Senator Amy Klobuchar was reelected in a landslide, defeating Republican state House of Representatives member Jim Newberger.

The candidate filing deadline was June 5, 2018, and the primary election was held on August 14, 2018.

[1] This is the last time that a Democratic candidate won a majority of Minnesota's counties in a statewide election.

Organizations State legislators Individuals Organizations Newspapers On August 24, MPR News hosted a debate between Amy Klobuchar and Jim Newberger at the Minnesota State Fair.

Klobuchar ran up huge margins in the state's population centers and trounced Newberger in the counties encompassing the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.