DFL, GOP angle for 2020 election edge after Legislature’s session

But issues always matter, said Kenza Hadj-Moussa, spokeswoman for the progressive group TakeAction Minnesota. She hopes voters noticed that the DFL House was “extremely responsive to the needs in people’s lives,” including the cost of insulin, paid leave and driver’s licenses for immigrants.

She also sees an emerging concern that could mobilize voters here and across the nation: new state efforts to ban abortions that have “really awakened a lot of people.”