Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedAug 24, 2026, 5:12 AM UTC
To election day72 days
Simulations200,000

Minnesota 7th District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running

Democrat
Erik Osberg
0.4%
Republican
Michelle Fischbach
99.6%
ForecastSafe R
Projected margin
R+32.2
80% range
R+46.1 to R+18.3
Partisan lean
R+36.0
Uncertainty multiplier
1.80×

The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.

How the estimate is built
Fundamentals 100.0%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
R+31.6
Blended
R+31.6
Similar-race shift
+1.5
Polling

No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.

Fundamentals
Partisan lean
R+36.0
Elasticity
0.95
Incumbency
−3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
−0.9
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
R+33.1

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