Candidate profile: Trina Swanson in Minnesota’s 8th

The MN-8 race

Trina Swanson is running as a DFL candidate for U.S. House in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District. The general election is scheduled for Nov. 3, 2026, and the race is contested.

Nine candidates are listed in the contest: six with the DFL label, one with the Democrat label and two with the Republican label. Republican Peter Allen Stauber is the incumbent, meaning he currently holds the office.

No biography is on file for Swanson. There are also no documented policy positions or campaign finance figures for fundraising, spending or cash on hand. The same information fields are blank for each of the other eight candidates.

The candidates

• Wendell Robert Smith — DFL. Smith is a candidate in the contested MN-8 general election. No biography or documented policy positions are on file. Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand figures are also not on file.

• Trina Swanson — DFL. Swanson is a candidate in the contested MN-8 general election. No biography or documented policy positions are on file. Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand figures are also not on file.

• Emanuel Anastos — DFL. Anastos is a candidate in the contested MN-8 general election. No biography or documented policy positions are on file. Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand figures are also not on file.

• Cyle Cramer — DFL. Cramer is a candidate in the contested MN-8 general election. No biography or documented policy positions are on file. Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand figures are also not on file.

• Luke Gulbranson — Democrat. Gulbranson is a candidate in the contested MN-8 general election. No biography or documented policy positions are on file. Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand figures are also not on file.

• Anthony David Mr. Hamilton — Republican. Hamilton is a candidate in the contested MN-8 general election. No biography or documented policy positions are on file. Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand figures are also not on file.

• John-paul 2183436597 Mcbride — DFL. Mcbride is a candidate in the contested MN-8 general election. No biography or documented policy positions are on file. Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand figures are also not on file.

• Chad Mckenna — DFL. Mckenna is a candidate in the contested MN-8 general election. No biography or documented policy positions are on file. Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand figures are also not on file.

• Peter Allen Stauber — Republican. Stauber is the incumbent and a candidate in the contested MN-8 general election. No biography or documented policy positions are on file. Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand figures are also not on file.

Policy and campaign finance

None of the nine candidates has a documented policy position on file. A party label identifies how a candidate is listed in the race, but it does not establish that candidate’s position on a particular issue.

The campaign finance categories for every candidate are also blank. No figures are on file for money raised, money spent or cash on hand for Smith, Swanson, Anastos, Cramer, Gulbranson, Hamilton, Mcbride, Mckenna or Stauber.

These categories measure different parts of campaign activity. Funds raised record incoming campaign money, funds spent record campaign expenditures, and cash on hand represents money retained by a campaign. No amounts are listed for comparison in this race.

Election timeline

The contest is part of Minnesota’s 2026 general election. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026.

The central process questions are whether the candidate field changes and whether biographies, policy positions or campaign finance figures are added before the election. Any such updates would give voters more information about the people running, the issues they identify and their campaign activity. Until then, the official distinctions among the candidates are their names, party labels and Stauber’s status as the incumbent.