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Michelle Tafoya is a former NBC Sports sideline reporter who covered Sunday Night Football from 2011 to 2022, becoming one of the most prominent sideline reporters in sports broadcasting. She left sportscasting to pursue political involvement, serving as co-chair of Kendall Qualls' 2022 Minnesota gubernatorial campaign and later becoming a conservative political commentator. She is currently a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota.