Rep. Angie Craig launches Senate run in Minnesota ahead of a competitive Democratic primary
Democratic Rep. Angie Craig announced Tuesday that she's running for the Senate in Minnesota, a long-expected campaign that sets up a crowded primary among Craig, the state's lieutenant governor and a former state legislative leader.
Democratic Rep. Angie Craig announced Tuesday that she's running for the Senate in Minnesota, a long-expected campaign that sets up a crowded primary among Craig, the state's lieutenant governor and a former state legislative leader.
In her announcement video, Craig criticized President Donald Trump for "trampling our rights and freedoms as he profits," Elon Musk as "an out-of-control, unelected billionaire trying to take control of our government and burn it to the ground" and "cowardly congressional Republicans."
"It's time to fight back. We've got to break through the chaos and take them head on," Craig says.
Craig frames herself as an underdog who went from growing up in a mobile home and working through college to defeating a Republican member of Congress, and she says she and her wife "fought like hell to be the parents of our four wonderful boys" when she lived in Tennessee.
"We’re proud Minnesotans — a state of fierce independence, freedom and community. People willing to take on the powerful and fight for what’s right," Craig says in her launch video. "It’s why I’m running for U.S. Senate: to listen, to fight for all of Minnesota and to win."
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