Angie Craig

Angie Craig was born in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, in 1972. Craig earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Memphis in 1994. She previously worked as a journalist and then as an executive at a healthcare company. She was also a precinct chair for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in Senate District 51.[1][2][3]

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Campaign websiteCraig's campaign website stated the following:Fighting for What's RightTAKING ON DONALD TRUMP, HATEFUL DISCRIMINATION, AND THE DRUG COMPANIESAngie Craig is the only one tough enough to stand up to Donald Trump and the special interests — and fight for what’s right. Craig fought against hateful, discriminatory laws, winning a landmark case to adopt her son and ensuring the right for a lesbian to adopt a child. Craig took on Trump’s chaos and corruption – voting to impeach him twice – and took on drug companies, capping insulin at $35 a month. Craig’s leading the fight against Trump’s attempt to take away Minnesotans’ health care, rollback our rights, and increase our costs.Click here to learn more. Minnesota Democratic primary voters need to see (on broadcast, streaming and digital) that Peggy Flanagan isn’t being truthful in her campaign. She claims she doesn’t take money from corporate PACs but as the leader of a special interest group, she accepted millions of dollars from corporations, including the oil industry, big tobacco, big pharma and even a private prison company operating ICE detention centers helping ICE separate families, including Liam Ramos’ family. Now, that special interest group is spending millions of corporate dollars running misleading ads to get Flanagan elected.It is important that Minnesota Democratic Primary voters hear from real Minnesotans expressing their disappointment in Peggy Flanagan’s dishonesty.Rebuilding and Strengthening Minnesota's Middle ClassThe Middle Class built this country. It’s about time someone had their backProtecting our hard-earned Social Security benefitsLowering the cost of: health care, housing, childcare, groceries and education Supporting Union Labor Supporting Family Farms and Investing in Rural AmericaSince flipping a Republican held seat in 2018, Angie has been laser focused on the issues keeping Minnesotans up at night and has fought to lower the cost of basic needs like: health care, housing, childcare, groceries and education. Angie is the Democrat who took on the drug companies and wrote the bill to cap insulin to $35 for Seniors. Angie voted to block Trump’s tariffs and to take away his unchecked power to impose tariffs with no oversight from Congress. People deserve the benefits they’ve paid into their entire lives – Angie wrote the bill to eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits for seniors and has fought tooth and nail against cuts to Social Security.Angie knows it’s long overdue that we implement a tax system that helps the middle class – not the wealthiest among us – and is focused on creating good-paying jobs. As a supporter of the PRO Act and staunch advocate for protecting Minnesota workers, Angie has always stood with labor and will in the Senate. Every American deserves to retire with dignity after a lifetime of hard work, and that’s why Angie has and always will oppose efforts to privatize, jeopardize or make cuts to Social Security and Medicare. As the granddaughter of a farm foreman who was forced off the farm during the 80s farm crisis, Angie knows what it means for a farmer and their family to lose their way of life. Every day, Angie works to ensure the Minnesota family farmers and producers who feed, clothe and fuel the world have a seat at the table. From writing the bill to allow the year-round sale of E-15; to working across the aisle to pass her bill that would create a White House Office of Rural Prosperity; to voting for $100 million for broadband expansion in Minnesota; to fighting Donald Trump’s cuts to SNAP, Angie has always been committed to investing in Minnesota’s rural communities.Protecting our Democracy and FreedomsA proven fighter with a track record of standing up to TrumpVoting Rights Reproductive Rights Environmental Protections LGBTQ+ rights Comprehensive Immigration Reform These are not normal times. We need someone now, more than ever, who can stand up to Donald Trump and Republican extremists. Angie has defended our rights and fought Trump’s attacks on our democracy by always doing what is right: voting to impeach him not once, but twice. We need a fighter like Angie in the Senate who will: support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act so everyone’s voice can be heard; stand up to attacks on the rule of law; work to restore Roe v. Wade, so every woman’s fundamental freedoms are protected; pass meaningful legislation that will help preserve our air and water so future generations can thrive. Angie is ready on day one to shake up the Senate and get things done. With threats to the LGBTQ+ community on the rise, Angie supports building a country where everyone can live with dignity and respect. For the first three years of her son’s life, Angie faced legal battles, with a judge even writing that having two moms was not in the “best interests” of any child. But Angie fought like hell – and won that case – setting a legal precedent to help more LGBTQ+ parents secure the right to have a family. Angie also believes that we must uphold the rule of law and ensure people receive due process. Like most Minnesotans, she knows we need an immigration system that protects our borders and rewards those who work hard, pay taxes or serve in the military – because she understands that immigration is critical to our country’s economic prosperity. Angie is fighting to pass comprehensive immigration reform that creates a legal immigration system and asylum processes that are fast, fair, and final and provides a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers.Fighting and Fixing Corruption in WashingtonLet’s take the status quo head on Ban Members of Congress from trading stocks and becoming lobbyists Overturn Citizens United End Gerrymandering Impose term limits Angie believes elected officials should be in Washington to serve their constituents, not party leaders or special interests. While in Congress, Angie has been working to clean up Washington and ensure elected leaders are held accountable. From leading the charge in the House to ban Members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks; to pushing to impose a ban on former members of Congress from lobbying; to supporting campaign finance reform, like Ending Citizens United – Angie will stand up to the status quo in Washington.Angie thinks Members of Congress should not be able to pick who they represent and supports a national ban on gerrymandering. She is leading the charge for generational change by championing term limits.Keeping Our Communities Safe and Providing Opportunity to AllEveryone should feel safe in their community Combatting all forms of gun violence Battling the mental health crisis and fentanyl epidemic Supporting law enforcement and ensuring they have the resources they need Investing in public education As the mother of four sons, Angie knows there’s no higher responsibility elected officials have than protecting our children, whether it be from gun violence in our schools or on our streets. That’s why Angie supports common sense gun reform like universal background checks. Angie has voted to ban military-style assault weapons and passed a law to get guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. She knows being a responsible gun owner goes hand in hand with wanting to keep deadly weapons off our streets and out of our schools. Protecting our children and our communities also means combatting the mental health crisis in our country that’s leaving us angrier, lonelier and more divided – that’s why Angie is taking on the Big Tech companies that aren’t doing enough to protect people on their online platforms. Angie is focused on tackling the fentanyl epidemic, which is taking the lives of far too many of our friends, family members and neighbors. That means giving local law enforcement the resources they need.And as the daughter and wife of an educator, Angie believes to her core that the best investment we can make in our future is in our kids. That means fully funding our public schools and giving students a range of opportunities after they graduate high school, including career skills, technical education and apprenticeship programs. It also means lowering the cost of education from daycare to college. It’s our job to build the skilled workforce we need to compete on the global stage and build a strong domestic economy. Angie is working to ensure every kid in Minnesota has a fair shot at their American Dream.— Angie Craig's campaign website (June 5, 2026)Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

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Campaign website

Craig's campaign website stated the following:

I’m running for Congress to build a Minnesota for all of us – where every member of every family is rewarded for their hard work with an outstanding education, the training or retraining for a good job, and a fair shot at a better life. I’ll never give up on the Minnesota and the America that we can create together.

Growing our Economy and Creating Jobs for Today and the Future

The economic recovery has not touched all families. For many, paychecks aren’t going up, while the cost of groceries, prescription drugs, education, and other household expenses continue to rise. We need leaders in Washington that will invest in and do more to create the right jobs, with better pay and make sure Americans have the tools to succeed in a 21st Century economy.

I’m ready to do just that. Over the past decade, I have worked to create good-paying jobs in Minnesota, with responsibility for a workforce of 16,000 employees at a major Minnesota manufacturing company.

It’s a mix of 21st century manufacturing and technical jobs, and small business entrepreneurship that we must continue to work to create in Minnesota. That means prioritizing investments in education and career skills, and reforming a system that too often benefits special interests, big corporations, and the wealthy.

To help the economy grow and families prosper, we must focus on supporting small businesses and entrepreneurship, invest in America, and invest in Americans.

Supporting small business growth and entrepreneurship

Washington should be in the business of rewarding entrepreneurship by making it easier for people to start and grow small businesses. In fact, I’m now an investor in a St. Paul start-up company called Structural.

Here’s what we can do from a policy point of view to help small businesses grow:

Make it easier to access capital and loans

Increase small businesses' access to technical resources and technology

Simplify regulations and taxes for companies with 20 or fewer employees

Increase tax deductions for start-up and healthcare costs

All of these measures will make it easier for America’s innovators to start and grow their small businesses while continuing to grow our economy.

Investing in America

Congress must invest in infrastructure revitalization by rebuilding our roads, highways, and bridges and increasing access to high-speed Internet – especially in rural areas. Not only will this create good-paying construction jobs in the short-term, experience has shown that public infrastructure investment stimulates private sector jobs growth.

In order to help stimulate private sector investment in infrastructure – like machinery, buildings, and factories – we must incentivize companies to bring their cash outside the United States back home. Billions of dollars in foreign earnings and capital are overseas – let’s make sure that money is invested in America.

We've got a lot of work to do in this country to upgrade our infrastructure, and I'll be a strong advocate for funding these projects. When it comes to approving projects, such as Enbridge, I've got a heck of a lot more trust in scientists who have spent their career studying these projects than I do in an approval process based on partisan politics.

Investing in Americans

American workers need to have the right skills for the high-paying, high-growth technical jobs of the 21stcentury. We can make sure of this by investing in workforce development initiatives and encouraging public-private partnerships in higher education as well as making vocational education a priority again in our public schools. When schools work with local employers to link training and education to the needs of the regional economy, students and employers win.

Our goal should to be for each student to receive the training necessary either through college, a technical degree, or apprenticeship program to be ready for a good-paying job. And we must be committed to continuous learning and job re-training as industries and technologies change. This requires a commitment to investing and encouraging partnerships between Minnesota companies and technical colleges.

Higher education and job training is only part of the equation. We must encourage companies to invest in their workforce by closing tax loopholes that encourage them to move American jobs overseas, and replacing them with tax credits for companies that hire American. Let’s reward those employers who create jobs in America.

Protecting America's Workers

Creating a good paying job for every American is only half the solution. We need to make sure that everyone can join the workforce and feel secure in their job. I'll fight to protect the rights of every worker to organize and collectively bargain. My wife and I have four sons and I saw how hard my mother worked to raise children on her own. We need a national paid family leave and earned sick and safe time policy. A lack of paid family leave disproportionately impacts women that have to care for family members and those with employers that don't provide maternity leave. We also have a child care availability and affordability crisis looming in many areas of this country and need to consider all possible solutions to addressing it. We need to continue our investment in an all of the above regional transportation strategy to make sure workers can get to their workplaces quickly and efficiently so they're more productive and can spend more time with their families.

Healthcare

If healthcare is not affordable, it is not accessible. I know that firsthand. I grew up for a portion of my childhood without health insurance. I still remember the box of bills that sat on our kitchen table when my little sister had a medical issue. I also spent more than 20 years working in two healthcare manufacturing companies, and at one I oversaw our employer-sponsored health plans in many countries.

We must work to repair our healthcare system, starting with immediate fixes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and work toward universal health coverage with a focus on prevention and reducing costs, especially for prescription drugs.

Many families, particularly those who are self-employed as small business owners and family farmers, cannot afford the healthcare available in the individual marketplace, but Washington has done nothing to help. One way to address the lack of choice and competition in the insurance marketplace is to open up Medicare for a buy-in to compete with large insurance companies. Congress needs to work across the aisle immediately to stabilize healthcare costs for these families who have little choice in their regions.

We can do all of this without giving up the good things that have come from the ACA. Current law has eliminated the penalty for pre-existing conditions, ended lifetime limits, allowed young adults to remain on their parent’s insurance, and given tens of millions of Americans access to healthcare who didn’t have it before.

To stabilize the market place, it’s critical that we reauthorize and make permanent a federal reinsurance program that does not shortchange other current programs. We must provide a long-term outlook for cost reduction subsidies. We also must rein in out-of-control costs in the pharmaceutical industry. We can start by making pharma compete by negotiating with Medicare and ensure that generic drugs are important part of the healthcare mix. We must make medical pricing more transparent, incentivize preventative care, and move away from a fee-for-service healthcare system if we are serious about reducing the cost of healthcare.

There are many specific policy ideas emerging to accomplish the goal of moving to universal healthcare and we should consider each as to whether it brings us closer to making sure every family has healthcare they can afford. It’s time to stop playing politics with people’s lives and work on a bipartisan basis.

The Opioid Epidemic

Our country is confronting one of the largest public health threats since the onset of the AIDS epidemic. The opioid epidemic now claims more lives every year than car accidents or gun violence – nationwide, over 33,000 people died from opioid or heroin overdoses in 2015 alone.

The Second Congressional District is home to some exceptional local leaders in the fight against this epidemic. The Shakopee Police Department and the Scott County Board have rolled out programs that focus on rehabilitation and recovery rather than punishment and incarceration. Whether it’s a new drug court program, treatment center, lifesaving medication for first responders, or critical new research, all these efforts have something in common: they require resources and funding. That’s how our leaders in Washington can and should help.

This epidemic has not escaped our own family. One of our sons is adopted and his birth mother died over a decade ago of an overdose. I have promised him and many other families in the district to fight like hell to address these issues.

When I’m elected to Congress, I will work to expand the funding allocated in the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). This bipartisan bill allows the federal government to provide states with grants to fund a variety of programs aimed at curbing prescription opioid and heroin abuse. I also will support the Addiction Recovery for Rural Communities (ARRC) Act, a bill to help rural communities fight the opioid epidemic. I’ll also work to take on the issues directly that have helped enable this national emergency, such as prescribing patterns and the marketing of drugs in this nation.

High-Quality Public Education, Career Training and Affordable College

Education and career training are the keys to securing a strong economic future for families in Minnesota. And as the proud wife of a former teacher and mother of four sons – three in college or trade school and one at Rosemount High School – I understand the importance of a great education for all children.

When I’m elected to Congress, I’ll prioritize funding for public education and ensure that our teachers have access to the resources they need to be successful.

We must ensure that early childhood education is a priority, including high-quality child care and pre-K for kids from birth to age 5, to ensure our children start kindergarten ready to succeed. This is essential to our kids' futures and to the strengthening our state's economy.

We must also stabilize funding for K-12 education and ensure that career training and vocational education is a priority again in this country. College is not right for every child, and students need to be supported to understand that there are other career options.

It’s critical that we fully fund special education so that every child has the resources they need to learn and grow. One of our sons has learning challenges, and I’ve seen firsthand the heroes in our education system who help him be successful. I’ve also seen what not funding special education at the 40% level the federal government promised has on school district budgets. We must do better.

We also must give our teachers the respect they deserve by protecting their right to organize and collectively bargain, and giving tax credits to those who spend their own money on classroom supplies.

Giving Teachers A Raise

Part of giving teachers the tools they need to succeed is making sure that teachers are paid fairly. We owe it to all of our children to make sure that we’re attracting the best and the brightest to education today to help build and shape the best and the brightest of tomorrow. When we raise teacher pay, we can recruit, and keep, the best possible teachers for our children.

It’s not enough, though, to just tell cash-strapped schools and districts that they need to pay their teachers more. We need to make sure that they have the resources to do so. When I go to Congress, I’ll work to end the carried interest loophole, a tax policy that allows hedge fund and private equity managers to misrepresent earned income as capital gains, letting them pay a lower tax rate. We can send that nearly $16 billion back to the states to help them raise wages for all of our teachers.

Cost of college and career training

One of the biggest issues facing families is the nearly prohibitive cost of higher education. 70% of Minnesota’s college graduates have taken on some form of debt in order to complete their education, with the average price tag amounting to $31,579. That kind of debt causes our young people to delay major milestones, like buying a home or starting a family. Not only is it bad for our graduates – it’s bad for the economy.

In order to stay globally competitive, we must make higher education affordable and re-emphasize the range of career options available to young people, from colleges to technical degrees to apprenticeships. As a member of Congress, I would support legislation to make the first two years of post-secondary education free – whether it is technical education, earning an associate’s degree, or the first two-years of a bachelor’s degree. That’s how we build the workforce of the future and attract the industries of the future.

Caring for Our Veterans

We owe so much to the brave men and women who volunteer to serve our country in the armed forces. As a leader at a major Minnesota company, I set strategy for a program that put veterans to work in our company, and across the medical technology industry. Our nation needs to do all we can to encourage private industry to recruit, hire, mentor, and train veterans.

Many veterans face serious health problems related to their service. My family has not escaped this burden. My uncle died of cancer in his early 50s following his service in Vietnam – believed to be due to Agent Orange exposure. Younger veterans face similar heath challenges related to their work near toxic “burn pits.” When our soldiers return home, they deserve access to the best healthcare, treatment, and compensation that our nation can provide for their physical and mental health needs. But that isn’t what they're getting right now.

An audit of the VA found that more than 120,000 veterans waited at least 90 days for healthcare appointments or never received appointments at all. More than 82,000 veterans were still waiting for the VA to evaluate their claims for service-connected disability compensation more than 125 days after filing. The VA in Minneapolis provides important services to those who have served our nation, but we need to upgrade the entire system to improve the care our veterans receive and especially alleviate the long wait times for evaluation of benefits and services.

We must be there for our veterans for life. They've been there for us.

Protecting the Environment & Slowing the Pace of Climate Change

There’s no denying it – climate change is happening and we have to address it now. In Minnesota, we’ve already seen milder winters, heat waves, droughts, and floods.

Climate change is a threat to our environment and the health and safety of all Americans. But it also presents us with a great opportunity to create economic growth through smart public policies. We must continue to encourage growth in the renewable energy sector, and become a world leader in innovation. America led the world in creating and adapting new technologies in the 20th century - let’s make sure we continue that trend by leading the global green economy.

Our approach to addressing climate change doesn’t need to be onerous. We can lower our carbon emissions, build an energy infrastructure that relies less on fossil fuels, and attract and advance the industries of the future by looking for innovative solutions on climate change. If we invest in emerging energy industries we can create good jobs and get back on track as a global leader in our new energy economy. I look forward to working on a bipartisan basis to pass common sense initiatives, like instituting a carbon fee and dividend program to reduce our nation’s reliance on fossil fuels through market-based solutions.

National Security

We need a smart and tough foreign policy agenda that protects the United States and at the same time preserves the shared American values of privacy, liberty, and diversity.

We should equip our military personnel with the 21st century tools they need to defend our nation as well as eliminate terrorist threats as efficiently and safely as possible. We must support the use of innovative technologies, update and improve our cybersecurity infrastructure, and ensure that our military and intelligence officials have access to every tool they need to protect our nation.

We also must return to a diplomacy first mindset and work to restore the strong relationships with our allies. We’re at our safest and strongest when we’re leading a coalition of countries committed to peace and freedom.

Immigration and Border Security

Washington’s failure to pass bipartisan immigration reform is slowing our economy and weakening our nation. I support bipartisan immigration reform that invests in smart border security, provides a path to citizenship for DREAMERS and law-abiding immigrants, and keeps families together.

As long as our immigration system is broken, people will continue to work around it. It’s clear that too many members of Congress are more interested in scoring points with their base than doing the sensible and common sense thing for our economy and our country. Industries such as agriculture and technology are starved for workers, and we must support smart immigration policies that help.

It's critical that Congress takes action to pass an immediate fix to Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA). These are hardworking Minnesotans who serve in our military, graduate from our schools and contribute to our economy. In addition, the development of a path to citizenship for law-abiding immigrants would allow everyone to contribute and pay taxes, as well as pay into Medicare and Social Security.

We should immediately reunite any families who remain separated at the border without requiring children to remain in federal detention. Also, the U.S. should rejoin the international community and comply with international law by again allowing properly filed asylum claims to proceed in a timely and orderly fashion.

I support investing in smart border security. That includes technology such as drones, sonar and radar. I do not believe the answer to fixing our immigration system is abolishing ICE. They play an important role in stopping drugs and human trafficking. Let me also be clear that all people who commit crimes, regardless of their immigration status, should go to jail. No one wants criminals to go free, no matter what kind of outlandish attacks get lobbed at me.

Many of us are descended from immigrants, and we need immigrants for continued economic growth. The history of and promise of this country is that it will always be open to those who seek a better life, and are willing to work hard and help America grow in the process. In Congress, I will support policies that will continue to make this a reality.

Protecting Minnesota’s Seniors

When Medicare and Social Security were enacted, they lifted a generation of seniors out of poverty. Since then they’ve been a promise we’ve kept to each succeeding generation, allowing Americans to retire with dignity. That’s why I oppose any changes that would cut, privatize, or jeopardize these programs.

We should look for ways to strengthen both programs, instead of using the retirement of millions of Americans as a political football. This includes allowing Medicare to negotiate for the best prices on prescription drugs, eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse of both programs, and shoring up their funding – even if it requires asking millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share.

In addition, we must also do more to prevent elder abuse. Altogether, the Minnesota Department of Human Services receives nearly 1,000 reports of elder abuse every week. Too often, those closest to vulnerable adults are the ones taking advantage of them, causing victims to hesitate before taking action. As leaders, we must do what we can to empower social workers, caretakers, and seniors themselves to identify, prevent, report, and end this abuse.

Finally, we must combat the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. In order to start to combat the high cost of prescription drugs, we must allow Medicare to negotiate with phar