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Angie Craig: “A seat Republicans had held for almost a quarter of a…”

Featuring: Angie Craig, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, 2nd Congressional District

Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy

Published May 3, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:56

And I've had to fight off $90 million in attack ads to win and hold the second district of Minnesota for four terms. A seat. A seat Republicans had held for almost a quarter of a century before we did this over the last decade. And ever since I got to Washington, I have not stopped fighting for the people I'm so grateful to represent. (05:56–06:05)

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Asserts that the congressional seat was held by Republicans for nearly 25 years before Angie Craig's tenure.

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“I've had to fight off $90 million in attack ads to win and hold the second district of Minnesota for four terms.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 05:39-05:50
“I fought to get [a glitch in the Affordable Care Act] fixed. And now over 5 million Americans have access to health insurance.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 06:25-06:32
“I wrote and passed the bill that caps the cost of insulin at $35 a month for America's seniors.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 06:48-06:57
“5 million bucks is apparently the going rate for a CEO to get a private dinner with the president to speak, to, advocate for special favors.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 17:15-17:27
“We outperformed virtually every Democrat in Minnesota.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 02:54-03:05
“We won our light blue district by nearly 14 points.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 03:29-03:34
“I worked my way up in business, eventually helping to lead a major Minnesota manufacturing company, St. Jude Medical.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 04:58-05:08
“I fought... to expand access to rural mental health, to protect our historic investments in climate change, in the Inflation Reduction act.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 06:25-07:54
“I fought to hold drug traffickers and social media platforms accountable [for the death of Devin Noring].”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 07:15-07:30
“As the top Democrat on the House Ag Committee... I fought for family, farmers, producers and greater Minnesota.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 07:35-07:46
“We deserve better than a Republican Party hell bent on cutting our hard earned Social Security and health care.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 08:50-08:59
“We deserve better than an administration that considers climate change a hoax, that rolls back protections for clean air and water.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 09:06-09:15
“We certainly deserve better... than an administration that arrests, judges and deports people without due process in our country.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 09:29-09:44
“We deserve better than across the board tariffs, jacking up costs for family, farmers, small businesses.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 09:55-10:03
“It's Canada who's our friend and Russia who's our enemy in this time of chaos and uncertainty.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 10:11-10:27
“I'm for creating jobs, lowering cost, and a tax system that helps the middle class, not the most wealthy among us.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 12:45-12:55
“Health care and child care should be more affordable. Housing should be more affordable.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 13:18-13:31
“We should be streamlining burdensome regulation so that life is just a little bit easier for small businesses.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 13:44-13:52
“Working folks, the backbone of the middle class, have been screwed in this country for a long time, and that's got to change.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 13:53-14:03
“Signing the Pro act into law to protect the right to organize and collectively bargain in this country.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 14:24-14:33
“We need common sense gun safety so that Americans don't have to worry about their loved ones being killed on our streets or in our schools.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 14:55-15:07
“Yes, we need to secure the southern border, but we also need a big gate that encourages immigrants that have always made our economy and our…”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 15:07-15:19
“We also need a path to citizenship for folks here who worked hard, paid their bills, their taxes, and served in our nation's military.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 15:23-15:36
“We have to tackle the fentanyl epidemic which is taking the lives of too many of our friends and family members and neighbors.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 15:39-15:49
“That means giving local law enforcement the resources they need in our communities.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 15:48-15:55
“We've got to be willing to take on the big tech companies that are allowing this poison to be sold on their platforms.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 16:01-16:10
“We need to hold the platforms, those monopolies, accountable and address the mental health in our nation.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 16:09-16:26
“Keeping Americans safe also means keeping classified national security out of the damn group chat.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 16:32-16:41
“Donald Trump talks about draining the swamp, but all he's done is making the corruption 1,000 times worse.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 17:00-17:09
“We need to end Citizens United.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 17:47-17:50
“We need to close the revolving door between K Street and Congress and ban members of Congress from trading stock.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 17:53-18:17
“Let's ban the gerrymandering of congressional districts.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 18:18-18:23
“I'll always stand strongly for fundamental American freedoms, whether that's defending women's rights to control their own reproductive…”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 19:11-19:22
“In America, democracy has always been a team sport.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 21:52-21:58
“Minnesota, and now the rest of the country recognizes that love is love.”
Angie Craig Announces U.S. Senate Run in Minnesota with Focus on Healthcare, Economy, and Democracy | Uploaded May 3, 2025 | 22:55-23:02