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Angie Craig: “I ran for Congress in 2016 because this kid from the trailer…”

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

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Congresswoman Angie Craig Discusses Key Issues and 2024 Election Strategy on Access to Democracy

Published | Video Starts at 28:37

And when I think about what is the country I want to see moving forward, Look, I want a country that's available to every single one of us. And that's why I ran for Congress in 2016 because this kid from the trailer park had been so fortunate in her life to work her way up to healthcare, manufacturing companies, to be able to marry my wife and raise our four sons. We had been so lucky over the years that my general feeling, Alan, was that this country was just not available to as many people as it had been to me. (28:37–28:55)

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