Angie Craig


Angela Dawn Craig is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for since 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, she defeated incumbent Republican Jason Lewis in the 2018 election. The district includes most of the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities, such as Burnsville, Eagan, Inver Grove Heights, Apple Valley and Savage.

Early life and career

Craig was born in West Helena, Arkansas, in 1972. She graduated from Nettleton High School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Memphis.
After college, Craig interned at The Commercial Appeal and became a full-time reporter. She moved to New London, Minnesota, and worked at St. Jude Medical in human resources and communications from 2005 through 2017.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2016 general election

In the 2016 elections, Craig ran for the United States House of Representatives in. She announced her candidacy before Republican incumbent John Kline announced his retirement. She faced no opposition in the Democratic primary. In the general election, she faced former conservative talk show host Jason Lewis. She lost by fewer than 7,000 votes.

2018 general election

Craig sought a rematch with Lewis in the 2018 elections. As in 2016, Craig ran unopposed in the Democratic primary. She defeated Lewis, becoming the first openly lesbian mother to be elected to Congress, the first woman to be elected in Minnesota's 2nd district, and the first openly gay person elected to Congress from Minnesota. Craig received 52.6% of the vote, winning three of the six counties in the district.
When she took office in January 2019, she became the first Democrat to represent the 2nd since it assumed its current configuration as a south suburban district in 2003.

Tenure

According to the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, Craig held a Bipartisan Index Score of 0.3 in the 116th United States Congress for 2019, which placed her 114th out of 435 members. Based on FiveThirtyEight's congressional vote tracker at ABC News, Craig voted with Donald Trump's stated public policy positions 5.5% of the time, which ranked her below average in the 116th United States Congress when predictive scoring is used.

Committee assignments

Personal life

Craig lives in Eagan, Minnesota. She and her wife, Cheryl Greene, have four children.