{"id":21404,"date":"2026-04-16T02:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/angie-craig-builds-fundraising-lead-in-minnesota-senate-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:31:37","slug":"angie-craig-builds-fundraising-lead-in-minnesota-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/angie-craig-builds-fundraising-lead-in-minnesota-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Angie Craig builds fundraising lead in Minnesota Senate primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) holds an edge over Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in fundraising, well ahead of the state\u2019s Democratic primary in August.<\/p>\n<p>Craig raised $2.5 million in the first quarter of the year, according to Federal Elections Commission filings, besting Flanagan\u2019s haul of $1.3 million. That sets up Craig with $4.8 million in cash on hand, more than the $1.1 million Flanagan has in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan\u2019s filing also shows her burning money at a rapid rate: Her campaign spent more than $1 million in the first quarter, nearly as much as it raised.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign contributions are poised to become a wedge issue in the competitive Democratic primary. Flanagan has attacked Craig for accepting contributions from corporate PACs and has pledged not to take their money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) holds an edge over Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in fundraising, well ahead of the state\u2019s Democratic primary in August. Craig raised $2.5 million in the first quarter of the year, according to Federal Elections Commission filings, besting Flanagan\u2019s haul of $1.3 million. That sets up Craig with $4.8 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}