The congresswoman had focused her campaign on reproductive rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
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Representative Angie Craig focused much of her campaign on safeguarding reproductive rights.
Representative Angie Craig, the Minnesota congresswoman whose victory helped Democrats create a House majority in 2018, defeated Tyler Kistner, a Republican and former Marine, according to The Associated Press.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in June to strike down the constitutional right to an abortion, Ms. Craig focused much of her campaign on safeguarding reproductive rights, betting that the message would resonate with the independent voters and conservative-leaning in the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities. Her campaign criticized Mr. Kistner about comments he made in a 2020 Republican primary stating that he was “100 percent pro-life.”
That gamble appeared to pay off on Tuesday night.
Ms. Craig’s victory was also likely made possible, at least in part, by her pre-emptive efforts to defang G.O.P. attacks suggesting that she was insufficiently supportive of law enforcement. Ms. Craig, a plain-spoken former communications executive, played up the endorsement of a local county sheriff and made stops at events with police officers a fixture of her campaign schedule.
It was her second narrow victory against Mr. Kistner, whom she defeated by two percentage points in 2020.
Mr. Kistner, who served nine years as an officer in the Marine Corps, sought to hammer Ms. Craig on the economy, with advertisements claiming that Democratic policies had hurt his young family’s pocketbook.
Source: nytimes.com
