{"id":1976807,"date":"2023-07-18T21:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-angie-craig-maintains-strong-lead-in-swing-race-after-fundraising-haul\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:59:36","slug":"rep-angie-craig-maintains-strong-lead-in-swing-race-after-fundraising-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-angie-craig-maintains-strong-lead-in-swing-race-after-fundraising-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Angie Craig maintains commanding lead in competitive race following impressive fundraising success."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-angie-craig-maintains-strong-lead-in-swing-race-after-fundraising-haul%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1976807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rep. Angie Craig\u2062 Outraises Republican Challengers in \u200bBid for \u2064Fourth Term<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. \u200cAngie Craig \u2063(D-MN) is proving\u2064 to\u200d be\u2064 a\u2062 formidable force\u200d in \u200cthe upcoming 2024 election \u2062as\u2064 she outraises her Republican \u2062colleagues\u2062 vying to unseat \u2062her \u200bfrom \u2064the\u200c House\u200d swing\u200b seat.<\/p>\n<p>Running\u2063 for\u2064 reelection\u200b to secure \u2063a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-campaign-arm-stays-neutral-in-ohio-primary-to-challenge-sherrod-brown\/\" title=\"Senate GOP campaign arm remains neutral in Ohio primary to challenge Sherrod Brown.\">fourth \u2062term<\/a>, Craig&#8217;s\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-state-2024-race-shapes-up-as-candidates-vie-to-replace-katie-porter\/\" title=\"California's 2024 race intensifies as contenders compete for Katie Porter's seat.\">fundraising\u200c efforts<\/a> have\u2063 been impressive.\u2063 From\u200d April to \u2062the \u2062end\u200b of\u200b June, she \u2062brought in \u2062over\u2064 $840,000, leaving her with\u200b a substantial\u2062 cash on\u2064 hand of more\u200d than $1.1 \u2063million.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n \u2064 \u2063<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;History shows that most support for Republicans running \u200cagainst me\u2063 will come from large \u2063super \u2063PACs \u2014 \u200cnot\u2062 the candidates themselves,&#8221;\u200b Craig\u200c stated. &#8220;MAGA\u2064 Republican super PACs\u2063 spent $13.5 million against \u2063me \u2064in 2022 and \u200dseem \u200cpoised to do \u200dso again. But \u2062I&#8217;ve never \u2063been one\u2062 to back\u2062 down \u2063from \u200da\u200d fight. We\u200c will be ready for\u2063 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u2064Cook Political Report\u2064 has\u200b listed Craig&#8217;s seat as\u200b likely Democratic, \u2064but\u2064 that hasn&#8217;t \u2063deterred two GOP \u200dcandidates from\u200d stepping up\u200b to challenge her and potentially \u2062give House Republicans \u200ba larger \u200cmajority.\u200b However, \u2064their fundraising\u200d efforts have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-angie-craig-maintains-strong-lead-in-swing-race-after-fundraising-haul\/\" title=\"Rep. Angie Craig maintains commanding lead in competitive race following impressive fundraising success.\">fallen\u2063 short \u200ccompared<\/a> to Craig&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal\u2062 defense lawyer Tayler Rahm, who\u200c entered\u200d the\u2064 race just a \u2063month before the fundraising period\u200b ended, managed to bring\u200c in\u200b just under $51,500. His campaign \u200ccurrently has approximately\u200c $34,000 in cash, according\u200d to campaign\u200d filings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tayler \u200bis\u2064 a brand-new candidate \u2064to the field.\u2063 He&#8217;s only had 30 \u2064days,\u2063 but he certainly showed that he&#8217;s \u200cgot\u200c moxie and\u2064 momentum,&#8221;\u2062 said Rahm&#8217;s\u200b campaign manager Jill Vujovich-Laabs.<\/p>\n<p>The other GOP\u2064 candidate, Mike \u2062Murphy, \u200dformer mayor of Lexington, \u2062Minnesota, \u2063has faced \u2064difficulties in raising\u200b funds despite entering the race\u200c early\u200b on. From April to June, Murphy&#8217;s\u2063 fundraising efforts yielded\u200d less \u200dthan $4,000.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Angie \u200bCraig&#8217;s seat is one\u200d of the 37 \u2064Democratic \u200dseats targeted\u200b by the\u200d National Republican \u200cCongressional \u2062Committee in 2024. \u200bThe\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nobel-peace-prize-the-most-controversial-winners\/\" title=\"Nobel Peace Prize: The Most Controversial Winners\">committee released<\/a>\u200b a list \u2063in \u2064March, \u200dhighlighting 35 incumbents and two open\u200c seats as part \u200dof\u2063 the House GOP&#8217;s offensive \u2064strategy\u2064 for this\u2062 cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Among the targeted \u200dseats\u200d were\u200c some\u2063 of the top \u200cDemocratic \u2063spenders \u2063in the\u2063 midterm elections, with Craig&#8217;s\u200c race\u200c ranking fourth, attracting \u2062over\u2063 $20 million \u2063in spending from outside groups.<\/p>\n<p><a\u2063 href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click \u2063here<\/a> to read more from\u2062 The\u200b Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) is leading the fundraising race against her Republican opponents aiming to unseat her in the 2024 House swing seat election. In the April-June period, Craig collected $840,000, accumulating a total of $1.1 million for her fourth term reelection campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1976808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}