Dan's post: https://left.mn/2026/03/is-angie-craig-really-changing-her-political-ways
It speaks for itself, and expresses a more favorable view of Peggy Flanagan over Craig as the other candidate for the open seat; an opinion Crabgrass shares.
A likely scenario would be Flanagan winning the primary despite Craig having tons more money to invest in the Craig candicacy; Amy winning Gov., and appointing Craig to the balance of the then vacated Amy seat. Both into the Senate that way.
I have a worry about Craig which is fleshed out by https://www.trackaipac.com/congress at its Minnesota Congressional membership segment. Only one other Rep or Senator has gotten more AIPAC money than Craig, that being Republican Emmer.
Republican House wip, Emmer PAC money = $784,132, Craig PAC money = $655,825 with both Senators having lower PAC figures then those two Reps. Total Israel lobby money, PAC included(?), same story but a reversal, Emmer = $1,200,356 - all Israel lobby sources, Craig = $2,613,266 - all Israel lobby sources; (Klobuchar ringing in atop all sources = $2,681,048). That worries me. One can check the detail, again, https://www.trackaipac.com/congress. For some reason, AIPAC is not required to register as an agent of a foreign government, under the statute that got Gen. Flynn hung out to dry. It's unfortunately inexact, but the numbers are sufficient to say Craig is getting a ton of campaign cash from Israel related interests, quibble where you may over one or a different source and its status.
Not liking the Bibi regime and its Gaza ethnic cleansing, that worries me. Not liking Zionism as a cause to confiscate land of others, and not liking a Greater Israel from the Med. to both sides of the Jordan, an ultimate goal of some, while in turn liking the Two State solution Bibi pisses on, I have reservations over Craig.
Flanagan is a progressive with Bernie and Liz Warren's endorsement. No contest.
But expect Craig to be the Klobuchar replacement in the Senate when Amy wins Governor. That's a bet I'd make with anybody, Amy the candidate after the primary, Amy the winner against some GOP stiff. Craig getting Amy's nod.
Not a progressive's dream, but as stated previously, Craig is honest and competent and a better candidate than others who might be suggested. Not ideal, but okay.
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AIPAC is itself, warts and all, but it is at the same time hiding from itself. Surely it will visit Congressional seat winners to say, "Remember when you needed money backing your candicacy," but when backing, now, they use subterfuge.
https://prospect.org/2026/02/06/aipac-coordinates-donors-in-illinois-house-primaries/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/aipac-pro-israel-super-pac-elections
It is shabby. It is AIPAC. They are anti-progressive.
Their candidates are not my candidates. May Peggy Flanagan trounce Angie Craig in Minnesota's primary, first because Flanagan is the progressive in the contest, but also because AIPAC has a bad taste, even when hiding whose money is being pumped toward a candicate's chances.
Again, Craig likely will be into the second seat, once vacated by a successful campaign for Governor, but it is very important that Flanagan trounce Craig because progressives are better fit to win and govern well as the people want.
Craig is a conservative. Not a Republican, but a conservative. That ilk is less in tune with what poll after poll shows regular people by subsrtantial majorities prefer.
So, Craig is conservative - in that DFL camp, and takes AIPAC assistance.
But with two frontrunners and a great likelihood of two Minnesota Senate seats being available after November election results are counted, it is a symbolic victory Flanagan is likely to gain, with Craig being her likely Senate companion, as both move with a hoped for Dem Senate post-election majority in both Houses so that schmucks like Mike Johnson, Stauber and Tom Emmer are put into the place best for them. The minority.
Opinions shall differ, but hopes are as they are. Craig will do okay.
But do not loose site of how really odious AIPAC and its leadership are. Supporting war crimes and war criminal ultra-Zionists and their guns and aircraft and aparthied.
I have been told that Angie Craig is amenable to the Two State Solution, but not by Craig herself. Most sensible people support two states as ultimately best.
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While in a Crabgrass defined perfect world, Amy would win and Flanagan would win, and then Amy would appoint Al Franken back into his Senate persona, indirectly telling K. Gillibrand to shove it up her me-too.
Not likely, but when you say perfect world, Al would be better than Angie. Brighter and more progressive. It may already be precast in concrete at the inner party level that one wins, the other gets the vacated new Governor's former place. But I really prefer Al.Gillibrand deserves it.