For Immediate Release: May 6, 2025
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Lt. Governor Flanagan Releases Kickoff Campaign Video, Introducing Herself as the Leader for This Moment
Touts Hard Fought Economic Wins She Delivered for Minnesotans, Statewide Electability; Says “The Time For Excuses Is Past”
ST. LOUIS PARK, MN [5/6/25] — Today, U.S. Senate candidate Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan released a campaign kickoff video, laying out her background as a decades-long fighter for kids and families, leaning heavily into the economic wins and stability she has delivered both in and out of elected office. Flanagan, the only candidate who has been elected statewide, has a 30-point lead in early polling.
In the video, Flanagan talks about her own life story as a kid who feared the bottom could fall out at any time and how she and her mom made it into the middle class thanks to federal programs like Medicaid, public housing, and SNAP. As she raises her own daughter, Flanagan understands how critical pocketbook issues are to Minnesotans’ everyday lives. That’s why she took on the hard fought battles to improve the lives of families and kids through paid family medical leave and raising the minimum wage. Flanagan understands that at a time when Trump and his billionaire henchmen are ransacking our government and making life more expensive for all of us, Minnesotans need a proven fighter to stay true to our values.
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A loud, clear voice.
That’s what my Ojibwe name means — and it’s core to who I am.
So, I’m going to be loud and clear about what’s at stake right now.
Trump and his allies are ransacking our government to give more handouts to corporations and billionaires.
Taking money out of our pockets to line their own.
They’re starting mindless trade wars that make our prices skyrocket and devastate our farmers and small businesses.
They’re wrecking our savings, destroying Social Security, and gutting our healthcare.
And I believe people are waking up.
A lot of Americans are feeling like the bottom could fall out at any moment.
I know what that’s like.
I was born and raised here in Minnesota by a hardworking single mom. Public schools, public housing, Medicaid, and our deep faith helped us to get by.
Now I’m raising my own daughter, and I know that it’s still too hard for too many Minnesotans to get ahead.
It’s why I’ve spent my entire career fighting for kids and families, from the Children’s Defense Fund, to Wellstone Action, to serving in public office.
And I’m running a different kind of campaign.
Because the time for excuses is past.
We need leaders who actually know how regular people live and have the political courage to actually help them.
Congress lowering the price of ten prescription drugs is great…but why not make Big Pharma lower the price of all of them?
From affordable healthcare to reproductive freedom, we’ll never get what we don’t fight for.
And I know about winning tough fights.
That’s how we raised the minimum wage in Minnesota.
And it’s how we won two, hard-fought statewide campaigns.
And in this fight, it’s all of us versus the extremist billionaires — and I’m betting on us.
Because when the people speak out with a loud, clear voice together, there’s nothing—and no one—that can stop us.