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Former state Sen. Matt Little announces U.S. House campaign to replace Craig • Minnesota Reformer [1]
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Date: 2025-04-30
Former DFL state Sen. Matt Little is running for the U.S. House in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, the seat soon to be vacated by U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, who is running for Senate.
Little, a resident of New Market Township, is a personal injury attorney and the former mayor of Lakeville. He is the first candidate to officially launch a campaign for the 2nd District, though businessman and internet poster Mike Norton is also exploring a run. Other potential candidates include state Sens. Erin Maye Quade and Matt Klein; GOP state Sen. Eric Pratt; 2024 GOP nominee Joe Teirab; and 2020 and 2022 GOP nominee Tyler Kistner.
“I’m running for every underdog out there, for every person working their tail off, chasing the American Dream,” Little said in a press release announcing his candidacy. “But, unless Washington D.C. wakes up, that dream will never be reality for many people. Groceries, child care, health care, assisted living, you name it — people are struggling to figure out how to pay for basics and have something left over.”
Little served two terms as mayor of Lakeville, then represented the area in the state Senate from 2016 until 2020, when he lost his re-election race to Republican Sen. Zach Duckworth. As a senator, he worked on prescription drug affordability, infrastructure funding and expanding Metro Mobility to his district.
Little was known as a forward-thinking DFL campaigner, aggressively employing TikTok and other novel ways of reaching voters before it became commonplace.
The 2nd District, in the south Twin Cities metro, has been purple for the past decade, though Craig won by more than 13 percentage points in 2024. Craig has succeeded in the district as a moderate, splitting with the Democratic Party on issues like immigration and law enforcement.
In the press release announcing his candidacy, Little touted his investments in public safety as mayor of Lakeville. Once, as a city council member, he offered to donate half of his small salary — around $4,000 — to offset the cost of adding a staff position to the police department.
“I’m fighting for the health care my Mom needs, the retirement my Dad earned, and the future my daughter deserves,” Little said. “I’m running because if we don’t win back Congress, there will be nothing left of our country for my daughter to inherit.”
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