Composite 7.05 / 10, weighted per the Constitutional Weight Schedule.
✓ Clears the 700 bar, Author's Verdict: supported.
Clears the 700 support line at credit 708 (Sound band) with no severity flag, Author's Verdict: supported on the documented conduct.
No military service on record. Pre-congressional career in medical-device manufacturing (St. Jude Medical) and earlier as a newspaper journalist. Service to country is honored as context where present; it is never scored. Character is scored as conduct in the measures, not via any badge.
The 14 measures
Each measure is scored 0–10 against an anchored example, with a cited source. Hover/expand why? for the reasoning.
| # | Measure | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| M01 | Duty to Constitution & Rule of Law | 7 | why?No documented process-subversion conduct. Seated January 2019, could not and did not sign the December 2020 Texas v. Pennsylvania amicus; no fake-elector or election-overturning involvement. Constitutional-process votes (impeachment, certification) are NOT scored here per the contamination rule. The affirmative mark is her public call for President Biden to withdraw in July 2024, institutional honesty over party convenience. Solid upper-middle; no apex-tier sacrifice of office purely for the oath. [source] |
| M02 | Party Over Country | 8 | why?Consistently top-quartile to top-15% on the Lugar Center Bipartisan Index; ranked in the top 10% most bipartisan by the nonpartisan Common Ground Committee; over 80% of bills she co-sponsors carry bipartisan support. A documented, sustained pattern of working across the aisle rather than denying the other side a win. [source] |
| M03 | Persons of Equal Worth | 6 | why?No documented pattern of casting opponents or citizens as enemies who do not belong; campaign messaging centers 'decency, less polarization.' Held at solid-middle rather than higher for lack of a singular high-mark anchor (no documented defense of an opponent's personhood before her own crowd). No anti-belonging instances on record. [source] |
| M04 | Weaponization of Justice | 7 | why?No documented weaponization of state power against rivals or critics. The April 2025 GOP request for an ethics review (alleged misuse of official resources for town halls in other districts) is a partisan-initiated, unresolved, uncharged allegation, weighed as a minor appearance-concern, not a finding of abuse. No criterion-class conduct. [source] |
| M05 | Incitement / Anti-Belonging | 7 | why?Career rhetorical posture emphasizes decency and de-polarization; 'you've got to be willing to piss your friends off' and 'be honest about what I believe, even when it's hard to hear' read as principled candor, not enemy-making. No documented heated-rhetoric pattern. Upper-middle. [source] |
| M06 | Fiduciary Conduct | 6 | why?One open appearance-concern: an April 2025 letter from Minnesota Republicans (Emmer et al.) requesting an Ethics/House Administration review over alleged use of official resources to promote out-of-district town halls. Unresolved, uncharged, and partisan-initiated, weighed as an appearance-concern, not a finding. No sanction or violation on record. Solid-middle pending any resolution. [source] |
| M07 | Duty to Call Out | 8 | why?Met the higher active-duty standard: in July 2024 she was the first battleground-district House Democrat to publicly call on President Biden to end his re-election bid, at clear intra-party cost, calling out her own side when it was hard. Reinforced by her fourth-lowest party-line voting rate in the Democratic caucus (broke with the administration ~30% in 2023). Documented own-side accountability at cost. [source] |
| M08 | The Discretion Test | 6 | why?No documented self-dealing in the exercise of discretionary office powers; no scandal of preferential treatment for self or family on record. Held at solid-middle for absence of a documented high-mark discretion test rather than for any drag. [source] |
| M09 | The No-Camera Test | 7 | why?No documented private-versus-public contempt gap; the public decency posture and willingness to break with her own party suggest an off-camera record consistent with the on-camera one. No reported instances of a hidden contempt. [source] |
| M10 | Constituent-vs-Donor Vote | 7 | why?Documented constituent-facing posture: held in-person town halls (including in districts not her own) when colleagues declined; emphasizes responsiveness to median Minnesotans over interest-group scorecards. Upper-middle for genuine constituent engagement; no documented donor-capture pattern. [source] |
| M11 | Net-Worth Trajectory | 8 | why?Scored ONLY on office-attributable enrichment per the rule. No documented self-dealing, family payments, office-information trades, or foreign-government revenue. Raw wealth and ordinary disclosed assets are NOT penalized. No office-driven enrichment on record. [source] |
| M12 | Floor Decorum | 8 | why?Sustained institutional decorum and regular-order posture across four terms; recognized externally for bipartisan, institution-respecting work. The office-over-spectacle distinction is borne out by her cross-aisle co-sponsorship pattern and decency-framed public conduct. [source] |
| M13 | Lying & Misleading | 6 | why?No sustained documented-falsehood pattern on record; the Biden-withdrawal statement weighs as candor under pressure. Held at solid-middle for absence of a documented high-mark truth-telling anchor beyond that single instance rather than for any drag. [source] |
| M14 | Knowledge Depth | 7 | why?Substantive legislative focus in Health, Agriculture/Food, Taxation, and Crime/Law Enforcement; Agriculture Committee leadership work and a record weighted toward bipartisan, deliverable bills over messaging legislation. Substance over talking points; upper-middle. [source] |
Why not higher, the points withheld
The standard is the seat; the ceiling is a perfect 10. Every withheld point traces to documented conduct, weighed where the measures and attributes say it belongs, shown openly here, the same way the earned points are.
| Where | Documented conduct | Mitigation weighed |
|---|---|---|
| M06 | April 2025 request by Minnesota Republicans (Emmer, Finstad, Fischbach, Stauber) for an Ethics/House Administration review over alleged use of official resources to promote out-of-district town halls ↳ Fiduciary appearance-of-impropriety | Partisan-initiated, unresolved, uncharged; no sanction or violation found, weighed as an appearance-concern, not a finding |
| M04 | Same April 2025 ethics-review request as an appearance-concern touching use of official office for arguably campaign-adjacent activity ↳ Power-of-office appearance-concern | No abuse-of-power finding; town halls are core constituent-engagement conduct; unresolved allegation only |
| M03 | No singular high-mark anchor defending an opponent's personhood before her own crowd ↳ absence of high-mark belonging anchor (not a violation) | No anti-belonging instances either; decency-framed public posture |
| M13 | No documented high-mark truth-telling anchor beyond the 2024 Biden-withdrawal candor ↳ absence of sustained documented anchor (not a falsehood finding) | No documented-falsehood pattern on record |
The Four Pillars, worthy to be followed?
A separate axis from the 14 measures. The measures ask did their conduct meet the standard; the Pillars ask is this someone worthy to be elevated and followed at all. The two can diverge, when they do, the divergence is the finding.
| # | Pillar | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | Trust & Loyalty
| 7 | why?Attributes: Courage, Loyalty-to-oath-over-party, Steadiness. The July 2024 call for Biden to withdraw, first battleground Democrat to do so, evidences courage to break with her own side at cost. No documented drag toward Self-Interest or Collapse. Held at 7 for a solid, not extraordinary, sacrifice record. |
| II | Aspiration & Integrity
| 7 | why?Attributes: Conviction, Authenticity, Honesty-when-hard. 'Be honest about what I believe, even when it's hard to hear' and willingness to anger allies read as authentic conviction. Minor drag from the unresolved April 2025 ethics appearance-concern keeps it at 7 rather than higher. |
| III | Protection & Influence
| 7 | why?Attributes: Stewardship, Accountability, Constituent-Protection. Sustained bipartisan, deliverable legislating and in-person constituent engagement; no documented Exploitation. The ethics appearance-concern is an unresolved note, not an abuse. Solid. |
| IV | Legacy & Virtue
| 7 | why?Attributes: Integrity, Moral Courage, Decency. A bipartisan, de-polarization-framed record with documented willingness to break ranks. The contested April 2025 ethics request is the only real drag, unresolved and partisan-initiated. A record most would be content to see reflected; held at 7 for honest middles. |
| TOTAL: Moderate | 28/40 |
Total 28/40, Adequate-to-Sound. The pillars hold at an honest, even middle: a genuine bipartisan and own-side-accountability record, with one unresolved appearance-concern weighed but not converted into a finding.
What the Four Pillars are & the questions behind each →
In their own words
“As an elected leader, I feel a responsibility to be honest about what I believe, even when it's hard to hear.”
Statement calling on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, first battleground-district House Democrat to do so · CBS Minnesota · ACCOUNTABILITY · cite
“You've got to be willing to piss your friends off.”
Interview on winning back Midwestern voters and breaking with interest-group orthodoxy · TIME · PRINCIPLED · cite
“Minnesotans want more decency and less polarization in politics.”
Profile on her cross-aisle, de-polarization-framed approach · Minnesota Reformer · CIVIC · cite
Full personnel file
1. Identity
Angie Craig (born 1972). U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 2nd congressional district since January 2019 (Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party). Re-elected 2020, 2022, and 2024 (55.5%). Pre-congressional career in medical-device manufacturing (St. Jude Medical) and as a newspaper journalist. Announced a 2026 U.S. Senate candidacy to succeed retiring Sen. Tina Smith; in May 2026 opted out of the DFL endorsement process, proceeding directly to the primary ballot. Still a sitting member of the House at the time of this record.
2. Voting / Legislative Profile
Consistently ranked among the most bipartisan House members: top-quartile to top-15% on the Lugar Center / McCourt School Bipartisan Index, and top-10% by the nonpartisan Common Ground Committee. Among the highest rates of breaking with her own party in the Democratic caucus (fourth-lowest party-unity rate, ~70.6% with the Biden administration in 2023). Legislative focus weighted toward Health, Agriculture and Food, Taxation, and Crime/Law Enforcement, with leadership work on the Agriculture Committee. Over 80% of her co-sponsored bills carry bipartisan support. Policy positions are NOT scored in either direction per the framework.
3. Constitutional Moments
Seated January 2019, not present for and not a signatory to the December 2020 Texas v. Pennsylvania amicus; no fake-elector or election-overturning involvement. The defining own-side institutional moment is her July 2024 public call for President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, the first by a battleground-district House Democrat, institutional honesty placed above party convenience at intra-party cost. Constitutional-process votes (impeachment, certification) are recorded as the process working and are NOT scored on either side per the contamination rule.
4. Rhetoric & Discourse Profile
Public rhetorical posture is decency- and de-polarization-framed, paired with a willingness to deliver uncomfortable candor to her own side ("you've got to be willing to piss your friends off"; "be honest about what I believe, even when it's hard to hear"). No documented pattern of enemy-making or anti-belonging rhetoric on record. Net upper-middle: principled candor without a documented high-mark single anchor.
5. Fiduciary Profile
No documented office-attributable enrichment, no self-dealing, family payments, office-information trades, or foreign-government revenue on record; raw wealth is not penalized. The single open fiduciary appearance-concern is an April 2025 request by Minnesota Republicans for an Ethics/House Administration review over alleged use of official resources to promote town halls in other districts. Partisan-initiated, unresolved, and uncharged, weighed as an appearance-concern, not a finding. Note: she was the victim of a February 2023 physical assault in her D.C. apartment building (attacker convicted and sentenced); this is conduct done TO her and carries no scoring weight.
6. Severity-Class Conduct
No documented Severity-class conduct under any of the eight criteria. Seated 2019, no Texas v. Pennsylvania amicus signature, no fake-elector or election-overturning involvement (no Criterion 8). No documented pattern of sustained enemy-making or incitement (no Criterion 10). The only sustained concern is an unresolved, partisan-initiated ethics-review request, which does not rise to a flag. Flag count: zero.
7. What The Framework Says
An honest, solid record. The carrying strengths are real and documented: a sustained top-tier bipartisan index across four terms, and the willingness to call out her own side at cost, first battleground Democrat to ask President Biden to step aside. The standard records the one drag honestly: an unresolved, partisan- initiated April 2025 ethics-review request over use of official resources, weighed as an appearance-concern rather than converted into a finding. No process-subversion and no enemy-making conduct. Adequate-to-Sound, earned on conduct, not on policy or party.
8. Sources & Where To Look Deeper
Tier 1 (primary): Congress.gov member profile · House financial disclosures (Clerk)
Tier 2: Lugar Center / McCourt Bipartisan Index · GovTrack member report · CBS Minnesota, Biden withdrawal call
Research links: Congress.gov member profile · Ballotpedia · GovTrack · House financial disclosures · Wikipedia
Scores derive from the fixed Constitutional Weight Schedule. The bar does not move. Conduct, not party.