Outside groups flood Cravaack-Nolan race with cash

Minnesota’s 8th District race between incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack and Democrat Rick Nolan is among the nation's closes House races. It's also among the most expensive – No. 6 on a list of races ranked by spending by outside groups. About $5.6 million has been dumped in the race as of Monday, the Duluth News Tribune reports.

Author:
BMTN Staff
Updated:
Mar 8, 2018
Original:
Oct 19, 2012

Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District race between incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack and Democrat Rick Nolan is No. 6 on a list of races ranked by spending by outside groups — nearing $5.6 million as of Monday, the Duluth News Tribune reports.

(The site opensecrets.org, which tracks money in politics, ranked it as the No. 9 House race for outside money.)

The two had a lively debate this week, sparring over the economy and health care. The district, with a long history of left-leaning unions and right-leaning social conservatives, is traditionally a Democratic stronghold. But first-term member Cravaack surprised observers by beating longtime Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., two years ago.

A KSTP/SurveyUSA poll from earlier this month gave Nolan a 1-point lead, with 9 percent reporting that they are undecided:

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Republican Congressman Chip Cravaack and Democratic challenger Rick Nolan discussed mining regulations, health care, business growth, and the national debt at their debate in Cambridge. Not surprisingly, they found little common ground. The campaign is among the closest and most expensive House races in the country.

DFL challenger Rick Nolan has moved ahead of freshman Republican Chip Cravaack 50 percent to 43 percent, according to a new Star Tribune poll of likely voters in the Eighth Congressional District. Previous polls showed the race was a tossup.

DFL challenger Rick Nolan in a Duluth debate Tuesday called first-term incumbent Rep. Chip Cravaack, R-Minn., a "big spender" on defense who has neglected domestic issues including transportation, the Star Tribune reports. Cravaack advocated lower taxes and fewer regulations to create jobs, and he said Nolan is symbolic of an "antiquated" style of big government.

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The closure of the Georgia-Pacific hardboard plant in Duluth Friday afternoon leaves141 people out of work -- and campaigners for 8th Congressional District challenger Rick Nolan saying that Rep. Chip Cravaack didn't do enough to stop it.

Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack didn't wait long after Tuesday's primaries to take a shot at his Democratic opponent in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District. On Wednesday, Cravaack kicked off his re-election campaign by calling former Rep. Rick Nolan a "big-government guy," and Nolan called himself a "real true native of this district" in reference to his party's issue with Cravaack’s family moving to New Hampshire.

In one of the nation's closest congressional races, Rep. Chip Cravaack, R-Minn., has released his third-quarter fundraising numbers ahead of next week's filing deadine: $471,000, the most he has netted in a single quarter. Money is pouring into the race from outside the state.

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