"Amy Klobuchar is the only one not talking about Amy Klobuchar

[pnwmom]

running for President in 2020. "

https://www.minnpost.com/national/2018/11/amy-klobuchar-is-the-only-one-not-talking-about-amy-klobuchar-running-for-president-in-2020/

That Klobuchar easily secured a third term in the U.S. Senate in last Tuesday’s midterm was no surprise. Also no surprise: that her victory would add to growing buzz about the Minnesota Democrat as a viable candidate for president in 2020.


Indeed, plenty of pundits from the Beltway to the Midwest touted Klobuchar’s performance on Tuesday night, arguing that her strong showing in urban, suburban, and rural areas — and in a deeply divided heartland state, no less — were an advantage that few other 2020 Democratic hopefuls could boast in making the case against a second term of Donald Trump.

That the blue map Barro tweeted out — a tantalizing image to a party still coming to grips with the loss of working-class white voters in the Midwest in 2016 — came on the heels of a breakout moment for Klobuchar in the high-profile hearings over Brett Kavanaugh and sexual assault only added lighter fuel to an already-burning fire of White House speculation around the senator.

To date, Klobuchar has remained predictably coy about any ambitions — rumored for years — beyond serving as Minnesota’s senior U.S. Senator. But for her and for several other possible 2020 candidates, last week’s midterm was the last fig leaf left to obscure an answer to the “are you running?” question. The next election on the calendar is now the all-important presidential one, and it appears that more people than ever are interested in Klobuchar’s answer to the big question.

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https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/about-amy

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar is the first woman elected to represent the State of Minnesota in the United States Senate. Throughout her public service, Senator Klobuchar has always embraced the values she learned growing up in Minnesota. Her grandfather worked 1500 feet underground in the iron ore mines of Northern Minnesota. Her father, Jim, was a newspaperman, and her mother, Rose, was an elementary school teacher who continued teaching until she was 70.

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Senator Klobuchar was the valedictorian of her Wayzata High School class. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. Her senior essay in college, published as the book "Uncovering the Dome," chronicles the 10-year-history behind the building of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome and is still used at colleges and universities across the country.

Senator Klobuchar is married to John Bessler, a native of Mankato, who attended Loyola High School and the University of Minnesota. Senator Klobuchar and John have a daughter, Abigail.

[Me.]

1. I'd Vote For Her

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3. I would too. eom

[Yavin4]

4. Sadly, a solid majority of White women won't vote for a woman.

Funny thing, if White women were not allowed to vote in 2016, we'd have a woman president.

[pnwmom]

6. More white women voted for D's this time around. Even the non-college white women

are starting to turn on him.

[JaneQPublic]

7. True in 2016, but is it still the case?

I may be wrong, but it seemed one of the take-aways of the 2018 election was that suburban women (a.k.a "white women&quot demonstrated how fed up they were with Trump by voting for Dems.

And, of course, the big story out of the Dem wins was the huge number of women elected to office.

I guess we'd need to track down the demographics of 2018 voters to know fo sure.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. It's been true for every presidential election except for two since 1952.

[LakeSuperiorView]

13. You know what has been true since 1932, except for three presidential elections?

Votes for Democratic candidates. No other state can claim more blue presidential results. Hawaii comes close, but they didn't vote before becoming a state in 1959. Deeply divided, my ass. California went red 9 times in the same span. Massachusetts voted 4 times for Reagan and Eisenhower. Hell, everyone liked Ike, he won all states. He would be spinning in his grave if he could see what the current crop of Republicans turned into.

Minnesota was the only state not to vote for Reagan in 84.

[jcgoldie]

2. She's awesome

She seems to me the most grounded and real person in politics today.

[Kahuna7]

5. I'm Team Klobuchar...

I think a Klobuchar/O'Rourke or Klobuchar/Brown would be hard to beat.

[3Hotdogs]

8. What was her position on Franken?

[pnwmom]

9. She didn't join the public calls for his resignation, but she spoke to him privately.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/amy-klobuchar-senate-al-franken-minnesota/index.html

Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who serves in the Senate representing Minnesota with Al Franken, explained Friday that she didn't publicly ask Franken to resign this week because of their relationship.

"I had condemned his conduct early on when the first allegation was made," she told CNN's Dana Bash on "Inside Politics." "I felt I was in a different role as his colleague, that I'm someone that has worked with him for a long time, there's a lot of trust there, and I felt it was best to handle it in that way."

In a coordinated effort, female Democratic senators called for Franken's resignation in rapid fire Wednesday. Klobuchar did not join in that effort and said in a statement at the time that she spoke with him privately. By Wednesday evening, more than two dozen senators -- including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer -- had called for Franken's resignation.

[NewJeffCT]

10. I like her a lot

That said, I like a lot of leading Democrats who are "in the mix" for 2020. I've been on the "2020 candidate must have charisma" train for over 2 years now and I'd need to see more of her to judge her charisma on TV.

My mom is 74 years old and not very political (though she hates Trump) and she LOVES Amy Klobuchar.

[Alhena]

12. She's my preferred candidate if Beto doesn't run