Klobuchar dropping out of 2020 race and endorsing Biden
Source: CBS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-tuesday-klobuchar-dropping-out-of-2020-race-and-endorsing-biden/
Senator Amy Klobuchar is suspending her presidential campaign and flying to Dallas to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden, a campaign spokesman said Monday.
The Minnesota Democrat will appear with Biden at a rally Monday night, just hours before voters in 14 states go to the polls on Super Tuesday.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-tuesday-klobuchar-dropping-out-of-2020-race-and-endorsing-biden/
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She's a day late, but maybe not a dollar short. Should she receive the nod, she'd bring some Midwest balance to the ticket, and she was NOT one of the Senators who publicly denounced Al Franken and publicly urged him to resign, so she would even be patalable to me (gasp!).
Buttigieg and Klobuchar now join the ranks of the realists, who (wisely) see no path to the presidential nomination. I have NO information, solid, inside, or otherwise to back up a little hunch of mine, but my suspicion is that if Joe Biden is elected president, he will announce at some point during his second or third year in office that he does not intend to run for a second term.
He will want to be VERY sure about his VP pick, and the vetting of the VP candidates (if it's Biden--no idea what Sanders or Warren would do) would be such a thorough vetting process that Obama's vetting of Biden in 2008 will seem like a Delta Airlines "How did you like your flight?" questionnaire by comparison.
I clearly remember being thoroughly trashed on DU the day I posted about Biden being Obama's pick about six hours before the announcement. About 50 angry posts with a combination of "what makes you so special?" "how do you know and the media doesn't?" "Well, I sure hope not!" "Did Obama call you personally to tell you?" and the ever-popular "LINK?!?!?!?!?!?" *
Ain't gonna do THAT again!
*This was 12 years ago, and I have posted about it before, so.......what happened was this: my nephew, who lives in northern Virginia, was 18 at the time, but was small for his age, and has Asian features (my brother's wife is from Japan). He used to practice swimming at a local indoor pool. He usually went very early in the morning. This day, the only other people at the pool were two female staffers of then-Senator Joe Biden. They knew, but weren't allowed to tell anyone. My nephew kept to himself, and the two women just assumed (wrongly!) that my nephew was a young immigrant and spoke no English. So they talked on about their boss's being picked as VP as if no one else were present. My nephew, despite his Asian features, was born and bred in the Washington area, and at the time, interning for the Lone Star Project, a Texas Democratic group with offices in Washington. So, not only was English his native language, but politics was his second language! He immediately reported to me and my brother when he got home, at about 8 AM that morning. I thought I'd give DU a thrill and let them know first. After getting nastily trashed for my efforts, I learned never to do THAT again! 
Just kidding. But it would be fun to hear any intel you may gather...
My brother's the one in Langley, not me.
Some of the intel I have "gathered" so far this year, is dark and troubling. I'm hoping none of it will concern any choices I have to make. So far, it hasn't, but this play hasn't even finished Act One yet.
I have spent some time with Obama, but not since he left office, and my contact with Biden hasn't gone farther than shaking his hand and chatting for less than 30 seconds at the Denver convention in 2008. Also, I'm betting that enough Senate staffers have read DU so as not to make that swimming pool mistake again!
FULL SPEED AHEAD JOE!!!! 
