Analysis: What we learned about Klobuchar 2020 this weekend
Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks at the Heartland Forum in Storm Lake, Iowa, on Saturday.
As Klobuchar walked away, Becca overheard her father get asked why a presidential candidate from Minnesota had come to their town.Klobuchar's unfussy, neighborly approach to retail politics, which has powered her to three landslide victories in a swing state, is being adapted to early-voting primary states.
Carter's upset 1976 victory began with a win in the first Iowa caucuses; Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign, repeatedly written off, was rescued by a strong second place in New Hampshire after a weak showing in Iowa. But Iowa is a do-or-die state for Klobuchar. She's been seen as a prospective presidential candidate for years — her memoirKlobuchar has cultivated a sort of anti-star power, as if it would be wrong for a crowd to start venerating her.
“I was the lead on an opioid bill along with three other senators, including [Rhode Island Sen.] Sheldon Whitehouse — the original opioid bill, that saw this as the hazard it was, four years ago,” Klobuchar said. “Everyone was patting us on our heads, and telling Sheldon and me, 'Oh, how nice, you're working on this.' And then they realized how bad it was.”
“If you haven't noticed, by just looking across the border, I can win,” Klobuchar told voters in Sioux City. In 2018, Klobuchar said, she “did the same thing I do all the time,” going “not just where it's comfortable, but where it's uncomfortable,” to help Democrats sweep the state.
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