Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday announced that she’s running for president in 2020, becoming the fifth U. S. senator to jump into the…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday announced that she’s running for president in 2020, becoming the fifth U. S. senator to jump into the race to defeat President Trump.
Standing on a snow-covered stage in Boom Island Park in Minneapolis, where the temperatures had dipped to a freezing 14 degrees, Klobuchar announced her candidacy while invoking her family’s deep roots in the Midwest, a key battleground for Democrats as they look to rebuild their blue wall in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
“Today on an island in the middle of the mighty Mississippi… I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, as the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, as the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the state of Minnesota, to announce my candidacy for president of the United States, » Klobuchar announced to a cheering crowd of onlookers.
The three-term senator laid out her vision for the country in a number of policy areas. She pledged to « take on the gun lobby, » root out corporate money in politics, commit to environmentally friendly policies, lower health care costs, restore voting rights and implement privacy protection laws.
She did not mention Trump by name, but alluded to him when she declared the country deserved better than « foreign policy by tweet. »
« Our sense of community is fracturing across our nation, warn down by the petty and vicious nature of our politics, » she said.
