Sen. Amy Klobuchar Announces Run For Minnesota Governor
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The No. 3 Senate Democrat joins a growing list of senators heading for the exits.
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) officially launched her candidacy for the Minnesota governorship on Thursday, instantly becoming the front-runner for the seat being vacated by Tim Walz (D) later this year.
In her campaign announcement, which was postponed due to another fatal shooting in Minneapolis over the weekend, Klobuchar vowed to fight back against the Trump administration’s surge of federal agents deployed in her state that has sparked a national backlash against Trump’s immigration policies.
“Minnesota, we’ve been through a lot,” she said. “In these moments of enormous difficulty, we find strength in our Minnesota values of hard work, freedom, and simple decency and goodwill. These times call for leaders who can stand up and not be rubber stamps of this administration, but who are also willing to find common ground and fix things in our state.”
Klobuchar, 65, has served in the Senate since 2007. A prominent centrist Democrat, she rose to the No. 3 position in Senate Democratic leadership and assumed high-ranking posts on the Senate Rules, Justice, and Agriculture committees. She also ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary but struggled to gain traction. Winning a Midwestern governorship, however, could give her added appeal in the 2028 presidential campaign.
Klobuchar is joining a growing list of Senate Democrats heading for the exits this year, including her fellow Minnesota Democrat Tina Smith, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Gary Peters of Michigan, and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.
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