It is built to last.”įor some Iowans, there is no substitute for personal contact with the candidate.
“It’s not something where you just bring in one celebrity. “I just have to hope that that kind of grassroots campaigning is going to last,” she said. Klobuchar says that the breadth of her support shows she can bring together people from all political leanings and that the roster of well-known local supporters will provide crucial credibility and organizing support in her absence. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and musical acts Bon Iver and Vampire Weekend to Iowa. Actress Mandy Moore was in Iowa for Buttigieg, and actress and activist Ashley Judd will stump with Warren in New Hampshire on Friday and Saturday. Those candidates also have surrogates on the trail, including some big-name performers and nationally known politicians. Kamala Harris, who quit the race last year.īut Klobuchar is running out of time to gain ground on the four front-runners - Warren, Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
She picked up 14 more local endorsers on Wednesday, including two well-known Iowa Democratic activists who were previously with Sen. Beto O’Rourke, who have dropped out of the 2020 race. On Tuesday, she got the backing of a state senator who is a leading advocate for action on climate change, and two other state lawmakers who previously supported Sen. In recent days Klobuchar earned endorsements from The New York Times, which also endorsed Warren, and the Quad-City Times, one of Iowa’s largest newspapers. Now her absence could blunt the gains from what Klobuchar described Wednesday as “quite a 48 hours.” A strong showing in Iowa, her campaign hopes, will catapult her into the top tier in New Hampshire and beyond. She spent campaign funds conservatively all year, hoping to be able to capitalize on a late surge just before the caucuses. The three-term senator built her campaign on a strategy of a slow and steady build in Iowa. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Michael Bennet and Klobuchar are stuck in their seats in Washington.īut it’s a particularly bad moment for Klobuchar. Just as voters in the nation’s leadoff caucus state are finalizing their decisions ahead of the Feb.
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The impeachment trial that got underway this week is happening at an inopportune time for all four of the senators in the Democratic primary. “When I talk to voters in New Hampshire, when I talk to people here … it’s just ‘Is she going to be able to beat Donald Trump?’ They want a candidate who is going to win, and I think she has the best record for proving that.” “She actually has a record of winning in places Trump has won,” said Abigail Bessler, delivering Klobuchar’s well-worn lines. Instead, her potential supporters at Tuesday night’s house party got a pitch from the senator’s 24-year-old daughter. The only thing missing was the candidate, who was stuck in the Senate chamber some 1,100 miles away for the start of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. They ate tater tot hot dish - Klobuchar’s award-winning recipe - and listened to the case for the Minnesota senator to be Democrats’ nominee for president. In a small rural Iowa community, voters gathered in a neighbor’s home. STANTON, Iowa (AP) - It was the kind of event designed to play up the Midwestern sensibilities that Amy Klobuchar so often talks about on the campaign trail. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.
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