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| It's cold outside. Amy Klobuchar announces her run for President of the United States. |
Another woman is entering the race for President of the United States. Minnesota U.S. senator Amy Klobuchar is entering the race. She would be the fifth woman to enter a contested race. She will join fellow senators Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren in the race to beat Donald J. Trump.
There are five women in this race. History in the making.
The Democratic Party has a lot to prove. Can they beat an imbecile who has the backing of a cable news channel, a bunch far-right radio hosts, Russian propaganda and Americans divided over policies?
Trump has a 70% chance of winning reelection.
Do you believe Amy Klobuchar is ready to be President of the United States? (Expect the dumbest answers to be picked by trolls)
Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, she is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a corporate lawyer in Minneapolis until being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for all criminal prosecution in Minnesota's most populous county.
Klobuchar was first elected to the Senate in 2006, becoming Minnesota's first elected female United States Senator, and was reelected in 2012 and 2018.
In 2009 and 2010, she was described as a "rising star" in the Democratic Party.
Trump decided to make his case.
Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2019
She is married to John Bessler, a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. They have a daughter.
Klobuchar wants to cast herself as the product of working-class roots who can win bipartisan support and help Democrats win back the Midwestern cities and towns that drifted toward Trump during the 2016 election. Thoughout her speech, she pledged to take on issues like money in politics, climate change and election reform, and leaned heavily into her Minnesota roots.
"On an island in the middle of the mighty Mississippi, in our nation's heartland, at a time when we must heal the heart of our democracy and renew our commitment to the common good, I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, 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 said.
The snowstorm featured heavily throughout Klobuchar's announcement.
"I'm asking you to join us on this campaign. It's a homegrown one," she said. "I don't have a political machine. I don't come from money. But what I do have is this: I have grit."
She added: "I have all of you who are willing to come out in the middle of the winter, all of you who took the time to watch us today from home, all of you who are willing to stand up and say people matter."
The senator also used the snow and freezing temperature to set herself apart from a crowded field of Democrats running in 2020.
The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party is a center-left political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is affiliated with the U.S. Democratic Party. Formed by a merger of the Minnesota Democratic Party and the left-wing Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party in 1944.
In her speech, Klobuchar also took a swipe at officials in Washington, promising that her honesty will set her apart from them.
"I promise you this: As your president, I will look you in the eye. I will tell you what I think. I will focus on getting things done. That's what I've done my whole life. And no matter what, I'll lead from the heart," she said.
The senator also went after Trump without mentioning him by name, criticizing the President's foreign policy and use of Twitter.
"We need to stand strong — and consistently — with our allies. We need to be clear in our purpose.
We must respect our front line troops, diplomats and intelligence officers ... who are out there every day risking their lives for us ... they deserve better than foreign policy by tweet," she said.
It was clear early in Klobuchar's remarks that her campaign will be centered on making inroads in the Midwest, an area of the country that has been wooed by Trump in recent years. Minneapolis and the nearby Mississippi River, which rolled slowly down the hill from where Klobuchar spoke, played a central role in the senator's pitch.
"The Mississippi River, all our rivers connect us, to one another. To our shared story," she said. "For that is how this country was founded, with patriots who saw more that united them than divided them."
The setting also provided a clear example of how the senator hopes to run for president as a Minnesotan and Midwesterner.
Klobuchar's uncovered head was covered in light snow by the end of her speech and snowflakes blanketed everything in front of her, from her eyelashes to the microphone she used to the pages of her speech that were enclosed in plastic covers.
Ahead of the event, snow blowers cleared the stage multiple times and volunteers were frantically working to shovel walkways for people. The skyline of Minneapolis was barely visible behind the stage and the banks of the freezing Mississippi River were covered in snow.
Klobuchar's team planned for the event by ordering 100 gallons of hot cocoa and 100 gallons of apple cider. Volunteers handed out small American flags and packs of Little Hotties hand warmers as people entered the park. A small covered area to the side of the event had a roaring fire and a number of event attendees either cross-country skied or snow-shoed to the speech.
Most attendees were unfazed by the weather -- and gave Klobuchar credit for announcing outside in February.
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