Amy Klobuchar presidential campaign, 2020

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Amy Klobuchar suspended her presidential campaign on March 2, 2020.


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“ We need someone that has people's back. We also need someone that can win. And I have won in these red districts. I win in the Midwest. I can win in states like Wisconsin and Michigan and Iowa. I also will do my job without fear or favor, just like I did as a prosecutor, and get through the gridlock like I've done as a senator, where I've passed over 100 bills where I've been the lead Democrat.[1] ”
—Amy Klobuchar (July 2019)[2]


Amy Klobuchar is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Minnesota. She formally declared her candidacy on February 10, 2019. Klobuchar ended her presidential campaign on March 2, 2020, and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden (D).[3]

Klobuchar announced several policy priorities, including automatic voter registration, reducing the amount of money in politics, and reinstating climate regulations that were eliminated by the Trump administration.[4]

Klobuchar was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006.


Election results

Amy Klobuchar (D) presidential primary results in 2020
State
Date
% of vote received
Pledged delegates
Iowa February 3
 
12.2
 
1
New Hampshire February 11
 
19.7
 
6
Nevada February 22
 
7.3
 
0
South Carolina February 29
 
3.1
 
0
Arkansas March 3
 
3.1
 
0
California March 3
 
2.2
 
0
Maine March 3
 
1.4
 
0
Massachusetts March 3
 
1.2
 
0
Minnesota March 3
 
5.6
 
0
North Carolina March 3
 
2.3
 
0
Oklahoma March 3
 
2.2
 
0
Tennessee March 3
 
2.1
 
0
Texas March 3
 
2.1
 
0
Utah March 3
 
3.4
 
0
Vermont March 3
 
1.3
 
0
Virginia March 3
 
0.6
 
0
Alabama March 3
 
0.2
 
0
Idaho March 10
 
0.7
 
0
Michigan March 10
 
0.7
 
0
Mississippi March 10
 
0.2
 
0
Missouri March 10
 
0.4
 
0
North Dakota March 10
 
1.5
 
0
Washington March 10
 
2.1
 
0
Democrats Abroad March 10
 
0.6
 
0
Florida March 17
 
1.0
 
0
Wisconsin April 7
 
0.7
 
0
Ohio April 28
 
1.3
 
0
Indiana June 2
 
0.8
 
0
Maryland June 2
 
0.5
 
0
Georgia June 9
 
0.4
 
0
West Virginia June 9
 
1.6
 
0
Kentucky June 23
 
1.0
 
0
New York June 23
 
0.8
 
0
Louisiana July 11
 
0.9
 
0
Puerto Rico July 12
 
0.5
 
0
Total pledged delegates: 7


Klobuchar in the news

See also: Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing and Editorial approach to story selection for the Daily Presidential News Briefing

This section featured five news stories about Klobuchar and her presidential campaign. For a complete timeline of Klobuchar's campaign activity, click here.

  • March 2, 2020: Klobuchar suspended her presidential campaign and endorsed Biden.
  • February 29, 2020: Klobuchar campaigned in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. She made a $4.2 million ad buy across the Super Tuesday states.
  • February 27, 2020: Klobuchar attended a roundtable on voting rights in North Carolina. She also participated in a televised town hall from Raleigh on Fox News.
  • February 25-26, 2020: Klobuchar campaigned in South Carolina. Kitchen Table Conversations made a six-figure ad buy in Arkansas, Maine, Oklahoma, and South Carolina to support Klobuchar.
  • February 24, 2020: Klobuchar released a medical report that said she was in good health and “does not have any health conditions that would impair her ability” to serve as president.



Biography

Klobuchar was born in 1960 and grew up in Plymouth, Minnesota. She earned her B.A. graduating magna cum laude from Yale University in 1982, and she received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985. While attending Yale, Klobuchar interned for Vice President Walter Mondale (D).[5]

Prior to running for public office, Klobuchar was a partner at the law firms of Dorsey & Whitney and Gray Plant Mooty.[6] She was elected Hennepin County attorney in 1998 with 50.4 percent of the vote and re-elected in 2002 with no opposition.[7] She served as county attorney until 2006, the year she was first elected to the U.S. Senate.

Klobuchar won that election with 58 percent of the vote, and she was re-elected with over 60 percent support in 2012 and 2018. In 2014, Senate Democrats elected Klobuchar as chair of the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, which works with advocacy groups, policy experts, and intergovernmental organizations to shape policy positions.[8][9]

Klobuchar has published two books: Uncovering the Dome—based off her Yale senior essay on the politics surrounding the construction of the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome—in 1986 and the memoir The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland in 2015.[10]

Campaign staff

See also: Amy Klobuchar presidential campaign staff, 2020, Presidential election key staffers, 2020, and Presidential campaign managers, 2020

The table below shows a sampling of the candidate's 2020 national campaign staff members, including the campaign manager and some senior advisors, political directors, communication directors, and field directors. It also includes each staff member's position in the campaign, previous work experience, and Twitter handle, where available.[11] For a larger list of national campaign staff, visit Democracy in Action.


Amy Klobuchar presidential campaign national staff, 2020
Staff Position Prior experience Twitter handle
Justin Buoen Campaign manager Partner, New Partners @jbuoen
Pete Giangreco Senior advisor Partner, The Strategy Group N/A
Brigit Helgen Senior advisor Chief of staff, office of Sen. Amy Klobuchar N/A
Lucinda Ware Political director Vice president/partner SWAY N/A
Mike McLaughlin Field director Campaign manager, Harley Rouda for Congress, 2018 N/A
Tim Hogan Communications director National press secretary, The Hub Project @timjhogan
Carlie Waibel National press secretary Senior spokesperson, Andrew Gillum for Governor of Florida, 2018 @carliewaibel
Michael Schultz National finance director Finance director, Ben Cardin for U.S. Senate, 2018 N/A



Campaign finance

The following chart shows Democratic presidential campaign fundraising, including both total receipts and contributions from individuals, as well as campaign spending. Figures for each candidate run through the end of June 2020 or through the final reporting period during which the candidate was actively campaigning for president. The total disbursements column includes operating expenditures, transfers to other committees, refunds, loan repayments, and other disbursements.[12]


Satellite spending

Satellite spending, commonly referred to as outside spending, describes political spending not controlled by candidates or their campaigns; that is, any political expenditures made by groups or individuals that are not directly affiliated with a candidate. This includes spending by political party committees, super PACs, trade associations, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups.[13][14][15]

This section lists satellite spending in this race reported by news outlets in alphabetical order. If you are aware of spending that should be included, please email us.

  • Kitchen Table Conversations, a super PAC formed in February 2020, spent $1.2 million on television and digital ads to support Klobuchar in Nevada and South Carolina.[16]

Democratic presidential primary debates, 2019-2020

See also: Democratic presidential nomination, 2020

The following table provides an overview of the date, location, host, and number of participants in each scheduled 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate.

2020 Democratic presidential primary debates
Debate Date Location Host Number of participants
First Democratic primary debate June 26-27, 2019 Miami, Florida NBC News, MSNBC, and Telemundo 20 candidates
Second Democratic primary debate July 30-31, 2019 Detroit, Michigan CNN 20 candidates
Third Democratic primary debate September 12, 2019 Houston, Texas ABC News and Univision 10 candidates
Fourth Democratic primary debate October 15, 2019 Westerville, Ohio CNN and The New York Times 12 candidates
Fifth Democratic primary debate November 20, 2019 Georgia MSNBC and The Washington Post 10 candidates
Sixth Democratic primary debate December 19, 2019 Los Angeles, California PBS NewsHour and Politico 7 candidates
Seventh Democratic primary debate January 14, 2020 Des Moines, Iowa CNN and The Des Moines Register 6 candidates
Eighth Democratic primary debate February 7, 2020 Manchester, New Hampshire ABC, WMUR-TV, and Apple News 7 candidates
Ninth Democratic primary debate February 19, 2020 Las Vegas, Nevada NBC News and MSNBC 6 candidates
Tenth Democratic primary debate February 25, 2020 Charleston, South Carolina CBS News and Congressional Black Caucus Institute 7 candidates
Eleventh Democratic primary debate March 15, 2020 Washington, D.C. CNN, Univision, and CHC Bold 2 candidates


Debate participation

Klobuchar participated in ten of the ten Democratic presidential primary debates that took place while she was a candidate.

Campaign advertisements

This section shows a sampling of advertisements released to support or oppose this candidate in the 2020 presidential election.

"Home" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released February 25, 2020
"Compassion" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released February 15, 2020
"100 Days" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released February 11, 2020
"99" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released January 28, 2020
"It's About You" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released January 28, 2020
"What It Takes" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released January 3, 2020
"This Time" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released December 17, 2019
"Questions" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released November 30, 2019
"Winner in the White House" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released October 23, 2019
"All of America" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released October 2, 2019
"Let's Get to Work" - Klobuchar campaign ad, released July 20, 2019

Campaign travel

See also: Presidential candidate campaign travel, 2020

Ballotpedia compiled the number of days each Democratic presidential candidate has spent in the four early primary states—Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada—from January 1, 2019, through February 29, 2020.

Information about the candidates' schedules was sourced from The Des Moines Register, NBC Boston/NECN, The Post & Courier, The Nevada Independent.[17][18][19][20]

The following table shows the number of days each candidate spent in each early primary state between January 1, 2019, and February 29, 2020. Candidates marked with an asterisk did not have complete information available for one or more states.

Policy positions

The following policy positions were compiled from the candidate's official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and interviews.

Immigration

Amy Klobuchar's campaign website says, "Comprehensive immigration reform is also crucial to moving our economy and our country forward. Amy supports a comprehensive immigration reform bill that includes the DREAM Act, border security and an accountable pathway to earned citizenship. She is committed to stopping the cruel and inhumane policy where the government is taking kids away from their parents."

Klobuchar's campaign also listed her priorities for her first 100 days in office online, which include "Jump-start legislative negotiations for comprehensive immigration reform with the stated goal of passing it in the first year. Protect DACA and TPS and Deferred Enforcement Departure designations. End the family separation policy. Raise the refugee admissions cap." [source, as of 2019-06-18]

Healthcare

Amy Klobuchar's campaign website says, "Amy supports universal health care for all Americans, and she believes the quickest way to get there is through a public option that expands Medicare or Medicaid. She supports changes to the Affordable Care Act to help bring down costs to consumers including providing cost-sharing reductions, making it easier for states to put reinsurance in place, and continuing to implement delivery system reform. And she’s been fighting her whole life to bring down the cost of prescription drugs"

Klobuchar's website lists her healthcare-related priorities, including the following: "Bringing down the cost of health care for everyone by putting a non-profit public option in place that allows people to buy into affordable health insurance coverage through Medicare or Medicaid. Improving the Affordable Care Act to help bring down costs for consumers by expanding premium subsidies and providing cost-sharing reductions to lower out-of-pocket health care costs like copays and deductibles. Taking on mental health and addiction by launching new prevention and early intervention initiatives, expanding access to treatment, and giving all Americans a path to sustainable recovery. Expanding rural health care by revising Medicare rules so that our rural hospitals can stay open, providing better support to critical access hospitals and community health centers, and expanding telehealth services." [source, as of 2019-08-28]

Energy and environmental issues

The Klobuchar campaign wrote in a Medium post, "The climate crisis isn’t happening in 100 years — it’s happening now. Starting on day one of her administration, Senator Klobuchar will take aggressive executive action to confront the climate crisis. Specifically, in the first 100 days of her administration Senator Klobuchar will: Get the United States back in the Paris International Climate Agreement on day one. Restore the Clean Power Plan. Bring back the fuel-economy standards. Introduce sweeping legislation that will put our country on the path to 100% net zero emissions by 2050. End the Trump Administration’s censoring of climate science. Set ambitious goals to reduce the carbon footprint of the federal government. Reinstate the National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee to immediately start addressing the climate crisis." [source, as of 2019-09-01]

Trade

Amy Klobuchar's campaign published a plan for her first 100 days in office, which includes the following: "Restart the President’s Export Council. Senator Klobuchar will restart the President’s Export Council, which brings together business, labor, and agricultural leaders with Members of Congress and key Administration officials to help promote a comprehensive export and trade strategy."

The plan also includes the following: "Aggressively combat illegal Chinese steel dumping. Senator Klobuchar will ensure the federal government is aggressively combating illegal Chinese steel dumping including through expanded personnel to enforce our trade laws and increased inspections of steel imports at ports of entry. She will also direct the U.S. Department of Labor to expedite approval of Trade Adjustment Assistance petitions for workers from the affected mining operations." [source, as of 2019-06-18]

Economy

Amy Klobuchar's campaign website says, "Too many people aren’t sharing in our country’s economic prosperity. Shared prosperity is about ensuring all families have a fair shot in today’s economy, and Amy believes that this means investing in quality child care, overhauling our country’s housing policy, raising the minimum wage, providing paid family leave, supporting small business owners and entrepreneurs, as well as helping Americans save for retirement. We must beat back decades of systemic racism and inequality. Amy believes this begins with early-childcare and fixing our education system, addressing racism in health care such as disparities in maternal and infant mortality rates, ending housing discrimination so that everyone can afford to rent an apartment and own a home in a good neighborhood for their kids, and tackling disparities in wages and in retirement savings. Our laws and our policies have not kept pace with our changing economy and the digital revolution. Amy believes that this means we need to do more when it comes to taking on monopoly power and promoting competition, protecting consumers and their privacy in the digital age, and empowering workers with the tools they need to succeed in the evolving digital economy and preparing them for the jobs of tomorrow." [source, as of 2019-08-28]

Education

Amy Klobuchar's campaign website says, "We also need to make sure all our children can get a great education. That means increasing teacher pay and funding for our public schools, with a focus on investment in areas that need it the most. And we need to make sure the rising costs of college aren’t a barrier to opportunity. Amy supports allowing borrowers to refinance student loans at lower rates, loan forgiveness for in-demand occupations, expanded Pell grants, and tuition-free one- and two-year community college degrees and technical certifications."

Klobuchar's campaign published a plan for her first 100 days in office which says she will, "Protect student borrowers. Propose a historic investment in public education.", "Reduce racial disparities in disciplining students.", "Remove barriers to education for homeless and foster youth.", "Restore staffing levels at the Office of Civil Rights and the Office of Federal Student Aid.", "Protect students from discrimination and violence.", and "Invest in adult basic education." [source, as of 2019-06-18]

Gun regulation

Amy Klobuchar's campaign published a plan on gun violence which says, "The gun homicide rate in the United States is 25 times higher than other developed countries and gun safety laws are long overdue. Senator Klobuchar has been standing up to the NRA and fighting for stronger gun safety measures since she was the Hennepin County Attorney, working with local law enforcement to push to ban military-style assault weapons. In the Senate, she has supported legislation to ban assault weapons and bump stocks and improve background checks. Coming from a hunting state, 74 percent of Minnesota gun owners support criminal background checks on all gun sales, including in private transactions and at gun shows."

The plan lists Klobuchar's policies, some of which include: "Instituting universal background checks by closing the gun show loophole. Banning bump stocks that can increase a semiautomatic rifle’s rate of fire to 700 rounds per minute. Banning high capacity magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Quickly raising the age to buy military-style assault weapons from 18 to 21 and fighting to ban the sale of assault weapons. Closing the “Charleston loophole” by giving law enforcement additional time to complete background checks. Closing the “boyfriend loophole” by preventing people who have abused dating partners from buying or owning firearms. Establishing a waiting period for sales of handguns and assault rifles, which law enforcement can waive in the case of an emergency." and "Prohibiting the online publication of code for 3D printing firearms." [source, as of 2019-08-06]

Criminal justice

Amy Klobuchar's campaign published a plan for her first 100 days in office which says she will "create a clemency advisory board as well as a position in the White House — outside of the Department of Justice — that advise the President from a criminal justice reform perspective. The clemency advisory board will investigate and review requests for clemency for federal offenses and ultimately prepare a recommendation for the President." [source, as of 2019-06-18]

Foreign policy

Amy Klobuchar's campaign website says, "Amy believes that we need to stand strong — and consistently — with our allies and that we must respect our frontline troops, diplomats and intelligence officers, who are out there every day risking their lives for our country, and deserve better than foreign policy by tweet. She would invest in diplomacy and rebuild the State Department and modernize our military to stay one step ahead of China and Russia, including with serious investments in cybersecurity."

Klobuchar's campaign also published a plan for her first 100 days in office which says she will, "Rebuild our relationship with our allies and restore America’s standing in the world.", "Restore freedom to travel to and trade with Cuba.", "Reverse dramatic proposed funding cuts to diplomacy and foreign assistance.", "Impose full sanctions on Russia for hostile act against the United States and its allies.", "Work to re-enter the Iran nuclear agreement.", "Reduce State Department vacancies.", "Curtail arms transfers and other support for the war in Yemen.", and "Protect funding for the Northern Triangle." [source, as of 2019-06-18]

Impeachment

Amy Klobuchar tweeted, "President said he’s releasing call transcript. Remember it’s the whistleblower complaint we must see. Not just one call. Complaint reportedly involves more. It isn’t legal to sell out your country for personal gain. As I’ve said before, House should open impeachment investigation." [source, as of 2019-09-24]

Other policy positions

Click on any of the following links to read more policy positions from the 2020 presidential candidates.

Abortion

Criminal justice

Economy

Education

Energy and environmental issues

Foreign policy

Gun regulation

Healthcare

Immigration

Impeachment

Labor

Trade


Campaign themes

The following campaign themes and issues were published on Klobuchar's presidential campaign website:[21]

“

Health Care

Health Care: Amy supports universal health care for all Americans, and she believes the quickest way to get there is through a public option that expands Medicare or Medicaid. She supports changes to the Affordable Care Act to help bring down costs to consumers including providing cost-sharing reductions, making it easier for states to put reinsurance in place, and continuing to implement delivery system reform. And she’s been fighting her whole life to bring down the cost of prescription drugs.

Prescription drugs: When people are sick, their focus should be on getting better, rather than on how they can afford their prescriptions. Yet drug prices are an increasing burden across our country. Amy has been a champion when it comes to tackling the high costs of prescription drugs. She has authored proposals to lift the ban on Medicare negotiations for prescription drugs, allow personal importation of safe drugs from countries like Canada, and stop pharmaceutical companies from blocking less-expensive generics.

Addiction and Mental Health: Amy’s dad struggled with alcoholism and she saw the toll that mental health and substance use disorders can take on families and communities. As President, Amy will combat substance use disorder and prioritize mental health, including launching new prevention and early intervention initiatives, expanding access to treatment, and giving Americans a path to sustainable recovery. Her plan will ensure that everyone has the right — and the opportunity — to be pursued by grace and receive effective, professional treatment and help.

Reproductive Rights: When it comes to women’s health, it’s clear that there is a concerted effort to attack, undermine and eliminate a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions. The recent bans in states are dangerous, they are unconstitutional, and they are out of step with the majority of Americans. Amy will continue working to protect the health and lives of women across the country.

Shared Prosperity and Economic Justice

Shared Prosperity: Too many people aren’t sharing in our country’s economic prosperity. Shared prosperity is about ensuring all families have a fair shot in today’s economy, and Amy believes that this means investing in quality child care, overhauling our country’s housing policy, raising the minimum wage, providing paid family leave, supporting small business owners and entrepreneurs, as well as helping Americans save for retirement.

Education: We also need to make sure all our children can get a great education. That means increasing teacher pay and funding for our public schools, with a focus on investment in areas that need it the most. And we need to make sure the rising costs of college aren’t a barrier to opportunity. Amy supports allowing borrowers to refinance student loans at lower rates, loan forgiveness for in-demand occupations, expanded Pell grants, and tuition-free one- and two-year community college degrees and technical certifications.

Agriculture and Rural Communities: America’s prosperity depends on supporting our family farmers and rural communities, but today farm income in America remains near historic lows. Amy has been an advocate for rural communities and our farmers, and she understands that this country has to do more to provide a strong safety net to help farmers, as well as invest in our rural communities, which includes hospitals, childcare, housing, connecting every household to high-speed internet by 2022, and a strong farm policy.

Economic Justice: We must beat back decades of systemic racism and inequality. Amy believes this begins with early-childcare and fixing our education system, addressing racism in health care such as disparities in maternal and infant mortality rates, ending housing discrimination so that everyone can afford to rent an apartment and own a home in a good neighborhood for their kids, and tackling disparities in wages and in retirement savings.

Labor: As the granddaughter of an iron ore miner and the daughter of a union teacher and a union newspaperman, Amy will bring one clear but simple guide to the White House: When unions are strong, our country is strong. As President, she’ll stand up against attempts to weaken our unions. That means achieving real labor law reform, ensuring free and fair union elections, protecting collective bargaining rights, rolling back Right to Work laws, and making it easier — and not harder — for workers to join unions.

Immigration: Comprehensive immigration reform is also crucial to moving our economy and our country forward. Amy supports a comprehensive immigration reform bill that includes the DREAM Act, border security and an accountable pathway to earned citizenship. She is committed to stopping the cruel and inhumane policy where the government is taking kids away from their parents.

Infrastructure: Amy has proposed a bold plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure, invest in our future, and create millions of good-paying American jobs. Her plan includes repairing and replacing our roads, highways and bridges as well as building smart climate infrastructure, ensuring clean water, modernizing our airports, seaports and inland waterways, expanding reliable public transit options, rebuilding our schools, overhauling our country’s housing policy, and connecting every household to the internet by 2022.

A Changing Economy: Our laws and our policies have not kept pace with our changing economy and the digital revolution. Amy believes that this means we need to do more when it comes to taking on monopoly power and promoting competition, protecting consumers and their privacy in the digital age, and empowering workers with the tools they need to succeed in the evolving digital economy and preparing them for the jobs of tomorrow.

Climate

Amy is deeply committed to tackling the climate crisis and believes that it is an urgent priority for our communities, for our economy and for our planet. She is a co-sponsor of a Green New Deal and has signed the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge. On day one of Amy’s presidency she will get us back into the International Climate Change Agreement. On day two and day three, she will bring back the clean power rules and gas mileage standards that the Obama Administration put into place. And she will put forward sweeping legislation that provides a landmark investment in clean-energy jobs and infrastructure, provides incentives for tougher building codes, promotes rural renewable energy and development, and promotes “buy clean” policies.

A Safer World

Foreign Policy: Amy believes that we need to stand strong — and consistently — with our allies and that we must respect our frontline troops, diplomats and intelligence officers, who are out there every day risking their lives for our country, and deserve better than foreign policy by tweet. She would invest in diplomacy and rebuild the State Department and modernize our military to stay one step ahead of China and Russia, including with serious investments in cybersecurity.

Guns: Gun violence prevention policies are long overdue. Amy supports a package of gun violence policies including instituting universal background checks by closing the gun show loophole and banning bump stocks, high capacity ammunition feeding devices and assault weapons. She is also the author of a proposal that would close what is commonly referred to as the ‘boyfriend loophole’ by preventing people who have abused dating partners from buying or owning firearms.

A Strong Democracy

Voting and Campaign Finance: The right to vote is the bedrock of our democracy, and we must make sure people’s voices are heard. But today the right to vote is under attack. As President, Amy will champion a voting rights and democracy reform package, including automatically registering every 18-year-old in this country to vote, banning states from purging voters from rolls for not voting in recent elections, putting same-day registration policies in place, and restoring the Voting Rights Act. And it’s time to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and get dark money out of our politics, as well as establish a campaign finance system that increases the power of small donors through a matching system for small donations.

Election Security: The Russian attack on our democracy during the 2016 election highlighted the critical need for improving our election cybersecurity. Amy has led the way in the Senate when it comes to stopping cyber-attacks on our elections and protecting against future foreign interference. And as President, she will push for security protocols such as backup paper ballots and audits and make sure that national security officials share information about the potential for attacks with state officials in real time.

Criminal Justice: Amy believes it is time for the Second Step Act. The First Step Act — which made key federal sentencing and prison reforms — only applied to those held in federal prisons and didn’t help the nearly 90 percent of incarcerated populations in state and local facilities. Amy will create federal incentives so that states can restore some discretion from mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenders. She will also reform the cash bail system, expand funding for public defenders, eliminate obstacles to re-entering and participating fully in society, and fight for expanded drug courts. And during the first month of her presidency, Amy will create a clemency advisory board as well as a position in the White House — outside of the Department of Justice — that advises the President from a criminal justice reform perspective.[1]

”
—Amy Klobuchar for President 2020[21]

Klobuchar participated in an interview series with The New York Times that asked 21 Democratic candidates the same series of 18 questions. To view Klobuchar's responses, click here.

Archive of Political Emails

The Archive of Political Emails was founded in July 2019 to compile political fundraising and advocacy emails sent by candidates, elected officials, PACs, nonprofits, NGOs, and other political actors.[22] The archive includes screenshots and searchable text from emails sent by 2020 presidential candidates. To review the Klobuchar campaign's emails, click here.

Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing

See also: Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing

The following section provides a timeline of Klobuchar's campaign activity beginning in February 2019. The entries, which come from Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing, are sorted by month in reverse chronological order.


2020

2019


Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ The Washington Post, "Transcript: The first night of the second Democratic debate," July 31, 2019
  3. ↑ USA Today, "With her 'Klomentum' gone, Amy Klobuchar ends her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination," March 2, 2020
  4. ↑ CNBC, "Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar is running for president — here are her top priorities," February 11, 2019
  5. ↑ Faribault Daily News, "Mondale backs a Klobuchar bid," February 6, 2019
  6. ↑ Biographical Guide to Members of Congress, "Amy Klobuchar," accessed July 16, 2019
  7. ↑ Our Campaigns, "Hennepin County Attorney," accessed July 16, 2019
  8. ↑ MinnPost, "Senate Democrats elect Klobuchar to leadership role," November 13, 2014
  9. ↑ Senate Democrats, "Democratic Steering & Outreach Committee," accessed July 16, 2019
  10. ↑ MinnPost, "Klobuchar’s ‘The Senator Next Door’ centers on the people who shaped her politics," August 28, 2015
  11. ↑ Democracy in Action, "Organization," accessed November 4, 2019
  12. ↑ FEC, "U.S. President," accessed July 16, 2019
  13. ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Outside Spending," accessed September 22, 2015
  14. ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Total Outside Spending by Election Cycle, All Groups," accessed September 22, 2015
  15. ↑ National Review.com, "Why the Media Hate Super PACs," November 6, 2015
  16. ↑ MinnPost, "New Super PAC has spent more than $1 million backing Klobuchar," February 21, 2020
  17. ↑ The Des Moines Register, "Candidate Tracker," accessed July 29, 2019
  18. ↑ NECN, "2020 New Hampshire Candidate Tracker," accessed July 29, 2019
  19. ↑ Post & Courier, "2020 SC Presidential Candidate Tracker," accessed July 29, 2019
  20. ↑ The Nevada Independent, "Presidential Candidate Tracker," accessed July 29, 2019
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Amy Klobuchar for President 2020, "Issues," accessed July 18, 2019
  22. ↑ Archive of Political Emails, "About," accessed September 16, 2019
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