Amy Klobuchar gaining traction in Iowa with Midwest sensibility
1 / 5Election 2020 Amy KlobucharDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks during a stop at the Corner Sundry, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, in Indianola, Iowa. INDIANOLA, Iowa — Quick with a joke and unsparing in her mockery of President Donald Trump, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her Midwest sensibility show signs of gaining traction in Iowa, her neighboring state and where her presidential ambitions rise and fall.
“Make it simple: a nonprofit option, insurance that you can buy into to compete with the insurance companies,” Klobuchar told 50 people crammed into a coffee shop in small-town Indianola, south of Des Moines, on Friday."So this is where you start." Klobuchar, who long struggled to catch on, has benefited from lively debate performances and a sense of curiosity among those Iowans like Willadson — she also likes former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg — who are anxious the far-reaching agendas of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are too costly and politically unpopular.
The result has been an influx of money that has allowed her to build up her Iowa staff, though not on the scale of her rivals. Still, Klobuchar had added five offices around the state to the 10 she had. Pertinent to the authenticity she is working to build, she is keenly familiar with not just Iowa's congressional politics, but also with the individual legislative gains Iowa Democrats made in 2018, as well as details of the conservative agenda of Iowa's GOP-controlled Statehouse.
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