Amy Klobuchar 2020 presidential campaign

rdf:langString Amy Klobuchar 2020 presidential campaign

rdf:langString Amy Klobuchar

rdf:langString County Attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota

rdf:langString U.S. Senator from Minnesota

rdf:langString Sam Clark

rdf:langString Michael Schultz

rdf:langString Brigit Helgen

rdf:langString Carlie Waibel

rdf:langString Elise Convy

rdf:langString Jeff Blodgett

rdf:langString Julia Kennedy

rdf:langString Justin Buoen

rdf:langString Nathan Nye

rdf:langString Rosa Po

rdf:langString Amy Klobuchar 2020 presidential campaign logo.svg

rdf:langString Let’s get to work

rdf:langString The 2020 presidential campaign of Amy Klobuchar, the senior United States senator from Minnesota and former Hennepin County attorney, was formally announced on February 10, 2019 in Minneapolis. Prior to her announcement, Klobuchar had been discussed as a potential candidate for the office by multiple news publications. Klobuchar pitched herself as a moderate choice within the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Her platform included investments in infrastructure, a public option for health insurance as a pathway to universal healthcare, ensuring election security, overturning the Citizens United ruling, protecting online consumers by requiring transparency of terms, and promoting agriculture to spur rural job growth. She opposed free four-year college tuition, a Green New Deal, or immediate single-payer healthcare as being unrealistic. Klobuchar suspended her campaign on March 2, 2020, following poor results in the South Carolina primary and one day before Super Tuesday. She endorsed Joe Biden for the presidency. Her failure to gain significant support among primary voters was attributed to competition with a large number of moderate competitors, a failure to attract nonwhite voters, and a lack of campaign funds.