U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Thursday she is running for governor of Minnesota, promising to take on Donald Trump while unifying a state that has endured a series of challenges even before the federal government’s immigration crackdown.
Klobuchar’s decision gives Democrats a high-profile candidate and proven statewide winner as their party tries to hold onto the office occupied by Gov. Tim Walz.
Klobuchar cited Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, federal officers killing two Minnesotans who protested, the assassination of a state legislative leader and a school shooting that killed multiple children — all within the last year. She avoided direct mention of ongoing fraud investigations into the child care programs that Trump has made a political cudgel.
They are fundamentally both the exact same in regards to their inability to push for substantive change needed. Calling her a centrist in comparison to Walz is patently ignoring every right wing take they share on every important issue (right wing being in support of capital). It’s comical to me and speaks to only having a surface level analysis of both of them without any regard for their complicity in the systems of oppression they support and prop up.