Amy Klobuchar should target Elizabeth Warren at the debate

Published July 30, 2019 9:06pm ET



Outside of the seven candidates who have secured their places on the September debate stage, just three others seem like safe bets: entrepreneur Andrew Yang and former Obama HUD Secretary Julián Castro, who require just one more qualifying poll, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who’s within striking distance of the 130,000 donor mark.

In theory, Klobuchar should poll much higher than her 1.2% RealClearPolitics average that positions her in ninth place. She has never won a Senate race by anything less than a 20% margin, even while the rest of Minnesota (the only state in the union to have a divided state legislature) boasts a D+1 Cook PVI and gave Hillary Clinton just 1.5% more than President Trump in 2016.

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