When the Democrats made their first steps toward going all in on impeachment, political analysts began pointing to a potential problem the process may pose for several Democratic presidential hopefuls: If impeachment makes it to the Senate, what does that mean for the six Democratic Senators vying for the nomination?
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-discuss-a-longer-senate-impeachment-trial-to-scramble-democratic-primaries/2019/11/13/d7e46d24-064c-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html">The Washington Post</a>&#8216;s sources, Republicans are well aware of the potential stumbling block an impeachment trial in the Senate could end up being for their Democratic peers contending for the 2020 nomination — and some are considering drawing out the proceeding to make sure the Democrats&#8217; pay for their ill-advised impeachment campaign.
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&#8220;Some Republican senators and their advisers are privately discussing whether to pressure GOP leaders to stage a lengthy impeachment trial beginning in January to scramble the Democratic presidential race — potentially keeping six contenders in Washington until the eve of the Iowa caucuses or longer,&#8221; the Post reports.
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&#8220;Those conversations about the timing and framework for a trial remain fluid and closely held, according to more than a dozen participants in the discussions,&#8221; the paper reports. &#8220;But the deliberations come as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) faces pressure from conservative activists to swat back at Democrats as public impeachment hearings began this week in the House.&#8221;
The Post acknowledges that the &#8220;potential hazard&#8221; that the impeachment campaign poses to Democratic senators is very real, as the six Democratic senators still in contention have &#8220;previously planned on a final sprint out of Washington before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses and the Feb. 11 New Hampshire primary.&#8221;
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Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson teased the press about the potential plot to make life hard on the Democrats. &#8220;That might be a strategy,&#8221; he said with &#8220;a coy smile.&#8221; &#8220;I’m just a lowly worker.&#8221;
Texas Sen. John Corynyn said the Senate would make sure to conduct the trial the &#8220;right&#8221; way, which would likely take five to six weeks. &#8220;Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden might like that,&#8221; he added, naming two of the leading candidates who are not senators.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) said that while Bill Clinton&#8217;s trial took five weeks, he could see Trump&#8217;s going longer because he has denied any wrongdoing. While Clinton &#8220;admitted that he had lied to the FBI,&#8221; said Burr, as reported by the Post, &#8220;I figured it’s going to take longer for [the Democrats] to make a case, because they don’t have that.&#8221;
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While the Post warns that Republicans may be scheming to hurt the Democratic senators, the outlet notes that some Republicans are pushing for a &#8220;swift dismissal or final vote.&#8221;
The six senators still in the mix are, in order of their poll numbers: Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Michael Bennet (D-CO).
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) suggested on Sunday morning that if she had the same level of experience as her primary rival, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, she would not have enough support to even qualify for the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) presidential debates.
&#8220;Of women on that [debate] stage &#8212; I&#8217;m focusing here on my fellow women senators, [Sens.] Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)] and myself &#8212; do I think we would be standing on that stage if we had the experience that he had?&#8221; Klobuchar asked CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper during an appearance on &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221; &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t. Maybe we&#8217;re held to a different standard.&#8221;
The Minnesota lawmaker&#8217;s remarks were in response to two recent polls that show the moderate vote is breaking in favor of Buttigieg. Both Klobuchar and Buttigieg are vying for the moderate lane for the Democratic nomination to the presidency, and they both represent constituents from the midwest, an important demographic going into the 2020 election cycle.
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“Of the women on the stage… do I think we would be standing on that stage if we had the experience that [Mayor Pete Buttigieg] had? No, I don’t. Maybe we’re held to a different standard.” &#8211; Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Mayor Buttigieg’s qualifications. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/HHvUIK2Z6K">pic.twitter.com/HHvUIK2Z6K</a>
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While Klobuchar put forth that she believes Buttigieg is more qualified to be in the Oval Office than President Donald Trump, she explained to Tapper that her experience in public office makes her significantly more qualified to do the job than the South Bend mayor.
&#8220;I&#8217;m the one from the midwest that has actually won in a statewide race over and over again including bringing in those voters that just voted in Kentucky &#8212; those kind of voters &#8212; just voted in Virginia,&#8221; Klobuchar said. &#8220;Brought them over the edge so that he with had strong leaders that were able to win those elections. Those are the kind of voters I&#8217;ve won and that is not true of Mayor Pete. That is just a fact.&#8221;
Accordingly, Klobuchar won re-election to her U.S. Senate seat in the state of Minnesota for a third time in November 2018. She found an easy path to victory, besting her Republican challenger by more than 20 points. While Trump lost Minnesota by roughly 1.5 percent during the 2016 presidential election, the two politicians seemingly appeal to the same type of voters: middle class voters and blue collar workers.
&#8220;I also am someone that has passed multiple bills as a lead Democrat, important bills in Washington, D.C. He&#8217;s had a different experience,&#8221; Klobuchar said. &#8220;We should be able to have those debates about candidates without being accused of being negative.&#8221;
The three-term senator enjoyed a surge of attention and fundraising in the wake of her performance in last month&#8217;s debate in Ohio. While appearing on the debate stage, Klobuchar clashed with her progressive rivals and publicly criticized their signature policy plan, Medicare for All. She notably attacked Warren for not being forthcoming with the American people and failing to admit that she would likely have to raise taxes on the middle class in order to help fund her sweeping proposal.
In the 24 hours following the debate, Klobuchar&#8217;s campaign announced that it had generated $1.1 million in donations, making it her campaign&#8217;s best day of online fundraising. The money is a significant haul for Klobuchar, who reported $4.8 million in third quarter donations and just $3.9 million in second quarter donations.
Klobuchar subsequently qualified for the DNC&#8217;s fifth primary debate in November.
As of publication, Klobuchar sits at just under 3% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide according to the Real Clear Politics National polling average. She hit 5% support for the first time in late October.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) addressed her longstanding reputation of being especially difficult to work with on Thursday after an independent voter confronted her with concerns over how she would govern if she was elected president of the United States.
&#8220;I&#8217;m concerned about my next leader, so my question to you is: how are you going to govern and how are you going to pick people?&#8221; Lizzy Berbue, a retired respiratory care practitioner asked Klobuchar during a dinner with voters on an episode of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;Around The Table.&#8221;  &#8220;You have a wonderful bipartisan ability to pass bills, but what I&#8217;m concerned about &#8212; the one thing that has been said about you &#8212; that you&#8217;re difficult to work for. I know when you work for somebody who&#8217;s difficult it brings you down.&#8221;
&#8220;I love my staff &#8230; and one of the reasons we&#8217;re so successful, it&#8217;s not me, it&#8217;s them,&#8221; Klobuchar responded. &#8220;And I am tough on people, and you can always be better, and I push some people. And as a result of that a few of them didn&#8217;t like me.&#8221;
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&#8220;You have a wonderful, bipartisan ability to pass bills, but&#8230;the one thing that has been said about you—that you’re difficult to work for.&#8221;
Amy Klobuchar sits down for a candid conversation with undecided voters in the key state of New Hampshire: <a href="https://t.co/QvSawoWI5Z">https://t.co/QvSawoWI5Z</a> <a href="https://t.co/lOBsV3HCNi">pic.twitter.com/lOBsV3HCNi</a>
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The Democratic presidential hopeful has a reputation of being particularly surly, especially to her staff, and especially in private. Only days prior to Klobuchar&#8217;s campaign launch, multiple reports surfaced alleging that she is verbally abusive to her congressional staffers and that she creates an office environment fueled by intimidation.
&#8220;Behind the doors of her Washington D.C., office, the Minnesota Democrat ran a workplace controlled by fear, anger, and shame, according to interviews with eight former staffers, one that many employees found intolerably cruel,&#8221; <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/amy-klobuchar-staff-2020-election">BuzzFeed News</a> reported in February. &#8220;She demeaned and berated her staff almost daily, subjecting them to bouts of explosive rage and regular humiliation within the office.&#8221;
One former staffer stated that Klobuchar would frequently yell and throw papers, and even recalled a time when another aide was hit with a binder during a fit of rage. The staffer stated, &#8220;I cried. I cried, like, all the time.&#8221;
Another <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-staff.html">report emerged</a> weeks later detailing a story where a former staffer prepared a salad for the senator to eat during a flight in 2008. As the story goes, the staffer dropped the fork and was unable to find a new one prior to take off. Consequently, after Klobuchar castigated the staffer over the accident, she took out a comb from her bag and began to eat her salad with it. When she was finished, she demanded the staffer clean the comb.
She has denied the accuracy of both reports.
In late February, 61 people who previously had worked for Klobuchar penned an open letter, published in <a href="https://medium.com/@erick.garcia.luna/open-letter-to-the-editors-e65482976de7">Medium</a>, disputing the abuse allegations and further maintaining that the Minnesota lawmaker was both a &#8220;mentor and friend.&#8221; Klobuchar noted the letter to Berbue.
&#8220;Seventy [former staffers] wrote a letter with their names on it. All different people &#8212; the schedulers, the people who were my assistants, the chiefs of staff &#8212; saying they had a really good experience in our office,&#8221; Klobuchar told Berbue. &#8220;So, you always have that happen, but for me the key is having high standards for myself, my staff, and our country.&#8221;

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This week, four of the top candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Julian Castro and Bernie Sanders — gathered at the J Street Conference to explain why the United States ought to pressure the state of Israel to make concessions to terrorists, why the Obama administration was correct to appease the Iranian regime and why American Jews ought to value the opinions of Bernie Sanders over those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the future of Jewish safety. Two other top Democrats — Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden — sent video messages in support of the group.
By contrast, when the American Israel Public Affairs Committee held its annual conference in March, not a single Democratic presidential candidate showed up. The Democrats are, by and large, simply too ashamed to stand with an actual pro-Israel group, although prominent congressional leaders still show up to mouth nostrums about bipartisan support for Israel.
But the heart of the Democratic Party has moved against Israel. That&#8217;s because Israel is economically successful, while its enemies are not; Israel is liberal, while its enemies are not; Israel is the tip of the spear of Western civilization in an area known for its tribalism and brutality. This means that according to the radical left, Israel is an exploitative country hell-bent on domination, despite its lack of territorial ambition — Israel has signed over large swaths of land won through military victory to geopolitical enemies, and offered much more repeatedly.
So the Democrats built up and gave credence to J Street, a Trojan horse group dedicated to undermining American support for Israel and justifying left-wing hatred of the Jewish state. J Street was founded by Clinton operative Jeremy Ben-Ami and Israeli far-left political figure Daniel Levy in late 2007. One of its chief sources of funding — a source obscured in the early years by its founders — was anti-Israel radical George Soros.
The media quickly began treating J Street as a legitimate representative of mainstream Jewish opinion on Israel, and so did Democrats, particularly in the anti-Israel Obama administration: Rather than having to deal with those troublesome actually pro-Israel voices at AIPAC, it was easier to bring in a few ringers from J Street to pretend that advocating for negotiations with Hamas represented an acceptable opinion in the pro-Israel community.
Read the rest <a href="https://www.creators.com/read/ben-shapiro">here</a>.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) revealed on Thursday morning that she has officially qualified to participate in the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) fifth presidential primary debate in Georgia.
&#8220;We just qualified for the November Democratic debate! Thanks to everyone for working so hard, making a small donation, and helping us grow our momentum,&#8221; Klobuchar said on Twitter. &#8220;We&#8217;ve made so much progress, but we need to keep going. Donate to our campaign today!&#8221;
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We just qualified for the November Democratic debate! Thanks to everyone for working so hard, making a small donation, and helping us grow our momentum. We’ve made so much progress, but we need to keep going. Donate to our campaign today! <a href="https://t.co/iVg91M9DTq">https://t.co/iVg91M9DTq</a>
&mdash; Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) <a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1187374005906542592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A certified poll conducted by <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3646">Quinnipiac University</a> shows that the Minnesota lawmaker received 3% support in the nationwide contest. The poll, released on Tuesday, marks the final benchmark that she needed to overcome on order to receive an invitation onto the stage.
Klobuchar enjoyed a surge of attention and fundraising in the wake of her performance in last week&#8217;s debate in Ohio. The three-term senator has positioned herself as one of the more moderate Democrats seeking the party&#8217;s nomination.
While appearing on the debate stage, Klobuchar clashed with her progressive rivals and publicly criticized their signature policy proposal, Medicare for All. She notably attacked Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for not being forthcoming with the American people and failing to admit that she would likely have to raise taxes in order to help fund the estimated $34 trillion plan.
In the 24 hours following the debate, Klobuchar&#8217;s campaign announced that it had generated $1.1 million in donations, making it the best day of online fundraising yet. The money is a significant haul for Klobuchar, who reported $4.8 million in third quarter donations and $3.9 million in second quarter donations.
Klobuchar is now the ninth presidential hopeful to meet the qualifying threshold and subsequently accept an invitation onto the debate stage: Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), financier Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and entrepreneur Andrew Yang will also be participating.
In order to nab a podium on the upcoming Georgia debate stage, presidential hopefuls must raise campaign donations from no fewer than 165,000 individual donors. In addition, they must also receive at least 3% of the vote in four general DNC-approved polls and 5% in two early-state polls – such as those in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, or South Carolina.
Former Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke (D-TX), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), and former House and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro all participated in October&#8217;s debate, but have not yet qualified for any future debates. While all three Democratic contenders have met the donor benchmark, they are still short of meeting the polling threshold.
To date, O&#8217;Rourke, Gabbard, and Castro have received 3% support in two, one, and zero DNC-approved polls, respectively. None of these candidates have hit 5% in an early voting state poll. Candidates still have until November 13 to reach the required threshold and qualify.
November&#8217;s debate will be presented jointly by MSNBC and The Washington Post on November 20. MSNBC revealed earlier in the week that the debate moderators will consist of an all-female panel: Rachel Maddow from MSNBC, Ashley Parker from The Washington Post, and both Andrea Mitchell and Kristen Welker from NBC News.

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Following strong Tuesday night performances, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, have come away from the debate stage with even stronger financial viability. 
On Wednesday, Lis Smith, a senior advisor to Pete Buttigieg, announced on Twitter the Buttigieg campaign had raised $1 million in the aftermath of the first debate. The campaign indicated that the donations had come from “tens of thousands of donors.”
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— Lis Smith (@Lis_Smith) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lis_Smith/status/1184530421733822471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
Klobuchar also announced on Twitter that she raised $1.1 million in the 24 hours after the debate. The fundraising haul is the largest amount Klobuchar has received in any single day while running for president, and is nearly 20% of the amount she raised in the entire third quarter of 2019.
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WE DID IT! Together we raised $1.1M in the 24 hours since the debate! This couldn&#8217;t have happened without you and your support. Let&#8217;s not stop! Keep the momentum going and donate today! <a href="https://t.co/iVg91M9DTq">https://t.co/iVg91M9DTq</a>
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) <a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1184665450292154371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
During the debate, Klobuchar attacked Warren for supporting “Medicare For All,” drawing attention to the fact that Warren has yet to explain how she would pay for single-payer health care for everybody. 
“At least Bernie’s being honest here and saying how he’s gonna pay for this, and that taxes are going to go up,” Klobuchar told Warren, as reported by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000006761445/klobuchar-warren-health-care.html">The New York Times</a>. “We owe it to the American people to tell them where we’re going to send the invoice.”
After Warren deflected from Klobuchar’s criticism, Klobuchar rebutted, proclaiming that “the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can actually get done.”
A new study released by the <a href="https://www.urban.org/research/publication/incremental-comprehensive-health-reform-how-various-reform-options-compare-coverage-and-costs">Urban Institute</a>, a liberal think tank, showed that a plan similar to “Medicare for All” would increase federal health care spending by around $32.5 trillion dollars over the next decade.
As the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-moderate-2020-democrats-rip-elizabeth-warren-over-medicare-for-all-you-are-making-republican-talking-points">Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Buttigieg attacked Warren for not being honest about how “Medicare for All” would be funded.
“Look, this is why people here in the midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular,” Buttigieg told Warren during the debate. “Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything — except this. No plan has been laid out to explain how a multi-trillion dollar hole in this ‘Medicare for All’ plan that Senator Warren is putting forward is supposed to get filled in.”
In another startling debate moment, Buttigieg sparred with Beto O’Rourke after the former congressman suggested that Democrats were cowering on the issue of gun confiscation. 
“The problem isn’t the polls, the problem is the policy. And I don’t need lessons from you on courage, political or personal,” Buttigieg told O’Rourke on the debate stage Tuesday, as reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/10/15/pete-buttigieg-beto-orourke-gun-violence-2020-democratic-presidential-debate-cnn-nyt-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/cnn-new-york-times-democratic-debate/">CNN</a>. “Everyone on this stage is determined to get something done. Everyone on this stage recognizes — or at least I thought we did — the problem is not other Democrats who don’t agree with your particular idea of how to handle this.” 
However, Buttigieg was not moderate on the issue, as he proceeded to place blame on the NRA and “their enablers in congress.”
According to <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a>, Buttigieg is currently polling in fourth behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Klobuchar, who has failed to gain as much traction, is polling in eighth behind businessman Andrew Yang.

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During Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, Amy Klobuchar (D-WI) told debate moderator Marc Lacey that opioid manufacturers should be held responsible for the opioid epidemic. 
“The people that should pay for this, that should pay for the treatment, are the very people that got people hooked and killed them in the first place, and that is the people that are manufacturing these opioids,” said Klobuchar. 
Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) agreed with Klobuchar, stating that the opioid crisis would continue “until we hold those responsible accountable.”
But when Lacey asked Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) about what she would do about the opioid crisis, Harris declared that drug company executives should be sent to jail, calling it a “matter of justice.”
<blockquote>LACEY: Senator Harris, you want to hold the drug manufacturers that fueled the crisis accountable. Are you in favor of sending those drug company executives to jail?
HARRIS: I am. And I will tell you, as a former prosecutor, I do think of it as being a matter of justice and accountability because they are nothing more than some high-level dope dealers. They have been engaged &#8212; 
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HARRIS: And I’ve seen it happen before. I’ve taken on the pharmaceutical companies when I was attorney general of California and led the second largest department of justice. I’ve seen what they do. The biggest pharmaceutical companies, the eight biggest companies and insurance companies last year profited $72 billion on the backs of people like the families that we are talking about, that have been overwhelmed by this crisis, which is a public health epidemic. 
And they knew what they were doing, they were marketing false advertising, they knew what they were pushing in communities in states like Ohio, without any concern about the repercussions because they were profiting and making big bucks. And yes, they should be held accountable, this is a matter of justice. 
And so as president of the United States, I would ensure that the United States Department of Justice understands that you want to deal with who is really a criminal? Let’s end mass incarceration and end that failed war on drugs, and let’s go after these pharmaceutical companies for what they’ve been doing to destroy our country in states like Ohio. </blockquote>
Harris has previously been criticized for her failure to promote &#8220;justice&#8221; as Attorney General of California. 
On Monday, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/kamala-harris-offices-fought-payments-to-wrongly-convicted">Bloomberg</a> published a report showing that Kamala Harris’s office refused to pay a man who was wrongfully convicted of rape, and even tried to force him into joining the sex offender registry list. Gerald Schwartzbach, the man’s lawyer, told Bloomberg that Harris’ office “penalized an innocent man with technical arguments,” which he calls “contradictory to the whole purpose of the criminal justice system.”
Last August, as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-most-searched-name-google-once-again-paul-bois">Daily Wire</a> reported, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) became the most-searched Democratic presidential candidate on Google after she brought attention to Harris’ problematic record as a prosecutor. 
<blockquote>GABBARD: I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively impacting black and brown people all across this country today. Now Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president.
But I’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence — she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.</blockquote>

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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) railed against their progressive presidential rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday for not being honest about her Medicare for All plan.
&#8220;Look, this is why people here in the midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular,&#8221; Buttigieg told Warren during the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) primary debate in Westerville, Ohio. &#8220;Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything &#8212; except, this. No plan has been laid out to explain how a multi-trillion dollar hole in this Medicare for All plan that Senator Warren is putting forward is supposed to get filled in.&#8221;
&#8220;The thing is, we really can deliver health care for every American and move forward with the boldest, biggest, transformation since the inception of medicare itself,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;&#8230; we take a version of Medicare, we let you access it if you want to, and if you prefer to stay on your private plan you can do that, too. That is what most Americans want &#8212;  Medicare for All Who Want It &#8212; trusting you to make the right decision for your healthcare and for your family, and it can be delivered without an increase on the middle class.&#8221;
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Buttigieg&#8217;s remarks were in reference to Warren&#8217;s endorsement of a single-payer health insurance plan that would abolish the private insurance market and subsequently force roughly 150 million Americans who are currently enrolled in private insurance plans to switch to a government-run program.
&#8220;Medicare for All is the gold standard. It&#8217;s the way we get health care coverage for every single American, including the family whose child has been diagnosed with cancer, including the person who has just gotten an MS diagnosis,&#8221; Warren said. &#8220;That&#8217;s how we make sure that everyone gets health care.&#8221;
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced legislation during his 2016 presidential campaign that would have enacted universal health care. While his campaign previously contended that the proposal would cost taxpayers about $14 trillion over the next decade, most other estimates are significantly higher. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget <a href="http://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-will-medicare-all-cost">forecast Sanders’ plan</a> costing $28 trillion during the first 10 years, which is in the range of other estimates.
Sanders has conceded that a Medicare for All plan would raise Americans&#8217; taxes, but he contends that the overall benefit of lower health care costs will compensate for the increase. Warren, however, has refused to admit that under her plan taxes will spike.
&#8220;At least Bernie is being honest here and saying how he is going to pay for this and that taxes are going to go up,&#8221; Klobuchar told Warren. &#8220;And I&#8217;m sorry, Elizabeth, but you have not said that and we owe it to the American people to tell them where we will send the invoice.&#8221;
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Amy Klobuchar challenges Elizabeth Warren on healthcare at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a>: &quot;I appreciate Elizabeth&#39;s work. But again, the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can actually get done.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/PRWL3USwvQ">https://t.co/PRWL3USwvQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/oYrHEnA0Tq">pic.twitter.com/oYrHEnA0Tq</a>
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Like Buttigieg, the Minnesota senator put forth that rather than kicking millions of people off their preferred insurance plans, the government should build upon former President Barack Obama&#8217;s Affordable Care Act and expand the number of people covered under the public option.
&#8220;I&#8217;m tired of hearing whenever I say these things, it&#8217;s Republican talking points,&#8221; Klobuchar said. &#8220;You are making Republican talking points right now in this room by coming out for a plan that&#8217;s going to do that. I think there&#8217;s a better way that is bold that will cover more people. It&#8217;s the one we should get behind.&#8221;

WATCH: Moderate 2020 Democrats Rip Elizabeth Warren Over Medicare For All: &#8216;You Are Making Republican Talking Points&#8217;

Comedian Bill Maher of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time&#8221; took serious aim at the far-left on his show last night, deriding the extremism as &#8220;bulls***&#8221; while  denouncing the candidacies of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Speaking with radio shock jock Howard Stern, Maher said, &#8220;&#8230; [Y]ou and I are the last sane people because we&#8217;re liberals but we don&#8217;t go for all the bulls*** on the far-left.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-touts-amy-klobuchar-as-the-dark-horse-candidate-rips-bulls-on-far-left">Fox News</a>, Maher also said that Warren and Sanders were too &#8220;far-left&#8221; to win 2020 and proposed running Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) as a possible &#8220;dark horse&#8221; candidate due to former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s current troubles. He made his point during a one-on-one interview with the candidate.
&#8220;Obviously this is a fight between two wings of the party, which is almost every election. There is a center in the Democrat, a center-left wing. You&#8217;re plenty liberal. You&#8217;re plenty progressive,&#8221; Maher told Klobuchar. &#8220;And then there is a far-left which I think would be represented by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.&#8221;
Playing it diplomatically, Klobuchar only pushed her moderate-left platform while criticizing their far-left agenda.
&#8220;I want to win big and if someone is looking to kick one hundred forty nine million Americans off their current health insurance in four years then I&#8217;m not your candidate,&#8221; Klobuchar said. &#8220;If you want to use a bunch of hardworking people&#8217;s money to send rich people&#8217;s kids to college for free and I&#8217;m not your candidate. And just because people say ideas are bold doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re bold. They may be bad.&#8221;
Maher later said Klobuchar would have a slight advantage as a woman.
&#8220;I&#8217;m saying it&#8217;s a lot easier to be on the center side of things, as Obama was, if you are not a white man,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;If you&#8217;re a white straight man.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to make clear and I am excited to be one of several women in this race. But I&#8217;m not just running on that,&#8221; she responded.
&#8220;I think your moment is to come,&#8221; Maher said.
If Klobuchar were to actually become a &#8220;dark horse&#8221; candidate, she would surely face a serious challenge to her reputation. Earlier this year, as rumors of Klobuchar’s 2020 announcement loomed, the Huffington Post released a scathing report in which former staff members said the Minnesota senator was prone to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43203/report-dem-2020-hopeful-amy-klobuchar-losing-staff-emily-zanotti">bursts of cruelty</a>.” She also reportedly has the highest turnover rate of staff in the Senate.
“Several former staffers reportedly told the Huffington Post that Klobuchar is prone to ‘bursts of cruelty’ and to sending strings of abusive and belittling emails to staff in the middle of the night,” reported The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti. “Others said that Klobuchar ‘tasked them or their co-workers with performing personal errands, such as making her personal appointments, washing dishes at her home or picking up her dry cleaning’ — duties senate staff members are prohibited from doing.”
Klobuchar has denied all accusations of cruelty.
“Senator Klobuchar loves her staff ― they are the reason she has gotten to where she is today,” a Klobuchar spokesperson told the Huffington Post. “She has many staff who have been with her for years ― including her Chief of Staff and her State Director, who have worked for her for 5 and 7 years respectively ― and many who have gone on to do amazing things, from working in the Obama Administration (over 20 of them) to running for office to even serving as the Agriculture Commissioner for Minnesota. She is proud of them and the work they have done for Minnesota.”

Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles &#8211; January 18, 2017

Bill Maher: ‘We Don’t Go For All The Bulls*** On The Far Left’

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Amy Jean Klobuchar has served since 2007 as a U.S. senator from Minnesota. Initially the state&#8217;s junior senator, Klobuchar has served as Minnesota&#8217;s senior senator since Democrat Al Franken&#8217;s <a href="https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2010/07/20/al-franken-may-have-won-his-senate-seat-through-voter-fraud">controversial</a> defeat of incumbent Republican Norm Coleman in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party — or, more specifically, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party — Klobuchar previously served as county attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. Although hardly centrist by recently historical, Bill Clinton-era Democratic Party standards, Klobuchar now seeks the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination by orienting herself as centrist-inclined and possessing a vague aura of Midwestern sensibility. In current 2020 Democratic presidential nomination <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/">polling</a>, Klobuchar currently gets national support in the low single digits.
Klobuchar, a Minnesota native, has a bachelor degree from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Chicago. Earlier in her legal career, Klobuchar worked as a corporate attorney before becoming a local prosecutor. Her name was sometimes floated as a possible U.S. Supreme Court nominee during President Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency. Klobuchar serves on the influential U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where her tone and demeanor during the inflammatory Brett Kavanaugh nomination saga placed her, alongside Committee member Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), firmly on the less hysterical wing of the raucous Senate Democratic caucus. Klobuchar still voted against Kavanaugh&#8217;s nomination.
Klobuchar is married to fellow attorney and legal academic John Bessler. They have one daughter, Abigail.
Electoral History: Klobuchar first entered the public sphere in 1994, where she initially declared a run for county attorney of Hennepin County before dropping out. She successfully sought the same position in 1998, winning narrowly. In 2002, she was easily re-elected to the local prosecutor perch.
In 2006, Klobuchar announced her U.S. Senate run for the seat vacated by incumbent Sen. Mark Dayton (D-MN). She won the DFL Party primary in a landslide and easily won the general election. Klobuchar was subsequently re-elected by huge margins in both 2012 and 2018.
Klobuchar now seeks the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
On The Issues: Klobuchar&#8217;s prosecutorial background, gentle public (though <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43852/klobuchar-abusive-toward-staff-stories-eating-hank-berrien">perhaps not private</a>) demeanor, and background from a largely rural state combine to make her somewhat more centrist-oriented than many of her 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination rivals. However, Klobuchar can still be fairly characterized as a full-spectrum leftist/progressive. Her 2020 presidential campaign <a href="https://amyklobuchar.com">emphasizes</a> universal/socialized medicine and climate change, among other issues.
Constitution: Klobuchar consistently supports a leftist/progressive view of the Constitution and rule of law. She supports Roe v. Wade and <a href="https://amyklobuchar.com/issues/a-strong-democracy/">opposes</a> Citizens United v. F.E.C., the Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark political speech-affirming ruling in 2010. Klobuchar is generally defensive of Fourth Amendment-inspired civil liberties, although she had a more centrist record on the National Security Agency&#8217;s surveillance programs earlier in her Senate career. She supports gun control measures that would restrict Americans&#8217; Second Amendment rights. Klobuchar <a href="https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/historic-comprehensive-lgbt-non-discrimination-legislation-re-introduced-in-congress/">supports</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47176/hammer-house-democrats-equality-act-both-josh-hammer">Equality Act</a>, which would expand LGBT protections at the behest of private property rights and religious conscience rights alike. Her expansive view of the federal government&#8217;s role in regulating the economy is consistent with legal progressivism.
Economy: Klobuchar supports a robust role for the federal government in matters pertaining to economic regulation and, more generally, her views on economics reflect those of modern progressivism. Klobuchar&#8217;s 2020 campaign website touts her belief in the need for &#8220;<a href="https://amyklobuchar.com/issues/shared-prosperity-and-economic-justice/">shared prosperity</a>,&#8221; and supports a greater governmental role in <a href="https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/government-and-politics/4427911-klobuchar-leads-roundtable-discussion-child-care-shortage">child care</a>. Like many of her 2020 Democratic presidential rivals, she <a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1098652573685477378?lang=en">supports increasing</a> the federal minimum wage to $15. Klobuchar supports greater governmental investment in infrastructure. She supports strong labor unions and opposes &#8220;right to work&#8221; laws that would increase worker freedom.
Health Care: Klobuchar supports &#8220;universal health care,&#8221; which effectively would amount to socialized medicine in America. Earlier in her Senate career, Klobuchar voted for Obamacare. She has recently <a href="https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/u-s-senator-tammy-baldwin-helps-reintroduce-legislation-to-create-state-public-health-care-option/">co-sponsored legislation</a> that would expand Medicaid access across the 50 states.
Immigration: Klobuchar has taken a hard line in support of the DREAM Act and other amnesty legislative initiatives that would undermine America&#8217;s sovereignty and empower brutal Mexican cartels and human trafficking rings. She supports a full <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1097709817404235777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1097709817404235777&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twincities.com%2F2019%2F02%2F18%2Fklobuchars-cnn-town-hall-five-questions-and-how-she-answered-them%2F">pathway to citizenship</a> for the vast majority of America&#8217;s illegal alien population. She has been a consistently harsh critic of the Trump administration&#8217;s attempts to secure our border amidst a hitherto unprecedented influx there of Central American migrants. Klobuchar has been harshly critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the Trump administration. She has been <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/439339-20-dems-demand-no-more-money-for-ice-agents-trump-wall">very skeptical</a> of the utility of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Foreign Policy: Klobuchar&#8217;s 2020 campaign <a href="https://amyklobuchar.com/issues/a-safer-world/">website</a> seems to pinpoint China and Russia as America&#8217;s two top national security threats. More generally, throughout her Senate career, she has taken a harder line on China than have many of her Democratic colleagues. Klobuchar was an Iraq War skeptic earlier in her Senate career, and has supported arms reductions measures with Russia. Klobuchar supported President Obama&#8217;s 2011 intervention in Libya, which resulted in Libya turning into a destabilized jihadist stronghold. She supported President Obama&#8217;s 2015 Iran nuclear deal and opposed President Trump&#8217;s decision to remove the U.S. from the <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&amp;id=120">non-binding</a> accord. In February 2019, she <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/why-these-democratic-presidential-hopefuls-voted-no-on-an-anti-bds-bill-1.6919089">voted for</a> Senate Republicans&#8217; introduced anti-BDS legislation.
Abortion: Klobuchar is emphatically pro-abortion, vigorously supports Roe v. Wade, and <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/19/sen_amy_klobuchar_new_abortion_restrictions_are_a_violation_of_civil_rights.html">opposes restrictions</a> on late-term abortion. Like many of her 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination rivals, she <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-candidates-hyde-amendment-abortion_n_5cf964b5e4b06af8b50570bd">supports overturning the Hyde Amendment</a>, which has historically proscribed taxpayer funding of abortion.
Guns: Despite her representation of a largely rural state, Klobuchar has a historically poor record on Second Amendment issues. Klobuchar supports &#8220;universal&#8221; background checks, which often serve as a rhetorical euphemism for the government serving as an intermediary in all private firearms transfers. She <a href="https://amyklobuchar.com/issues/a-safer-world/">supports</a> a ban on the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could lead to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.

Where Does Amy Klobuchar Stand On The Issues? Here’s Everything You Need To Know.

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Last night, Robert Francis &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke doubled down, in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51718/beto-says-hell-yes-were-going-take-americans-guns-james-barrett">rather colorful fashion</a>, on his vow to confiscate from law-abiding Americans their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51381/hammer-i-will-never-ever-let-government-buy-back-josh-hammer">cherished</a> rifles whose <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44327/hammer-here-are-three-core-reasons-oppose-ban-josh-hammer">cosmetically amorphous and technically undefinable</a> features lead leftists to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50263/hammer-conservatives-must-not-go-soft-assault-josh-hammer">peculiarly label</a> them so-called &#8220;assault weapons.&#8221; &#8220;Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke said to enthusiastic audience applause, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s James Barrett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51718/beto-says-hell-yes-were-going-take-americans-guns-james-barrett">reported</a>.
Last night, furthermore, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43796/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">communist</a> loonbag <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48572/where-does-bernie-sanders-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">Bernie Sanders</a> and demagogic harridan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48596/where-does-elizabeth-warren-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">Elizabeth Warren</a> each doubled down in their joint defense of a one-size-fits-all socialized medicine national health care takeover that would, in the estimate of fellow 2020 presidential contender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49364/where-does-amy-klobuchar-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">Amy Klobuchar</a>, strip over 140 million Americans of their privately held health insurance plans. Joe Biden, the purported &#8220;moderate&#8221; in this hellish menagerie, parroted last night the &#8220;no one will lose his doctor under Obamacare&#8221; ruse — a ruse, that is, which was literally exposed by left-leaning PolitiFact as its 2013 &#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221; with respect to the very underlying health care plan Biden now haplessly touts.
All of this, of course, came precisely two primary debates after open-borders zealot Julian Castro decided to hail the pagan glory that is abortion for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49056/hammer-democratic-party-fundamentally-unfit-lead-josh-hammer">&#8220;trans females&#8221;</a> — which would be biological men who subjectively feel as if they are women. The careful reader — or really anyone who has ever opened a biology textbook — will note that a member of the human species with both X and Y chromosomes, otherwise known as a man, cannot possibly procure an abortion even if he desires to do so. Yet we are still reliably informed that the Democrats, who have never seen a statist economic program they didn&#8217;t tendentiously glom onto under the hectoring veneer of &#8220;climate change,&#8221; are the Party of Science™.
I am not sure if the Democrats are the Party of Science. But I do know that the modern Democratic Party, which promotes youngsters who would&#8217;ve been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49515/hammer-aocs-squad-will-destroy-democrats-2020-josh-hammer">right at home in the Soviet Politburo</a> and remains emphatically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51709/hammer-democratic-party-fatally-attracted-hardcore-josh-hammer">in the throes of its leftist base</a>, has not merely become <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/49056/hammer-democratic-party-fundamentally-unfit-lead-josh-hammer">fundamentally unfit</a> to govern the United States of America. It has also become an utter parody of its very self.
For decades, Republicans have mocked Democratic anti-gun proposals by calling them &#8220;gun grabbers.&#8221; Now, Beto O&#8217;Rourke is literally promoting — and <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/13/beto-orourke-selling-t-shirts-hell-yes-were-going-/">fundraising</a> off of! — his proposal to forcibly confiscate the firearms of tens of millions of peaceful, law-abiding gun owners. In <a href="http://theresurgent.com/2019/09/13/is-beto-orourke-trying-to-sabotage-the-democrats-again/">sabotaging</a> his own party, O&#8217;Rourke has outed the Democratic id for the masses to see — and boy, is it <a href="https://twitter.com/MattMackowiak/status/1172315168446935040">ugly</a>.
For years if not decades, Republicans have ridiculed Democratic health care proposals by asserting their pie-in-the-sky pipe dreams on socializing medicine would inevitably lead to the stripping away of private health insurance for tens of millions of Americans. Now, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">two of the top three contenders</a> for the Democrats&#8217; 2020 presidential nomination, are advocating for precisely that. A major political party entertained a genuine policy debate last night on the efficacy and morality of eradicating the health insurance plans of over 140 million Americans. Think about that for a second.
For years, Republicans have sneered at Democrats that their anti-biology crusade in the realm of normalizing &#8220;transgenderism&#8221; was, ultimately, untenable. Biology, many conservatives have told their Party of Science™ counterparts, is immutable. Now, Julian Castro advocates <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51556/hammer-bernies-pagan-support-child-sacrifice-josh-hammer">pagan-esque unborn child sacrifice for Moloch</a> for a &#8220;class&#8221; of human beings who are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48927/walsh-democrats-put-their-scientific-illiteracy-matt-walsh">biologically incapable of bearing children</a>. Contemporary fealty to political correctness apparently demands such devout obeisance to the LGBTQ+ alphabet soup lobby such that science itself must be subordinated and shunned.
We are truly through the looking-glass.
Forget The Onion. Forget The Babylon Bee. Parody is here, and its name is the Democratic Party.

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HAMMER: The Democratic Party Has Become A Parody Of Itself

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Comedy Central&#8217;s &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; mocked Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Thursday for repeatedly using the same &#8220;joke&#8221; throughout her campaign for president.
Klobuchar revealed that she was officially launching a bid for the presidency in February while appearing in front of a snow-covered crowd in Boom Island Park, Minnesota. As she pledged to win back states that President Donald Trump won during the 2016 election, snow began piling up on both the Minnesota senator and the crowd below.
&#8220;Well, it happened again,&#8221; Trump replied at the time. &#8220;Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1094718856197799936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Bad timing,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman).&#8221;
&#8220;Science is on my side, [President Trump]. Looking forward to debating you about climate change (and many other issues),&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1094744351803170816?s=20">Klobuchar responded</a>. &#8220;And I wonder how your hair would fare in a blizzard?&#8221;
However, despite receiving minimal laughs for the joke, the Democratic presidential hopeful has repeatedly referenced the tweet as an example of her humor during her time on the campaign trail.
The &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; compiled a montage of the numerous times that Klobuchar has echoed the joke.
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The three-term senator has a reputation of being particularly surly, especially in private. Only days prior to Klobuchar&#8217;s campaign launch, multiple reports surfaced alleging that she is verbally abusive to her congressional staffers and, furthermore, that she creates an office environment fueled by intimidation.
&#8220;But behind the doors of her Washington D.C., office, the Minnesota Democrat ran a workplace controlled by fear, anger, and shame, according to interviews with eight former staffers, one that many employees found intolerably cruel. She demeaned and berated her staff almost daily, subjecting them to bouts of explosive rage and regular humiliation within the office,&#8221; <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/amy-klobuchar-staff-2020-election">BuzzFeed News</a> reported in February.
One former staffer stated that Klobuchar would often yell and throw papers, and even recalled a time when another aide was hit with a binder during a fit of rage.
&#8220;I cried,&#8221; the staffer told BuzzFeed. &#8220;I cried, like, all the time.&#8221;
Another <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-staff.html">report emerged</a> weeks later detailing a story where a former staffer prepared a salad for the senator to eat during a flight in 2008. As the story goes, the staffer dropped the fork and was unable to find a new one prior to take off. Consequently, after Klobuchar castigated the staffer over the accident, she took out a comb from her bag and began to eat her salad with it. When she was finished, she demanded the staffer clean the comb.
She has denied the accuracy of the reports.
Klobuchar is currently considered to be a second- or third-tier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. While she is one of only ten candidates to have qualified to participate in the upcoming Democratic National Committee (DNC) debate, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html#polls">she is polling</a> with less than 1% national support, on average.

WATCH: The Daily Show Mocks Amy Klobuchar With A Compilation Of Her Greatest ‘Joke’

The Daily Show

President Donald Trump prolonged the feud between himself and the so-called &#8220;Squad&#8221; by proclaiming he will win Minnesota in the 2020 election in part because of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) anti-Semitic rhetoric.
&#8220;In 2016 I almost won Minnesota,&#8221; Trump tweeted on Tuesday. &#8220;In 2020, because of America hating anti-Semite Rep. Omar, [and] the fact that Minnesota is having its best economic year ever, I will win the State!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">In 2016 I almost won Minnesota. In 2020, because of America hating anti-Semite Rep. Omar, &amp; the fact that Minnesota is having its best economic year ever, I will win the State! “We are going to be a nightmare to the President,” she say. No, AOC Plus 3 are a Nightmare for America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1153648770883706880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The president narrowly lost the state of Minnesota in 2016 to his challenger Hillary Clinton. Clinton edged out Trump by less than two points; she obtained only 46.1% of the vote, while Trump won only 44.6%. Interestingly, <a href="https://www.sos.state.mn.us/election-administration-campaigns/data-maps/historical-voter-turnout-statistics/">voter turnout</a> was down roughly two points in the state since the prior presidential election and nearly four points since the 2008 presidential election.
Trump has been involved in an ongoing quarrel with four freshmen congresswomen, collectively referred to as the Squad. The Squad, consisting of Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), has been a recent target of the president for their socialist policy prescriptions and anti-American and anti-Israel rhetoric.
However, the Squad has been attributing racial motives to the president’s criticism of the progressive lawmakers, and the media has largely followed suit.
&#8220;[Trump’s] nightmare is seeing a Somali immigrant refugee rise to Congress. His nightmare is seeing he beautiful mosaic fabric of our country welcome someone like me as their member of Congress home to Minnesota,&#8221; Omar said after she arrived to a crowd of supporters after flying back home earlier in July. &#8220;We are going to continue to be a nightmare to this president.&#8221;
The president addressed Omar’s remarks on Tuesday responding instead that &#8220;[Ocasio-Cortez] plus 3 are a Nightmare for America!&#8221;
Omar and Tlaib became America’s first Muslim congresswomen when sworn into office in January. Along with Ocasio-Cortez, the three House Democrats have been embroiled in allegations of anti-Semitism and anti-American sentiments even prior to taking office.
Omar has defended her own anti-Semitic statements, such as ones invoking Allah to expose Israel’s &#8220;evil doings&#8221; as well as promoting age-old anti-Semitic canards such as that Jews’ support of Israel is purchased and that they have a dual loyalty to the United States and Israel.
Both Omar and Tlaib sided with Hamas in May after the Palestinian terrorist organization launched nearly 600 rockets into Israel from across the Gaza border in a 24-hour period. Hamas subsequently claimed responsibility for multiple Israeli deaths.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, responded to Trump’s comments and defended Omar.
“You’ll never win Minnesota, Donald Trump. I’ll make sure of it. Our state economy is strong because of our great workers and businesses,” Klobuchar said. “And the last time I checked, racist words and putting a congresswoman and her family in harm’s way aren’t very popular in our state.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">You&#8217;ll never win Minnesota, Donald Trump. I&#8217;ll make sure of it. Our state economy is strong because of our great workers and businesses. And the last time I checked, racist words and putting a congresswoman and her family in harm’s way aren’t very popular in our state. <a href="https://t.co/PF9r2a7U6h">https://t.co/PF9r2a7U6h</a>
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) <a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1153653853352599558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Klobuchar is polling at 1% on average, according to <a href="mailto:https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html%23polls">Real Clear Politics</a>.
&#8220;We are confident that President Trump will win the states he won in 2016 and add even more to his column in 2020, Minnesota included,&#8221; Tim Murtaugh, the director of communications for Trump’s 2020 campaign told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The Minnesota economy is roaring in the Trump economy, with even lower unemployment than the already-low national average, reversing the problems of the Obama years.&#8221;
&#8220;We used to hear about people looking for jobs, but now we have jobs looking for people. Meanwhile, the Democrats are promising to raise taxes to pay for their massive government programs and propose a government takeover of health care, which would kick almost 3.5 million Minnesotans off their private health insurance,&#8221; Murtaugh continued. &#8220;The choice will be clear in 2020 and President Trump’s campaign will have all the resources it needs to win Minnesota.&#8221;
Omar’s office did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment.

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