Klobuchar “has a record of winning Trump voters in Minnesota,” says one ally, “and that’s important when people say their highest priority is picking a nominee who will defeat the president in November”
The Minnesota senator is not a hardcore lefty, in contrast to socialist Sanders and decriminalize-the-bordersThat Goldilocks appeal—plus a strong debate performance in December—has lately earned Klobuchar a spate of glowing coverage from centrist pundits. She has also enjoyed a surge in campaign donations and a modest bump in some polls. But it is very difficult to actually win with what you’re not.
The first comes Tuesday night, in Des Moines, at the final Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses. As the Sanders–Warren war erupts to her left, Klobuchar will try to chip away at the more moderate rivals in front of her, Buttigieg and Biden. In last month’s debate she scored points at the expense of Buttigieg, and Klobuchar may well try to sharpen the contrast. “Amy is honest and consistent,” one of her allies says. “She’s always been in the moderate lane and Pete has moved her way.
Buttigieg will certainly be prepared to counter. An adviser to the South Bend mayor brings up Klobuchar unsolicited, and is highly skeptical of her ability to convert good debate moments into votes. “We’ve had people on the ground in Iowa since last spring, and as of last week we had more than double the Iowa staff she had,” the Buttigieg ally says. “When Pete had his debate-stage moments over the summer and fall, we were in a position to use that.
Klobuchar’s camp believes Buttigieg isn’t her only rival with soft support. Her pitch to Biden voters, however, is more nuanced, and turns on similarities instead of differences. She’s an ideological moderate, just like Joe; she believes in reaching across the partisan aisle, just like Joe. Electability, the former vice president’s greatest strength? Klobuchar has earned the backing of general election swing voters a whole lot more recently than Biden.
The conventional wisdom is that the impending impeachment trial will cause trouble for the Democratic contenders who are sitting senators, pulling them off the campaign trail right as the caucuses close in. Klobuchar routinely emphasizes the need for the senate to perform its constitutional duty on impeachment. But the trial could very well give her an indirect campaign platform.
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