Amy Klobuchar joins 2020 Democratic presidential race
MINNEAPOLIS — Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced Sunday that she is running for president.
The Minnesota Democrat began her candidacy in front of a crowd of supporters gathered at Boom Island Park along the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis.
“I am running for every parent who wants a better world for their kids. I’m running for every student who wants a good education,” Klobuchar said. “For every senior who wants affordable prescription drugs. For every worker, farmer, dreamer and builder. I am running for every American. I am running for you.”
With the announcement, Klobuchar joined a growing roster of Democrats running for the nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020. The group includes four of her fellow U.S. senators and could grow to include a former vice president and other big names in the party.
Klobuchar emphasized her background as a homegrown Minnesotan, the daughter of a journalist and union worker whose grandfather worked in the Iron Range mines, before sharing stories of hardworking people across the country.
“That’s community, that’s a shared story, that’s ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” she said. “That sense of community is fractured across our nation, worn down by the petty and vicious nature of our politics.”