Amy Klobuchar

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Amy Klobuchar (2013)

Amy Jean Klobuchar (born May 25, 1960 in Plymouth , Minnesota ) is an American politician and member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party . She has been a member of the United States Senate since 2007 . In 2020, she applied for her party's nomination for the presidential election .

Family, education and work

Amy Klobuchar was born in Plymouth to journalist and author Jim Klobuchar and teacher Rose Katherine Heuberger. Her father is of Slovenian and her mother is of Swiss origin. After graduating from high school, she studied political science at Yale University . She received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1982 and earned her JD from the Law School of the University of Chicago in 1985. She then worked for various law firms and as a consultant for former US Vice President Walter Mondale . In 1998 she was elected Hennepin County District Attorney . She held this office until 2006.

She has been married to the legal scholar John Bessler since 1993 and has a daughter with him.

Political career

After Democratic Senator Mark Dayton announced early in 2005 that he would not run again, Klobuchar was considered the favorite to succeed him. On September 29, 2005, she announced her candidacy and prevailed in the party primary . In the Senate election on November 7, 2006 , Klobuchar received 58 percent of the vote and prevailed against Republican Mark Kennedy . She was sworn in as a senator in the 110th Congress of the United States on January 3, 2007 - as Minnesota's first elected senator. In the 2012 election she was re-elected with a clear majority, and in the 2018 election with 60 to 36 percent of the vote against Republican Jim Neuberger.

Klobuchar announced her candidacy for the 2020 presidential election on February 10, 2019 ; she had previously been traded as a possible candidate. Klobuchar was seen as a representative of a moderate, pragmatic course and, due to her Senate experience and popularity in the Midwest, had great opportunities. Having in the primary of New Hampshire had finished third, was by then overflowed three votes but knocked in the other, she said on March 2, 2020 withdrawal of their candidacy. On that eve of Super Tuesday , she spoke out for Joe Biden .

Positions

Klobuchar represents left-wing liberal views and is in favor of expanding social benefits and health insurance. She advocates the possibility of an abortion ( Pro-Choice ) and the strengthening of LGBT rights . She criticized the Iraq war and in January 2007 voted against President George W. Bush's plans to increase the number of troops in Iraq.

In September 2018 she said the nomination process for the controversial Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh was "abnormal". Her confrontation with Kavanaugh during his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in late September 2018 received a lot of attention.

According to the Bipartisan index of the Lugar Center, indicates how bipartisan congressmen and senators work Klobuchar was in the 115th Congress in the upper midfield. The Lugar Center rates her as the most non-partisan of the incumbent senators running for the presidency.

2020 presidential election campaign

Within the Democrats, Klobuchar is seen as a pragmatic representative of the political center . In her manifesto for the 2020 presidential election, she advocated abolishing the death penalty , legalizing marijuana and raising the minimum wage to $ 15. She campaigned for the abolition of tuition fees for the first two years at colleges, but spoke out against completely free higher education. She is for the expansion of renewable energies and nuclear energy and against offshore drilling. Klobuchar is committed to the Second Amendment , but advocates background checks for weapons purchases and a ban on semi-automatic weapons.

Klobuchar rejects universal health insurance ( Medicare for all ), but advocates an expansion of state health care. She advocates moderate tax increases for high-income earners while rejecting a wealth tax , abolishing the Electoral College , reducing spending on the military and punitive tariffs when the occasion arises . She is a proponent of the revised NAFTA -Abkommens USMCA .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maggie Malony, Who Is Amy Klobuchar's Husband, John Bessler? , Town & Country of March 30, 2020.
  2. ^ Minnesota US Senate Election Results. In: The New York Times , November 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Dylan Matthews: Who's overrated and who's underrated as a 2020 Democratic presidential prospect? In: Vox.com , September 14, 2018. See also the topic Amy Klobuchar 2020. In: Politico .
  4. ↑ Perry Bacon Jr .: Amy Klobuchar Looked Great On Paper. What Went Wrong? In: FiveThirtyEight , March 2, 2020.
  5. ↑ Klobuchar says Kavanaugh's confirmation is 'not normal'. In: Politico , September 2, 2018.
  6. ↑ Aaron Blake, David Weigel: Amy Klobuchar's big Brett Kavanaugh moment earned rave reviews. But is it what Democrats demand for 2020? In: The Washington Post , September 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ The Lugar Center and Georgetown University's McCourt School Unveil Bipartisan Index Rankings for 115th Congress , The Lugar Center, March 19, 2019 (accessed February 3, 2020).
  8. ↑ Matt Stevens: Amy Klobuchar In: The New York Times , February 3, 2019.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g Amy Klobuchar In: Politico , February 3, 2019.
  10. ^ Sandy Fitzgerald: Amy Klobuchar on Climate Change: Where the Candidate Stands. In: News Max , March 24, 2018.
  11. ↑ Dan Gearino: Sen. Klobuchar: Second Amendment Allows For Gun Control Laws. In: Inside Climate News , September 2, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Klobuchar, Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klobuchar, Amy Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Plymouth , Minnesota