MN-GOV: Will Amy Klobuchar run for Minnesota governor? 'I'm seriously considering it,' she says
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Tuesday that she was actively weighing a bid for governor, a day after Gov. Tim Walz abandoned his re-election campaign as a welfare-fraud scandal in his state complicated his path to a third term.
“I love my job, I love my state and I’m seriously considering it,” Klobuchar told CNN in a brief interview as she walked onto the Senate floor for an afternoon vote.
The announcement from Walz – capping a remarkable fall 16 months after he was tapped to become the Democratic vice presidential nominee – could touch off a domino-like reaction for midterm races in Minnesota. He declined Tuesday to weigh in on a successor, telling reporters: “I think we have a very deep bench.”
Klobuchar, who has served in Washington for two decades, has been “getting a lot of outreach, encouraging her to run,” a person close to her previously told CNN. She has not offered a timeline for when she will decide.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/politics/amy-klobuchar-tim-walz-minnesota-governor
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