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Democratic US Senator Amy Klobuchar has said she is running for governor in her home state of Minnesota amid the tumult of an ongoing immigration crackdown.
In a video released on Thursday, she called for unity across all parties, billing herself as someone who could heal political divisions and was “willing to find common ground”. Her candidacy comes after the incumbent governor, Tim Walz, announced he would end his re-election campaign early amid criticism of his handling of a fraud scandal in the state. Klobuchar, a four-term senator, reportedly delayed her announcement after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti on Saturday, two weeks after they also killed another US citizen, Renee Good.
These killings and other altercations have put the tactics and use of force by federal agents under intense scrutiny. The operation has become controversial due to these and other violent episodes which have been filmed and shared widely on social media. US President Donald Trump recently pledged to “de-escalate” the operation.
Klobuchar will be seen by many pundits as the frontrunner in November’s governor contest, as the best-known Democratic figure to declare their candidacy ahead of the primary elections. Republicans, meanwhile, have not won a statewide race since 2006. One Republican contender, Chris Madel, ended his own bid for state governor on Monday, citing the immigration enforcement in his state as an “unmitigated disaster”.
Referring to recent turmoil in her state, Klobuchar said in her video: “We cannot sugarcoat how hard this is. But in these moments of enormous difficulty, we find strength in our Minnesota values of hard work, freedom, and simple decency and goodwill.”
Klobuchar also addressed other incidents of violence that have rocked her state in recent months, including the murder of a state lawmaker and her husband, and the deadly shooting of two children inside a church.
Political observers suggested that the theme of her message was more centrist, compared with other Democratic candidates who have taken a more combative stance against the Trump administration. Klobuchar did not mention President Donald Trump by name, but referred to the deployment of about 3,000 federal immigration agents “on our streets and in our towns, sent by an administration that relishes division”.
She also referenced the fraud scandal that led to Walz ending his campaign, saying: “I will make sure the people who steal taxpayer money go to jail and root out the fraud.”
When announcing he would end his re-election bid, Walz said he would “focus on the work” of governor rather than a campaign. He has also said his government is taking measures to prevent future fraud. In her bio, Klobuchar describes herself as a veteran bipartisan lawmaker willing to work across the aisle. After being sworn into the Senate in her first term in 2007, Klobuchar has risen through the ranks and joined multiple committees, and had a stint as the chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee.
In a video released on Thursday, she called for unity across all parties, billing herself as someone who could heal political divisions and was “willing to find common ground”.
Common ground? The Klob will campaign and fundraise off ICE’s violence, murder, and their kidnapping people and their housing people in concentration camps including literal warehouses. And in the meantime - she’ll ask the republicans politely but firmly to tell ICE to follow the law. If she wins - she’ll keep asking. She’ll never do anything though. I bet she’ll eventually cry on camera. Maybe she’ll even mean it. And then later when The Klob needs votes - she’ll campaign and fundraise off ICE’s violence, murder, and…
That seems bad. Very, very bad.
The political instincts of Democrats are something else, I tell you what.
People in the streets of Minneapolis are calling for blood and she comes out calling for “finding common ground”? Who is she trying to appeal to?
Who is she trying to appeal to?
Capital. Back during the election, when Tim Walz even pretended to be confrontational with his “Republicans are weird” shtick, that kindergarten stuff was enough for big donors to get spooked and Walz got reigned in.
If Minneapolis is viewed the same way by the peripheral area as every other “big city” (“it’s a crimeridden madmax wasteland”), she’s appealing to
“For every vote we lose in the city, we pick up two in the suburbs” strategy that worked flawlessly in 2016 and 2024
I’m sure those people still think that way, but I get the feeling that even for suburbanites they want some revenge and not reaching across the aisle.
But the Dems are incapable of learning anything.
It’s kind of split. Some suburbs are basically extensions of the cities, but the further away you get, the more typically rural conservative you get. There’s also places like Bloomington in the south, which is very close to the cities, but used to be a Republican holdout and still maintains some of that. There’s a lot of people out there who at a minimum think the people killed shouldn’t have been there to ‘disrupt’ law enforcement, if they aren’t off the deep end ICE devotees.
Yeah but they’d vote for Republicans anyway, which is something Dems don’t get I think. Anyone who finds this reprehensible wants blood, not reconciliation.
Who is she trying to appeal to?
Radical centrists?
59 year old dweebs who think wearing “funky color” socks is an act of rebellion
We must find the enlightened centrist position between “all human beings deserve dignity and freedom” and “kill all [slurs]”
let me guess, she’s running on a platform of more money for ICE so they can hire more female stormtroopers
I asked her campaign about their policy goals and only got this response:
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Skulls for the Skull Throne
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Blood for the Blood Governor
I’ve seen worse.
As long as they dont have to be my own, I’m sold.
Nothing about Pell Grant recipients? smh, I’m Not With Her
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And LGBTQICE
No, that’s over now. It’s too woke and the Dem leadership is now like Bill Maher. They’re afraid of losing young white men so they’re going to make sure those stormtroopers stay pale. More Graham Platners, fewer DEI hires.
Its KLOBBERIN TIME
Step aside White Supremacy Timothy, Amy KKKlobuchar is going to show you how to murder civilians.
Not the stapler!
And then She ate salad with a comb all over the place!
I only opened this thread to upbear this comment.
A chicken in every pot and a stapler in every face
If you can dodge a stapler you can dodge a (pepper) ball!
“We must secure the existence of 'common ground’
and a future for 'all parties’.”𝕴𝖙’𝖘 𝕭𝖎𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖕 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊
Ju-87 Stuka sirens sound like airhorns
called for unity across all parties, billing herself as someone who could heal political divisions and was “willing to find common ground”
FUCK OFF
If Minnesotans actually end up voting for this, we’re all fucked
The alternative will be a con.
Humanity: whenever the fuck - 2026
Not this shit again
I’ll only vote for the Klob if she starts handing out staplers to throw at ICE.
CIA airdropping pallets of staplers to The twin cities in preparation
So I said, let’s see how his hair would fair in a blizzard!
pressure drop cyclonic wind borne of cyclopean depths emanates energy from dimension adjacent to ours the parent universe spawning unholy halfsiblings into being converging spheres the butcher’s bill comes due our crimes cannot be atoned ice storm snow sleet hail freezing rain howling abyss calling to us beckoning near the fate is known the lamb accepts its role willingly in the offering for it too knows that absolution and depravity are one in the same this moment has been this moment will be this moment is quickening upon us let no lips be silent when it is time to sing the discordant wordless wailing canticle for the one who comes and spreads its influence upon this plane the eye of the storm is upon us and calmness is an illusion the wicked will rise
And that’s why as your governor I would demand ICE agents wear body cameras and undergo de-escalation training! Let’s reach across the aisle to work with reasonable Republicans!
don’t blame me, i voted for The Body
The one good libertarian
vermin supreme is alright too
Is he actually a libertarian? I thought he was just one of the last of those hippie political types from the '70s who would really commit to a bit in order to do critique of something
Klonuchar, the office violence lady? Yucky!
Foucault’s Stapler. The violence we allow over there in Amy Klobuchar’s office will return home.
The story that she eats honey with her hands was released to be SEO for when she has sticky fingers in the governor’s mansion
Under Stalin, there was one spoon.
Under Klobuchar, there will be one comb.
Under Klobuchar, there will be one
comb.stapler.
Don’t fuck with this senator! [Throws stapler]
Klob on my knob! 😵💫
