Amy Klobuchar, The moderate Minnesotan with a record of Trump country wins, seems perfectly positioned to do well in Iowa. So why is she stuck in fifth? Our senior staff writer Michael Kruse traveled to Iowa to find out.
What he heard from the voters he talked to was mounting angst and indecision. That Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are too far to the left. That Joe Biden is too old. That Pete Buttigieg is too young. That Tom Steyer has too much money. He heard them yearn for a candidate who was just right, squarely in the middle, in the middle of the age range, and of the political spectrum, and of the country itself. And he heard these voters, men and women, self-described moderates interested enough to at least come to watch Klobuchar, praise her for her bipartisan bent and legislative success and the way she’s run this race, and then often stop short of pledging their full support. Almost every conversation he had eventually touched on her gender. And it wasn’t just “old whit...
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