Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar launched her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on a cold and snowy Sunday in Minneapolis, injecting a veteran Midwestern lawmaker into the race for the White House. Ms. Klobuchar, 58 years old, won her first Senate election in 2006 and breezed to re-election last year, stitching together a winning coalition of voters in urban, suburban and rural parts of Minnesota. Preparing for a campaign, the senator has argued that Democrats can’t overlook the Midwest in next year’s election...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 10, 2019 20:26 UTC