Klobuchar campaign swings through Keokuk County

The presidential campaign continued on at warp speed last week, as another presidential candidate swung through Keokuk County on a mission to shake up the current race. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), spoke to a packed room at Barn Wired in Sigourney as she seeks to gain traction as the 2020 Iowa Caucuses quickly approach. Klobuchar explained her belief that she was doing something others didn’t want to do: taking her message to the areas Donald Trump won handily in 2016.

“I am a strong believer in not going where it’s comfortable but uncomfortable. In going not just to the bluest of blue counties and bluest of blue states and actually going to those places and those counties that Donald Trump won, like this one, and making a point that he has not kept his promise to the people,” Klobuchar said.

The Minnesota senator expressed her belief that President Trump has failed rural Iowans.

“Whether it is failing to invest in economic development, whether it is failing to help with our rural hospitals and our rural education system, or whether it is the free waivers he gave to the big oil companies, and it’s very hard now to go back,” Klobuchar said. “That is one of the hallmarks of his presidency,” she added.

Klobuchar said that one thing that sets her apart from some of her primary opponents is that she will not promise large, expansive programs if she can’t back them up.

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