Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) beat her opponent in Tuesday’s primary, advancing to the general election for the Minnesota Senate in November.
The North Star State senator was the first woman elected to the Senate from Minnesota in 2006 and is seeking her fourth term.
She chairs the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Democratic Steering Committee and serves in a leadership role for the Junior Caucus.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar is seeking a fourth term in the Senate. (Drew Ungerer/Getty Images)
Klobuchar faced four other opponents in the race, none of whom posed a serious threat to her reelection.
One of her challengers for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nomination was Steve Carlson, who unsuccessfully challenged her in 2018 and then challenged Minnesota Democratic Senator Tina Smith as an independent in 2020.
And only one of Klobuchar’s primary opponents, Ahmad Hassan, has campaign finance data available on the Federal Election Commission’s website.
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She ran unsuccessfully for president in the 2020 Democratic primary. (Paras Griffin/MSNBC/NBCU Photobank via Getty Images)
But Klobuchar is heading into the general election with a lot of cash on hand, about $6.5 million.
Her national profile soared in the 2020 election, when she ran unsuccessfully for president after serving in the Senate for more than a decade.
Shortly after launching her campaign in early 2019, Klobuchar was dogged by reports that she had been abusive and insulting to her Senate staff.
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Klobuchar dropped out of the White House race in early 2020 and endorsed Biden. (Jacqueline Martin/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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She withdrew after a poor showing in the South Carolina primary and endorsed President Biden.
But Klobuchar has a much better chance of retaining her seat in November, a state that has leaned Democratic in recent years.
The senator won his seat in 2012 with 65% of the vote and was re-elected in 2018 with 60% of the vote.
