MINNEAPOLIS— For Democrats, the post-mortem continues on why Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Governor Tim Walz, performed worse with almost every demographic group than President Biden in 2020.
In Minnesota, Senator Amy Klobuchar did much better than Harris with some of those same groups.
Harris won Minnesota 51% to nearly 47%, while Klobuchar fared much better statewide, beating her opponent 56% to 40%.
Klobuchar had twelve conservative counties that Donald Trump won. They are Anoka, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Carlton, Carver, Mahnomen, Mower, Nicollet, Norman, Rice and Scott Counties.
“I think a lot of this goes to all 87 counties every year, year after year. It makes a difference to me. I think it matters,” Klobuchar said. “Ultimately you won’t get all the votes there. I know that. But they still come to me and sometimes say, “I didn’t vote for you, but I agree with what you did on veterans benefits. ”
In this election, Klobuchar fared far better than all other Senate Democrats; she won by a significantly larger margin.
Republicans in the elections flipped the Senate and will manage it in the new session. Klobuchar says she doesn’t expect to be sidelined by Republican control and that right now, as current chair of the Senate Rules Committee, she has some big jobs ahead of her. One of these will oversee the certification of the counting of electoral votes, which will happen again on January 6.
Klobuchar will be one of the chairmen of the Congressional Inauguration Committee that will oversee the swearing-in of President-elect Donald Trump on January 20.
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