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U.S. senator from Minnesota since 2007 and former Hennepin County attorney, the Democratic nominee for governor of Minnesota in the November 2026 election.
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U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar stepped in as the Democratic gubernatorial nominee and leads Republican candidate Lisa Demuth in the latest polling.
The race for Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seat remains statistically tied, according to the latest survey.
St. Paul City Council President Rebecca Noecker speaks with a St. Paul, Minn., resident as part of her campaign for Ramsey County Commissioner Friday, Oct. 9, 2026.
DemuthCampaign Goals: Affordability, healthcare, housing and government accountability
In the KSTP/SurveyUSA poll highlighted by MinnMix, Minnesota gubernatorial race results show Amy Klobuchar’s favored Democrat lead over Republican challenger Lisa Demuth, though the margin is slim.
Amy Klobuchar and Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth say that whichever party’s candidate becomes Minnesota’s first female governor will govern from the center.
The article compares Amy Klobuchar’s and Lisa Demuth’s education plans for Minnesota, noting both have not responded to interview requests about their schooling proposals.
The article discusses Minnesota appearing poised to elect its first female governor, with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar as the Democratic front-runner.
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Klobuchar was born on May 25, 1960, in Plymouth, Minnesota, to Rose Klobuchar, a second-grade teacher, and Jim Klobuchar, a Star Tribune sportswriter and columnist. She attended Plymouth public schools and graduated as valedictorian of Wayzata High School.
At Yale University she interned for Walter Mondale and graduated magna cum laude in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science; her senior thesis on the politics behind the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was published in 1986 as Uncovering the Dome.
She earned a J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985. She then became a partner at the Minneapolis firms Dorsey & Whitney and Gray Plant Mooty.
Klobuchar won the nonpartisan election for Hennepin County attorney in 1998 by under 1% over Sheryl Ramstad Hvass and was reelected unopposed in 2002, serving from 1999 to 2007 as chief prosecutor for the state's most populous county.
In the 2006 U.S. Senate race to succeed Mark Dayton, she took 58% of the vote against Republican Mark Kennedy, becoming the first woman elected to the Senate from Minnesota.
Voters returned her in 2012, when she defeated Kurt Bills 65.23% to 30.53%, in 2018 over Jim Newberger, and in 2024 over Republican Royce White.
She became the state's senior senator in 2009 and chair of the Senate Rules Committee in 2021, and her legislative priorities have included health care, consumer protection, agriculture, abortion rights, and climate policy.
She sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination from February 10, 2019, until March 2, 2020, when she ended her campaign and backed Joe Biden.
Klobuchar entered the race for governor of Minnesota on January 29, 2026, after incumbent Democrat Tim Walz withdrew from his bid for a third term.
She won the party's caucus straw poll on February 3 with about 72%, received the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party endorsement on the first ballot on May 30 with running mate Ben Schierer, and won the primary with 89.7% of the vote.
Her Republican opponent in the general election of November 3 is Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth.
