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Amy Klobuchar

Governor-elect of Minnesota; U.S. Senator, State of Minnesota

Search every verified Amy Klobuchar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Amy Klobuchar, who has served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota since 2007, won the 2026 Minnesota gubernatorial election on November 3, defeating Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth by nearly 13 points. The victory made her the first woman elected governor of the state and marked the largest margin of victory in a Minnesota governor's race in over 30 years. In her victory speech and subsequent press conferences, Klobuchar said she would focus on "moving our state forward" rather than to the left or right, and pledged to launch a top-to-bottom audit of state government to root out waste, fraud, and abuse. She stated she would not raise taxes, expressed support for an Equal Rights Amendment, and outlined plans to address housing shortages, child care costs, and health care affordability, including expanding bulk purchasing of prescription drugs. Klobuchar said she would work with the private sector to build 100,000 more homes and streamline permitting processes. During the campaign, Klobuchar emphasized her record as a former prosecutor and her experience taking on pharmaceutical companies, citing her role in Medicare drug price negotiation legislation that she said saved $6 billion for taxpayers and $1.5 billion for seniors. She criticized her opponent for opposing certain drug discounts and for ads she said were funded by an outside billionaire. Klobuchar also said she would not move the state left or right, but would pursue a "growth agenda" and cut red tape for businesses. Regarding her Senate seat, Klobuchar said she would make a careful decision on an interim appointment, noting that the person would face election in November 2027. In a September Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Klobuchar challenged Senator Eric Schmitt's allegation that former Special Counsel Jack Smith attended an Atlanta Hawks game, pointing out that Smith was actually at an Iowa Hawkeyes game in Maryland and calling for an apology. She also criticized the Trump administration's handling of antitrust enforcement, saying the ouster of Gail Slater from the Justice Department's antitrust division raised concerns about political influence over legal decisions.

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“More supply is really important here. Minnesota is 100,000 units short of housing from single family to apartments. Rochester alone is 14,000 short. When you have more housing and I am committed with my running mate, Ben Shier, who knows a lot about rural housing, to build with the private sector. These homes, by the end of our term that the first term. Supply brings down costs. And it's pretty important. And there's”

“When you look at what happened across the country, whether it's people speaking out in South Carolina to Texas, to Iowa, to Kansas, this wasn't just about Minnesota, but it was about affordability and Trump's tariffs as well as these health care cuts have hurt people in their everyday lives. They can feel it. They get those premiums in the mail. One of the things that happened was that 8 million people have been toss”

“I think we have to be more nimble when businesses are looking at where they want to locate or expand and that doesn't necessarily. We have a lot of things going for us, right? On our quality of life and on many things and but I would be interested in looking at R&D, making more tax credits on that front, doing other things that I think are helpful for business.”

“So from day one, as my constituents here know, I ran on a growth agenda. Um we have lagged as you've noted like a lot of states uh in the upper Midwest um have been lagging in the last decade. Uh but this year actually we did have but we've booked six in the country for growth. I hope it stays. It's the first two quarters we've gone up 3%. Um but this is how I look at this. Number one, we have to cut through the red ”

“I mean, clearly it is one moment of celebration that everyone deserves after what has been going on here. And you think about the voters. These weren't just city voters or they weren't just suburban voters. They were also rural voters. The fact that we flip states like North Carolina and South Carolina in the Senate as well as the state of Maine and then you go down to Texas with Telerico and you go to Ohio and you g”

“I'm not going to raise taxes, and that is not going to change. I think that Minnesota's year has been going better than some people thought for growth. We are, you know, we've been lagging for growth. We all know this. We've been at 1.6% per year compared to 2.4% for the rest of the country. But this year, and we'll see if it remains, I don't have those numbers, but in the first two quarters, we were at 3% growth, wh”

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