Sen. Amy Klobuchar sat down with CNBC's John Harwood to discuss the battle for the White House.
In some ways, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota boasts an ideal profile to compete for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Klobuchar sat down to discuss the battle for the White House over calamari and risotto balls at Casa di Amore, an Italian restaurant in Las Vegas where she had earlier addressed a union gathering. What follows is a condensed, edited transcript of the conversation.A lot of people in the country first got to know you during those Kavanaugh hearings, when you had that confrontation and you kept your cool.
As opposed to answering a senator's questions, which was his job. I decided at that split-second moment, "I'm going to do my job," and my job is not to go down in the sewer with him. As I'd thought, many times when I had to deal with my dad when he was drinking, which I brought up at that hearing, I thought, "I'm going to take the keys away here." Because I have an obligation to uphold my own integrity, the integrity for Dr.
That is because I am, first of all, from the heartland. I know how to win in purple districts and red congressional districts like I don't think we've seen in a lot of the other candidates. I have won every single congressional district in the rural areas and in every area in my state, including Michele Bachmann's three times in a row. I won 40 of the counties that Donald Trump won.OK. I did it by not selling out on democratic values.
JohnJHarwood Snore.
JohnJHarwood Why is she running, she's an unknown?
JohnJHarwood Citizens United flights for all Americans rights.
JohnJHarwood A journalist would as what that even means.
JohnJHarwood This is gold. Harwood is the best at this.
JohnJHarwood If you were one... or are fans of objective working journalists - especially if portrayed as such until being caught - seeing and hearing John Harwood turns your stomach.
JohnJHarwood Democrats are bad for the American economy. Its very apparent. 2020 will blow Americans apart if a Democrat sneaks in there.
JohnJHarwood More people are participating in record levels. MAGA
JohnJHarwood She has absolutely ZERO chance. President Trump will squish these people like bugs.
JohnJHarwood I don't trust the lady who got pissed off about a lack of salad fork!
JohnJHarwood So she wants to get everything Obama had. Don’t hear anything that is dynamic. So she stood in the snow and made a speech, Wupee!!!
JohnJHarwood What a softball interview & Idiotic Hateful Liberal JohnJHarwood didn’t ask johnpodesta for any help.
JohnJHarwood I think everybody does participate in our economy one way or another. Some are better at it.
JohnJHarwood She has no chance.
JohnJHarwood no regulation in our industry needed, we got this handled.