On Politics: The Amy Klobuchar Exit Interview

The hot dish on how she decided to end her bid and what the future holds for female candidates. 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Welcome to [On Politics](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgRBEUP0TaaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vc3BvdGxpZ2h0L29uLXBvbGl0aWNzP3RlPTEmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3Mgd2l0aCBsaXNhIGxlcmVyJmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjAwMzA1JmNhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU2Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE2NTIyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjE5MjAmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyMjAyMDAzMDVXA255dEIKACYUjGFeXqxzH1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA), your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A lot of candidates dropped out of the presidential race over the past week (including [Elizabeth Warren today](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgRBEUP0T7aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMy8wNS91cy9wb2xpdGljcy9lbGl6YWJldGgtd2FycmVuLWRyb3BzLW91dC5odG1sP3RlPTEmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3Mgd2l0aCBsaXNhIGxlcmVyJmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjAwMzA1JmNhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU2Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE2NTIyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjE5MjAmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyMjAyMDAzMDVXA255dEIKACYUjGFeXqxzH1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA)). We were able to grab a few minutes with one of them: Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. She’s still working hard: Our phone call happened very late Wednesday night, after Ms. Klobuchar finished a television hit. Here’s her hot dish about her decision to leave the race, the lack of major female candidates still competing and the total weirdness of running for president. (Our conversation has been edited and condensed.) So, how’s post-presidential life? MS. KLOBUCHAR It’s good. I just told a story about waking up at four or five in the morning, and I go, “What city am I in? What hotel is this that has all this light that’s coming from the street?” It was my own house. Is it nice to be back in your own house? Yeah, it is. And then, I’m going to go back tomorrow for that [coronavirus vote](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgRBEUP0TraHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMy8wNS93b3JsZC9jb3JvbmF2aXJ1cy1uZXdzLmh0bWw_dGU9MSZubD1vbi1wb2xpdGljcyB3aXRoIGxpc2EgbGVyZXImZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY1MjImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTkyMCZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoAJhSMYV5erHMfUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~). I’ll be campaigning for Biden at some point. So that’s good. I have a lot of energy. From the beginning to the end, as you know. And what a way to end in this joyful event in Dallas. I’m sure you saw it. It wasn’t just a normal campaign thing. It was really exciting. The congressmen and then [Beto coming](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgRBEUP4QTAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm55dGltZXMuY29tLzIwMjAvMDMvMDQvdXMvcG9saXRpY3Mvam9lLWJpZGVuLXRleGFzLXByaW1hcnkuaHRtbD9zZWFyY2hSZXN1bHRQb3NpdGlvbj0yJnRlPTEmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3Mgd2l0aCBsaXNhIGxlcmVyJmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjAwMzA1JmNhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU2Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE2NTIyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjE5MjAmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyX2NuXzIwMjAwMzA1VwNueXRCCgAmFIxhXl6scx9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~). It was just a lot of fun. So that made it better. What’s the first non-campaign thing you’ve done? I went to the supermarket. I got milk. I got my own yams that people would normally not know I want. That was good. What’s the weirdest thing about running for president? What’s funny is you’re in this kind of “Game of Thrones” situation, but there were so many cordial moments between the candidates. Cory and I passing notes back and forth during one of the debates. So that was one of my funnier moments, when Andrew Yang had offered $1,000 to people from the campaign, and I wrote Cory a note that said: “Booker. Do not try that. May be election violation.” How did you know it was time to end your campaign? Well, in South Carolina, you always hope — you know you’re not going to win, but you want to give it a try. And then I kept going around to all the states, and we had good crowds. I knew we had this growing support, but it wasn’t going to grow fast enough. And the other thing I knew was that we had that rush of money coming in February, I think $19 million or something. But we didn’t have time to really build the operations we needed as a campaign, so that was part of it. Then, the big overwhelming thing was I knew I was going to win my state. And I thought, “Well, that would be good. Good way to end.” But then I thought, why would I just do that for myself? Maybe I can actually deliver this for Joe Biden knowing that he was at like 10 percent or 15. So I talked to my campaign manager on Sunday morning, and then I was in the church in Selma and I kept thinking that this is the right decision. Then I called my husband, who wasn’t crazy about it. He wanted to keep going. 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So that was hard. Did you know that Pete Buttigieg was also going to endorse Mr. Biden? I didn’t know when we called them [the Biden campaign], no. I figured he wasn’t going to because he had withdrawn the day before. I texted him and he had called me back. And not about Biden, just about him getting out of the race. And I wrote him a nice note and he wrote something back and then we agreed to talk the next day, which we did. So do you feel like you won Minnesota, in the end? I think I was a big help, yes. Joe Biden won Minnesota. But one of the more interesting things is [when you look at the counties on the edges](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgRBEUP4QjAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm55dGltZXMuY29tL2ludGVyYWN0aXZlLzIwMjAvMDMvMDMvdXMvZWxlY3Rpb25zL3Jlc3VsdHMtbWlubmVzb3RhLXByZXNpZGVudC1kZW1vY3JhdC1wcmltYXJ5LWVsZWN0aW9uLmh0bWw_dGU9MSZubD1vbi1wb2xpdGljcyB3aXRoIGxpc2EgbGVyZXImZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY1MjImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTkyMCZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoAJhSMYV5erHMfUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) that don’t always get TV from Minnesota. They get Canadian or North Dakota or South Dakota. Those were the ones that I still won. Maybe they went to vote in the morning without knowing [I had dropped out of the race]. Did you discuss any positions with Mr. Biden or anything like that should he win the White House? I knew every position he had, every single one of them. We did 10 debates. He was on the stage for —— No, no, I mean, positions in a possible future administration. Oh, you can see we didn’t because I didn’t even know what you were talking about. No, we did not. No, not at all. I wouldn’t even have thought of doing that. I was endorsing him to help him. And it didn’t even cross my mind to try to make some deal or anything like that. 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They ended up not choosing the women but that doesn’t mean the women are going to go away. [Tulsi Gabbard is still running.] We all have very powerful jobs. We all have ambitions ourselves and there’s a lot of other women coming up to the pipeline as well. So I just view it as, it was a process, these were the two that came out of it for various reasons. I mean, let’s start with the obvious, Biden and Bernie had run for president before. And they were the most well known. I’m not saying that they weren’t deserving of this, but those were the facts. So, I just don’t see it as an indictment of women candidates. I have often stepped back and wondered, well, is it — were they looking for a man to run against Donald Trump? Maybe in another election. I don’t know. Do you think you’ll see a female president in your lifetime? Of course we will. It’s not even a close call. Do you think it’ll be you? I don’t know. [Laughs.] Drop us a line! We want to hear from our readers. Have a question? We’ll try to answer it. Have a comment? We’re all ears. Email us at onpolitics@nytimes.com. 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Horse race political coverage is a derogatory term. Candidates dismiss it, as a means of showing they’re paying more attention to voters’ needs than the latest polls (usually when they’re down in them). Media critics often disingenuously ignore reporting on policy and governance yet pine for more of it as if it isn’t there. Yet, like actual horse races, political ones change a lot. And covering the candidates who have fallen behind or burst ahead, and then taking time to ask why, is an important way of keeping up with what voters think — and can lead to insights about bigger issues. That’s been the focus of most of the pieces here in Opinion after Super Tuesday. In his newsletter on Wednesday ([sign up here](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgRBEUP0TcaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlcnMvZnJhbmstYnJ1bmk_dGU9MSZubD1vbi1wb2xpdGljcyB3aXRoIGxpc2EgbGVyZXImZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyMDAzMDUmY2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTY1MjImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0yMTkyMCZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTIyMDIwMDMwNVcDbnl0QgoAJhSMYV5erHMfUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~)), Frank Bruni [took stock of Joe Biden’s big victories](~/AAAAAQA~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~~) and reassessed his own priors: “He was too unsteady. Too old. Too yesterday. How could someone so oriented toward the past sufficiently inspire Americans who were looking to the future? Well, Biden inspired or at least appealed to enough voters yesterday to stage one of the most extraordinary political comebacks I’ve ever witnessed.” And with Elizabeth Warren dropping out, Michelle Cottle’s column “[Maybe Next Time, Ladies](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgRBEUP0T7aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMy8wNC9vcGluaW9uL2RlbW9jcmF0cy1zdXBlci10dWVzZGF5LXdhcnJlbi5odG1sP3RlPTEmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3Mgd2l0aCBsaXNhIGxlcmVyJmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjAwMzA1JmNhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU2Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE2NTIyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjE5MjAmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyMjAyMDAzMDVXA255dEIKACYUjGFeXqxzH1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA),” diagnosed the reasons “the most diverse presidential field in history” is down to “two straight white septuagenarian men fighting over the soul of the party — whatever that turns out to be.” “It says something depressing about the challenges women candidates still confront in their quest to shatter the presidential glass ceiling,” Ms. Cottle wrote. — Talmon Joseph Smith WHAT TO READ TONIGHT ~/AAAAAQA~/RgRgRBEUP0T7aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMy8wNS91cy9wb2xpdGljcy9lbGl6YWJldGgtd2FycmVuLWRyb3BzLW91dC5odG1sP3RlPTEmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3Mgd2l0aCBsaXNhIGxlcmVyJmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjAwMzA1JmNhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU2Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTE2NTIyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MjE5MjAmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyMjAyMDAzMDVXA255dEIKACYUjGFeXqxzH1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA [Article Image] Ruth Fremson/The New York Times   [Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Drops Out of Presidential Race Ms. Warren, a senator and former law professor, staked her campaign on fighting corruption and changing the rules of the economy. By Shane Goldmacher and Astead W. 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