Midwest Dems hinge 2020 runs on winning back Rust Belt
By Lisa Hagen - 02/12/19 09:10 PM EST
A number of Midwestern Democratic presidential hopefuls are hinging their candidacies on winning back the working-class voters in the Rust Belt region, who were widely seen as delivering the White House to President Trump in 2016.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), the most recent Democrat to announce a 2020 run, is the latest example of how the party is looking to rebound among voters who flipped from former President Obama to Trump after the party some early success in the 2018 midterms.
She said Wisconsin will be her first campaign stop, a pointed reference to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lack of campaigning in a state Trump narrowly won.
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