MINNEAPOLIS – Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar successfully fended off her primary challengers Tuesday and is advancing to Minnesota’s general Senate election in November.
The senior senator is seeking a fourth term, having first been elected to Congress in 2006 as the first woman from Minnesota to hold the job.
She chairs the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Democratic Steering Committee, a lower-level caucus leadership role.
Klobuchar faced four other declared challengers in the race, but none posed a serious threat to her re-election.
One of her challengers for the Democratic nomination was Steve Carlson, who unsuccessfully challenged her in 2018 and ran against Sen. Tina Smith, as an independent in 2020.
Controversial Republican U-S Senate candidate Royce White will be on the ballot this November against Senator Klobuchar, after defeating challenger Joe Fraser by over 9 points in Tuesday’s primary election
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