Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar refused to say which Democratic candidates she was referring to when she claimed that some of her rivals were making promises just to get elected.
“I want to bring in Sen. Klobuchar at the beginning of the night. You said you’re going to hear a lot of promises on the stage, and previously you have said when asked about your primary opponents, ‘A lot of people are making promises and I’m not going to make promises just to get elected.’ Who on this stage is making promises just to get elected?” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked her.
“Everyone wants to get elected but my point is this, I think when we have a guy in the White House who has now told over 10,000 lies that we better be very straightforward with the American people, and no, do I think that we are going to end up voting for a plan that kicks half of America off of their current insurance in four years? No, I don’t think we’re going to do that,” Klobuchar answered.
“I think there is a better way to get what we all want to see, which is lower costs for healthcare,” she continued. “Do I think that we’re going to vote to give free college to the wealthiest kids, no, I don’t think we’re going to do that. So that’s what I’m talking about. But what I don’t like about this argument right now, what I don’t like about it at all is that we are more worried about winning an argument than winning an election, and I think how we win an election is to bring everyone with us.”
Earlier this month, the senator made the statement that Tapper asked her about during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press.
