MSNBC prime-time anchor Chris Hayes argued that Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has the best chance to beat President Trump in 2020.
Hayes, 40, praised Klobuchar for her electability in the Midwest, pointing out that she could obtain support from those who find Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders too liberal and who believe former Vice President Joe Biden isn’t “at his sharpest.”
“In terms of an electability argument, just looking at the numbers, probably has the best argument in the field just in terms of how she performs in Minnesota, the Republican districts in which she overperforms in,” he said, during Monday’s episode of Pod Save America. “She overperforms in rural parts of that state. I don’t think anyone is like right now getting super fired up about Amy Klobuchar the way that there are some people about Pete Buttigieg.”
In the 2018 election cycle, Klobuchar won 43 Minnesota counties Trump had won in the presidential election two years prior.
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He went on to point out that the biggest election South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has won only had 10,000 votes cast.
Hayes continued, “Amy Klobuchar has won in a state that remember, Hillary Clinton only won by 10,000 votes last time around. That’s a competitive state. I just feel like on the numbers and the metrics, if you’re making the tactical argument about this sort of centrism combined with electability, she’s got a stronger case just in the data than he does.”
Klobuchar beat Trump 55-38% in a hypothetical presidential race, according to a new Star Tribune poll that surveyed 800 Minnesota voters. Biden, Warren, and Sanders also beat Trump in the poll, but Klobuchar’s 17-point margin was the largest of all the candidates.
