Amy Klobuchar’s Subtle Pitch to Voters: Let Her Gender Speak for Itself
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia—Some of the loudest cheers during Amy Klobuchar’s latest pitch to Virginia voters were not for her lines lambasting President Donald Trump. Or for her pitch about getting things done in the Senate. Or for her rehearsed jokes.
Sure, those all got ample applause. But something else caught voters’ attention here at the State Theatre on Friday afternoon. That is, the packed audience collectively erupted in cheers when the senator remarked that she is, in fact, “the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Minnesota.”
In one respect, the line is just another part of Klobuchar’s usual stump speech, something voters who have heard her shtick multiple times know to be true. And while voters routinely clap at the mention of that distinction, her gender is seldom referenced as the top reason to vote for her. In fact, her ability to drop a reference about being a woman casually and move on to other perceived selling points is one of her biggest draws, voters here said.
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