Ahead of Iowa caucuses, Klobuchar makes last-minute pitch at Sioux City bar

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By Mason Dockter


SIOUX CITY -- With the Iowa caucuses looming Monday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar came to the Marquee bar in downtown Sioux City Saturday afternoon to pitch her moderate brand of Democratic politics.

Like her fellow senators seeking the Democratic nomination -- Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Michael Bennet -- Klobuchar's campaign activities in Iowa largely stalled this week, with the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump occupying her time.

GOP senators have effectively blocked any further witnesses in Trump's impeachment, leaving acquittal the only likely outcome of the trial. Speaking on the impeachment matter, Klobuchar repeated a line she used at a recent Democratic debate in Des Moines.

"I said, 'If my Republican colleagues are afraid to even found out, about what the witnesses say, just four witnesses, they may as well give' -- this is what I said -- 'They may as well give the president a crown and a scepter,'" Klobuchar said. "Because they are basically making him the king. And they are not, they are not, following the laws of this country."

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(Sioux City Journal)