While the Iowa caucus, the first leg of the Democratic nomination contest for the November 3 presidential election, was held on Monday February 3, "Le Monde" is launching its campaign logbook. A daily update, first of all five days a week until September, with campaign facts, political advertisements, polls, maps and figures that allow us to follow and experience the most important electoral competition in the world.
The snow hardly impresses Amy Klobuchar. Just a year ago, on February 10, 2019, she announced her candidacy bareheaded under the big flakes that fell on Minneapolis, in a polar cold. Donald Trump had mocked a "snow woman" on his Twitter account. The 59-year-old Minnesota senator retorted on the same channel that she would have loved to see the effect of the flurry on the primed hair of which the President of the United States is so proud.
The snow that drowns New Hampshire therefore bodes well for the chosen one, encouraged by another solid performance during the last Democratic debate, on February 7. Revenge for the one who has long been overshadowed by two other senators: Elizabeth Warren, to her left, and Kamala Harris (California), who gave up in December.
Her voting intentions are on the rise and she dreams of extricating herself from the soft stomach of the presidential nomination race in order to become an alternative to Vice President Joe Biden for the moderate current of the Democratic Party that the youngest of the race, Pete Buttigieg. Despite the support of New york times, shared with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar was only fifth in Iowa caucuses on February 3, according to results that are not yet final. A disappointing result for a state neighboring its own, where it was able to demonstrate its ability to take it to rural constituencies.
His weak voting intentions have so far protected him. During his declaration of candidacy, the American press had highlighted a difficult character attested by the turnover of his assistants in the Senate. Likewise, his past as a Minnesota county attorney has not yet attracted the attention of the media or his opponents.
During her meetings, the elected official encamps on a line very close to that of Pete Buttigieg when she invites her audience to put themselves " in the shoes of those who did not vote in 2016, or who voted for Trump To find the words that might convince them to support a rallying Democratic candidacy. " What unites us is greater than what divides us ", She assures.
