Amy Klobuchar wins Min­neso­ta pri­ma­ry to fight for fourth Sen­ate term

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D‑Minn., suc­cess­ful­ly fend­ed off her pri­ma­ry chal­lengers Tues­day and is advanc­ing to Minnesota’s gen­er­al Sen­ate elec­tion in November.The North Star State’s senior sen­a­tor is seek­ing a fourth term, hav­ing first been elect­ed to Con­gress in 2006 as the first woman from Min­neso­ta to hold the job.She chairs the Sen­ate Rules Com­mit­tee and the Sen­ate Demo­c­ra­t­ic Steer­ing Com­mit­tee, a low­er-lev­el cau­cus lead­er­ship role.MINNESOTA GOP DEMANDS PROBE AFTER NONCITIZEN CLAIMS RECEIVING PRIMARY BALLOT WITHOUT REGISTERING TO VOTEK­lobuchar faced four oth­er declared chal­lengers in the race, but none posed a seri­ous threat to her re-election.One of her chal­lengers for the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Par­ty nom­i­na­tion, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty affil­i­ate in Min­neso­ta, is Steve Carl­son, who unsuc­cess­ful­ly chal­lenged her in 2018 and ran against Sen. Tina Smith, D‑Minn., as an inde­pen­dent in 2020.And just one of Klobuchar …