While she’s hardly a centrist, she has distinguished herself by breaking from the new liberal orthodoxy that has dominated the primary so far.
The first policy proposal released by her campaign was a $1 trillion infrastructure plan, an idea that is popular among Republicans and was championed by Mr. Trump during his presidential run.
She doesn’t favor a “Medicare for all” health care system, preferring a more graduated approach, and she has called the Green New Deal “aspirational.”
When asked by a student at a CNN town hall if she supported free tuition for students at public colleges and universities, she said she did not. “If I was a magic genie and could give that to everyone and we could afford it, I would,” she said.
Her approach has turned off some progressive activists.
“When we talk to our members, frankly, they aren’t super excited about Senator Klobuchar,” said Yvette Simpson, chief executive of Democracy For America, a political action committee that backed Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary. “Voters are looking for champions, fighters, people who are going to go all the way. She has taken an approach that is unfortunately more incremental.”
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Ms. Klobuchar, 58, grew up in the Minneapolis suburbs. Her mother was a schoolteacher. Her father, a prominent newspaper columnist, struggled with alcoholism during her childhood, and Ms. Klobuchar was rocketed into the national spotlight after she raised those struggles during a hearing about the sexual assault allegations against Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
She’s referenced her father’s story on the campaign trail while discussing opioid addiction and mental health, saying his story showed her that “everyone should be able to be pursued by grace” and find redemption.
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