Super PAC backing Amy Klobuchar hits airwaves in Colorado (VIDEO)
An independent political action committee supporting Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar is airing TV and digital ads in Colorado pitching the Minnesota senator’s record winning elections “where no one ever thinks she could.”
Kitchen Table Conversations, a super PAC formed earlier this month by Klobuchar supporters identified by ABC News as veteran Minnesota political fundraisers, is spending six figures to boost Klobuchar in Colorado ahead of the March 3 Super Tuesday primary, according to filings with federal authorities.
The super PAC spent heavily last week in the run-up to the Nevada caucuses, where Klobuchar’s sixth-place finish appeared to blunt the momentum she’d gained from an unexpectedly high finish in the New Hampshire primary a week earlier.
According to a poll released Thursday, Klobuchar could use a boost in Colorado, where she held a town hall and added staff last week. The survey of likely primary voters showed Klobuchar in sixth place, with 6% support.
A spokesman for the Klobuchar campaign told Colorado Politics that Klobuchar doesn’t want help from super PACs, a position she has maintained since launching her campaign, and one her campaign reiterated last fall when former Vice President Joe Biden opened the door to the Democratic candidates accepting independent, big-money support.
The Klobuchar campaign is spending five figures to run digital ads in Colorado this week, a campaign spokesman said, including one that features excerpts from a Klobuchar speech saying she will “fight for you.”
The super PAC, which doesn’t have to disclose its donors but can’t coordinate with Klobuchar’s campaign, announced a “high six-figure” buy in South Carolina, which votes Saturday, and Arkansas, Maine and Oklahoma, other states that vote on Super Tuesday.
The group’s Colorado ad campaign features a 30-second spot called “Greetings from Hallock,” a spokeswoman for the PAC told Colorado Politics.
“You don’t see a lot of Democrats win around here,” says a man in the ad, which was filmed in the small Minnesota town near the Canadian border.
“Except Amy Klobuchar,” adds another man. The ad notes that Klobuchar won Minnesota’s Kittson County by 16 points in 2018, two years after Donald Trump carried the county by 22 points.
“We believe Amy Klobuchar is the only candidate that can unite independents, Democrats and even moderate Republicans,” a spokesperson for the PAC told ABC News.
With a population of 981, Hallock – motto: “Things Are Clearer Up Here” – is the Kittson County seat and a center for outdoor activities, as well as the town’s annual Rib Fest in late summer. It’s the site of Minnesota’s first indoor ice rink, built in 1894, and scenes in the 1996 movie “Fargo” were filmed there.


