Amy Klobuchar Just Discovered Fraud Exists. How Convenient.

So let me get this straight. Amy Klobuchar has been sitting in the United States Senate since 2007. That is nineteen years, folks. Nineteen years of drawing a government paycheck, and now, suddenly, in the year of our Lord 2026, she has discovered that fraud is a problem in Minnesota’s welfare programs. She put “rooting out fraud” right on her campaign website. Conducting a “top-to-bottom audit.” Modernizing computer systems. Well, butter my biscuit. Where has this woman been for two decades?

I’ll tell you where. She’s been in Washington, that’s where. Her eyes, as her Republican opponent Lisa Demuth correctly noted, “have been on either being president or working in Washington.” Not once did Klobuchar say a peep about fraud until Tim Walz’s welfare scandal blew up so big he had to slink off and announce he wouldn’t run for a third term. Now she wants to be governor and she’s the anti-fraud crusader. I have four kids. When one of them suddenly starts volunteering to clean the kitchen, I know they broke something in there. Same energy.

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Klobuchar cruised to victory Tuesday with 89.1% of the vote against six other Democrats, including a fellow named Bill Gates Jr. who is, and I cannot stress this enough, not the Bill Gates. She beat her closest competitor, Kobey Layne, by 84 percentage points. Eighty-four. I have seen more competitive races for PTA treasurer.

Here is what really got me going, though. While Klobuchar was gliding to her coronation, the rest of the country’s primaries were a dumpster fire of the Democratic Party’s own making. In Wisconsin, a woman named Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialist, was the leading candidate for governor. This is a person who wanted to cancel Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. The one holiday where you sit down with your family, eat too much turkey, and count your blessings. She called it a “colonizer holiday.” She also voted against an anti-child grooming law. I will let that sink in. A teacher was pursuing a 14-year-old child and Francesca Hong voted against the law meant to stop that. And the Democratic Party was about to hand her a gubernatorial nomination. She was trailing moderate David Crowley as of late Tuesday night, thank God, but the fact that she was even in striking distance tells you everything you need to know about who is steering that ship.

Meanwhile in Minnesota’s Senate primary, Tim Walz’s own lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, beat centrist Rep. Angie Craig. Flanagan campaigned on “Medicare for all,” ending U.S. aid to Israel, and vowed to “rip ICE apart.” Ripping ICE apart. I have a neighbor whose daughter was killed by someone who should not have been in this country. Tell me again how dismantling immigration enforcement is the compassionate position. Flanagan had 58.8% of the vote. The left flank is eating the center and burping.

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Over in Connecticut, 78-year-old Rep. John Larson got bounced by a 46-year-old challenger named Luke Bronin. Larson froze up on the House floor last year mid-speech. His office called it a “complex partial seizure.” I am not going to mock a man’s health. But I will say this: when a 78-year-old congressman who has been in office since 1999 is stalling at the podium and his party still has to be dragged kicking and screaming to let someone younger step up, that is not a party that respects its voters. That is a party that treats seats like family heirlooms.

And on the Republican side in Minnesota? Lisa Demuth, the State House Speaker, trounced Mike Lindell by double digits. Trump endorsed Lindell. The Minnesota GOP backed Kendall Qualls. Demuth got neither endorsement and won anyway. She ran on actual legislative experience, fraud prevention, and protecting taxpayer dollars. You know, the things Klobuchar just discovered last January.

Demuth called Klobuchar “Tim Walz 2.0.” Qualls called her the same thing. They are both right. Walz presided over a welfare fraud scandal so egregious he couldn’t even run for re-election, and now his party wants to install his Senate colleague in the governor’s mansion to continue the same policies with a fresh coat of paint. Klobuchar says she would “do things differently.” She says she would have done “surprise audits.” She has been in the Senate for nineteen years. She could have been sounding the alarm on Minnesota’s fraud problem any time she wanted. She didn’t. She waited until the man who let it happen on his watch became politically toxic, and then she swooped in to ride the cleanup.

Office of Governor Walz & Lt. Governor Flanagan (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons

That is not leadership. That is opportunism with a campaign sign.

Minnesota parents, you have a choice in November. You can vote for a woman who just found out fraud exists, or you can vote for the woman who has been in the legislature actually trying to stop it. I know which one I’d trust with my tax dollars. And I know which one I’d trust around the kitchen.