Minnesota Sen. Klobuchar May Join Congress-to-Governor Cavalcade

Sen. Amy Klobuchar will soon disclose whether she will run for Minnesota governor in the 2026 election — and join a procession of Washington lawmakers more interested in serving as their states’ chief executives.

The Democratic senator is weighing a bid to succeed two-term Gov. Tim Walz, the party’s 2024 vice-presidential nominee, who abruptly abandoned his reelection campaign Monday amid heightened scrutiny of fraud in Minnesota’s social safety-net programs.

“Governor Walz made the difficult decision to focus on his job and the challenges facing our state rather than campaigning and running for reelection,” Klobuchar said in a social-media post that ...