Klobuchar’s experience with grit began when she was young.
Her father, while a successful sports writer, was also an alcoholic (viaBiography).
Despite the turmoil of her home life, Klobuchar was a stellar student.
She graduated valedictorian from her public high school and attended Yale University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Around this time, Klobuchar acquired a taste for politics.
She was re-elected for a second term in 2012 and began serving her third in 2018.
Since 2009, Congressional gridlock has caused fewer and fewer bills to be enacted (viaPew Research).
Unfortunately, Klobuchar’s greatest ability as a governing official was her greatest liability as a candidate.
Moving to the Senate, she handily secured her first seat in 2006.
But when she ran for president in 2018, things changed.
Klobucharunderwent surgery to remove the lump in her right breast and finished her radiation treatments in May.
Klobuchar’s health crisis could have come at a less advantageous time.
That same spring, her husband John Bessler was hospitalized with COVID-19.
Thankfully, he recovered, as did Klobuchar.
By August, her providers concluded the cancer treatment had worked.
Whatever the case, this won’t be the last we’ll hear from this resilient woman.
