Sen. Amy Klobuchar revealed over the weekend that the Minnesota state representative who was slain alongside her husband in what appeared to be “a politically motivated assassination” was a personal friend she had known for more than a decade.
Klobuchar, who on Sunday morning sat for a marathon round of emotional interviews with CNN, ABC, and NBC, said that she was attending a dinner Friday in her home state alongside state Rep. Melissa Hortman and spoke with her just hours before the shocking attack. She also said Gov. Tim Walz woke her up at 5 a.m. Saturday to share the heartbreaking news that Hortman had passed away following the incident.
The Minnesota Democrat said she and Hortman, who rose through the ranks of the state legislature to become Speaker of the House, started in politics around the same time and bonded over their shared experiences as mothers working in politics.