While her mother was in Washington, Abigail Bessler found herself a chief campaign surrogate.
PROLE, Iowa — Abigail Bessler was just getting warmed up to make the pitch to a group of Iowa Democrats on behalf of her mother, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. She was to be the star attraction of a potluck supper in this rural community south of Des Moines, and she had arrived bearing Klobuchar’s signature “hotdish,” a recipe topped with tater tots.
All of that came in handy last week, when the Minnesota senator got stuck temporarily in Washington for President Trump’s impeachment trial. The call of this constitutional duty could hardly have come at a worse time for Klobuchar, who is running an uphill campaign for the Democratic nomination and needs to do well in Iowa.Bessler, whose father, John, is a lawyer and law professor, had never campaigned on her own before. Suddenly, she found herself Klobuchar’s chief campaign surrogate.
Klobuchar, who made her living representing big telecom companies, was told to sign forms saying she and John had watched the required videos on infant care, even though there’d been no time to see them.She rolled out of the maternity ward still wearing her hospital gown, heading to a $50-a-night hotel, where she would get precious little sleep. The hospital needed her to return every three hours to pump breast milk for struggling Abigail, who was being fed through a tube in her stomach.
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