The 2016 presidential buzz may be all about Hillary Clinton, but she won’t be the first Democrat to step foot in the Hawkeye State this election cycle.
That honor belongs to Sen. Amy Klobuchar of neighboring Minnesota, who is set to headline the North Iowa Wing Ding fundraiser in Clear Lake on Friday evening.
Clinton won’t be far from the minds of dinner-goers, though. She’s set to receive the group’s Beacon Award for her accomplishments within the Democratic Party.
Klobuchar is one of a handful of Democrats mentioned as other possible presidential candidates if the former first lady doesn’t make another bid for the White House in 2016.
Minnesota’s senior senator is downplaying her interest in a national campaign, though. She told Minnesota Public Radio that her talk at the event just across the state line was simply a coincidence.
“It simply means I was invited to a wingding, and I think anything in Iowa makes a wingding out of a wingding, and that is all it is,” Klobuchar told MPR.








