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Klobuchar’s fraud record vs. 1,000 Senate press releases
Lisa Demuth and conservative outlets say Amy Klobuchar’s Senate office never mentioned Minnesota’s social-services fraud. Klobuchar says she got federal prosecutors more resources.
Amy Klobuchar is running for Minnesota governor against House Speaker Lisa Demuth with the state’s social-services fraud as a central issue. Conservative outlets and Demuth say Klobuchar’s Senate office issued more than 1,000 press releases from 2022 through 2025 without mentioning Feeding Our Future. Klobuchar says that when she heard of the scheme she pushed the Justice Department for more prosecutors, and she is now advertising a Day 1 audit. Sources disagree on whether that counts as action before her campaign.
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Klobuchar's fraud fight claim takes hit after GOP opponent combs through receipts: 'Where were you?'
22 Aug 2026
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Klobuchar's Senate office repeatedly issued press releases addressing other forms of fraud between 2022 and 2025
prosecutors say could total over $9 billion
broke in late January of 2022
Minnesota Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth told Fox News Digital in an interview on Friday
twenty years as a senator
the hearing that took place a few months ago about fraud here in the state of Minnesota she didn't even attend
"She has called Governor Walz an exceptional governor, 'he's a great governor.'"
Fox News Digital reached out to Klobuchar's campaign for comment.
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facing heat from her Republican opponent and critics on social media
"the absent voice that I was noticing was Senator Klobuchar"
could have held hearings but not only did she not hold hearings
voters will have a hard time ignoring Klobuchar's record on combatting fraud as well as her ties to Walz
Somebody that has just decided to talk about fraud now that they're running for office or someone that has been fighting fraud this entire time?
GOP gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth releases fraud prevention plan
18 Aug 2026
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banning transfers of public dollars to foreign countries, recouping more public dollars lost to fraud and firing all current agency heads and deputy commissioners
even though the majority of the theft came from state-administered programs
“Amy Klobuchar continually praised Tim Walz as a great governor and an incredible leader”
former U.S. Attorney Andy Luger, who first prosecuted the Feeding Our Future scheme, is supporting Klobuchar’s campaign
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Firing commissioners wouldn’t be groundbreaking
“Now she is Gov. Walz’s handpicked candidate to replace him. That is not what Minnesota needs.”
“This is not taking fraud seriously. Three years, 1,000 press releases, no mention of the taxpayer fraud that was happening here,”
Demuth’s plan is “empty political rhetoric.”
Amy Klobuchar fought for and delivered more prosecutors to go after the fraud
which was light on details
One thousand Klobuchar press releases, none on fraud
6 Aug 2026
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On January 20, 2022, the FBI raided numerous locations connected to Feeding Our Future.
Federal money was being used to fund the Feeding Our Future program
President Joe Biden announced Luger’s nomination on November 12, 2021, well before the January 20, 2022, FBI raids.
on September 20, 2022, when the DOJ indicted Aimee Bock and 46 others, making it the largest fraud indictment in Minnesota history at the time
Klobuchar releases a statement declaring AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
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“The people of Minnesota were ripped off. This was wrong and it should have been caught earlier.”
her official voice was silent while it was happening
either didn’t care enough to put out a statement, or was completely ignorant
This means her recommendation had nothing to do with the fraud
during the biggest fraud scandal in state history, and none of them mentioned fraud
Klobuchar launches first ad promising to ‘root out the waste and the fraud’ as Minnesota governor
18 Aug 2026
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an endorsement message from former U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andrew M. Luger
Lisa Demuth, speaker of the state’s House of Representatives and GOP nominee for governor, has made her fraud prevention plan a central part of her campaign
Demuth defeated MyPillow founder Mike Lindell in the August GOP primary
A June Mason-Dixon poll on the matchup between Demuth and Klobuchar had Klobuchar leading by 8 points in November.
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The stain of Minnesota’s fraud epidemic
“into a fiscal and moral steward of our tax dollars.”
“They took their eyes off Minnesota while the most vulnerable suffer and taxpayers are ripped off,”
Demuth will run on fraud to beat Klobuchar, but their anti-fraud proposals are similar
13 Aug 2026
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she will associate DFL nominee Amy Klobuchar with the social services fraud that happened under Walz’s watch, even though Klobuchar was in Washington as a U.S. Senator
“I have been talking about fraud since 2019,”
The alleged fraud has regarded Medicaid, COVID-era programs, and child care assistance, all which involve federal money.
two of which the Legislature accomplished in May: the creation of a new inspector general office and the ability to freeze payments on government contractors suspected of fraud
creating a Republican-majority House Fraud Prevention Committee as part of the House’s 2025 power-sharing agreement
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Klobuchar’s anti-fraud agenda is pretty similar.
Demuth may have a point that she has done more to shine a light on fraud.
if voters are looking for more than just retribution against the DFL, it bears watching if Demuth will do more to contrast her fraud fighting plans with Klobuchar