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The rumor —that popular four-term Senator Amy Klobuchar might fly in to save the day like Glinda the Good Witch— was sourced to two anonymous people “briefed on conversations.” Briefed on. Meaning: they didn’t hear the conversations. Lawyers call that double hearsay. The paper then added that Klobuchar “did not respond” to requests for comment. I’m calling BS.

Klobuchar, 65, currently infests a safe, low-effort Senate seat not up again until 2029. She could ride it until she’s 106. Why would she abandon the safe 6-year Senatorial term for a four-year, accountability-heavy, scandal-soaked governorship that Walz just turned into a furious Superfund site? That would be like trading the Wizard’s suite in the Emerald City for the old farmhouse that just crushed the witch— to help “stabilize” it. Not to mention that, historically, Democrats elevate senators to the presidency, not governors. (Curiously, the Times skipped all that analysis.)

A far more plausible explanation is that Klobuchar’s Sunday meeting with Walz was not exploratory— it was terminal. The Obama-Pelosi-Biden treatment. The Times offhandedly admitted that “Democrats in the state had voiced concern in recent weeks that Mr. Walz’s presence on the ticket might hurt other Democrats in November.” Translation: top donors and party leadership decided Walz had become a down-ballot liability. So they voted him off the flying monkey team.

I will eat my ruby slippers if Klobuchar runs. She wasn’t there to discuss running for governor, give me a break. She was there to tell Tim he was melting. Libs and their corporate media allies are now flooding the zone with zero-calorie “Democrats thrilled” stories about Klobuchar as savior, in a vain attempt to reframe the narrative from collapse to orderly succession.