I just want to say amen and now pass it to Senator Klobuchar. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota.

During the State of the Union speech on Thursday, Biden will falsely claim that his policies are working, but in reality, Bidenomics is a failure. When Biden took office, inflation was 1.4 percent. Since then, inflation has risen by nearly…

It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him and I hope he does that.

Russia said once they take Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics are next. Those are NATO countries, and that puts America at war. This is about preventing war.

I also have one, the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, which would allow victims of human trafficking to tell their story.

This is an incredibly important topic that spans--it is bipartisan, it is not a Black or White issue or a red or blue.

South Carolina was considered to be the most improved State in the country in dealing with human trafficking.

If you don't think you need that 30 or 40 percent of us, you are showing exactly why you're going to lose a general election.

I think that's dangerous. I think that's not what Americans want.

The problem is when he had the opportunity to stop it... he was silent.

I don't think that we need two candidates in their 80s. I don't think we want a Joe Biden, who calls his opponents fascists or a Donald Trump, who calls his opponents vermin.

We can't say that our only options are Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

If 70% of Americans say they don't want Donald Trump or Joe Biden, that's not a small number.

I think you need to have the Supreme Court settle this. I don't think that a president should be immune from anything. I think that a president has to live under laws too.

This primary is, 'What is the direction of the Republican Party?'

I don't think there should ever be a president that's above the law.

I'm doing this because I think we have a country to save.

If we don't work with our allies to give them the equipment and ammunition to win, if Ukraine falls, Russia will go further.