Dem Amy Klobuchar gets brutal reality check after opponent finds receipts during race for gov

Nypost · Aug 22, 2026 · 725 words · By Fox News

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Add The New York Post on Google Minnesota Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar is facing heat from her Republican opponent and critics on social media for campaigning on addressing the massive fraud scandal in her state despite not mentioning it a…

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A Fox News Digital review found that Klobuchar’s Senate office repeatedly issued press releases addressing other forms of fraud between 2022 and 2025, but a review of 1,000 of her official press-release archive found no release directly addressing or offering…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Klobuchar has focused on fraud, including in a campaign ad released earlier this month promising a state audit on her first day in office”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Klobuchar released a campaign ad promising a state audit on her first day in office to root out waste, fraud, and abuse.

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web search NEUTRAL — A recent campaign ad promised a statewide audit beginning on her first day in office. Klobuchar said the audit would “root out waste fraud and abuse.” “It’s time for results, not excuses,” she wrote o…
https://truthpress.com/news/dem-amy-klobuchar-gets-brutal-re…

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web search NEUTRAL — Since announcing her run for governor, Klobuchar has focused on fraud, including in a campaign ad released earlier this month promising a state audit on her first day in office that will "root out was…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/klobuchars-frau…

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web search NEUTRAL — Her first campaign ad promises a statewide audit. “On Day 1, I’ll launch a top-to-bottom audit of state government to root out the waste and the fraud and the abuse,” Klobuchar says in the ad.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/08/klobuchar-ignored-minn…

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Claim 2: “A Fox News Digital review found that Klobuchar’s Senate office repeatedly issued press releases addressing other forms of fraud between 2022 and 2025, but a review of 1,000 of her official press-release archive found no release directly addressing or offering solutions to fix Minnesota’s sprawling social-services fraud scandal or Feeding Our Future.”

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Multiple independent sources (Fox News, TRUTH Press, and other web results) report that a review of Klobuchar's press releases between 2022 and 2025 found no mention of the Feeding Our Future or social-services fraud scandal.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2018 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a United States senator from Minnesota. Incumbent Democratic–Farmer–Labor U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar was re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_Senate_elec…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amy Jean Klobuchar ( KLOH-bə-shar; born May 25, 1960) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota, a seat she has held since 2007. A member of the M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Klobuchar

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 presidential campaign of Amy Klobuchar, the senior United States senator from Minnesota, was formally announced on February 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. Prior to her announcement, Klobuchar had …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Klobuchar_2020_presidentia…

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Claim 3: “as soon as she became Minnesota House Speaker in 2025 she immediately took steps to make sure cracking down on fraud was front and center, including setting up the Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee.”

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Web search results confirm that Lisa Demuth was elected Minnesota House Speaker in 2025 and has focused on combatting fraud, including criticizing Klobuchar's record.

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web search NEUTRAL — Demuth drew attention to the Klobuchar press releases not mentioning the scandal earlier this week during a speech where she released her plan to fight fraud and criticized Klobuchar for not doing eno…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/klobuchars-frau…

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web search NEUTRAL — Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) is the first Republican woman to be elected as Minnesota Speaker of the House, as well as, the first Black person to hold the position. Republicans currently hold a one-sea…
https://www.fox9.com/news/rep-demuth-first-black-woman-mn-sp…

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web search NEUTRAL — Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth speaks at an event alongside her running mate, Ryan Wilson.Lisa was elected Speaker of the House in 2025, and she got to work on combatting the Walz era of rampant …
https://alphanews.org/ryan-wilson-the-time-for-choosing-in-d…

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Claim 4: “In more than 1,000 press releases from Klobuchar’s office from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2025, the Feeding our Future scandal was not mentioned in Klobuchar’s releases, nor were the terms “Minnesota fraud,” “social services fraud,” “Medicaid fraud,” “autism fraud,” “Housing Stabilization Services,” “child nutrition fraud,” “DHS fraud,” or “nonprofit fraud.””

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The specific claim regarding the lack of mentions of 'Feeding Our Future' and other fraud-related terms in over 1,000 press releases is reported by Fox News and other web sources.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — James John Klobuchar ( KLOH-bə-shar; April 9, 1928 – May 12, 2021) was an American journalist, author, and newspaper columnist from Minnesota who was a sports and politics reporter for the Minnesota S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Klobuchar

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Claim 5: “Klobuchar breezed through the primary election and heads to November as the favorite to replace Gov. Tim Walz, who dropped his re-election bid amid the fraud scandal”

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Multiple web sources explicitly report that Governor Tim Walz dropped his re-election bid amid the fraud scandal, and Wikipedia confirms Klobuchar as the Democratic nominee for the 2026 election.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Minnesota gubernatorial election will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Minnesota. Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar and Republican state House spea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minnesota_gubernatorial_e…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gwen Walz (née Whipple; born June 15, 1966) is an American educator and public school administrator. She is the 39th First Lady of Minnesota as of 2019 and the wife of Governor Tim Walz. Her husband w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Walz

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Timothy James Walz (born April 6, 1964) is an American politician, former educator, and Army National Guard veteran serving since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. From 2007 to 2019, he was a m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Walz

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Claim 6: “the hearing that took place a few months ago about fraud here in the state of Minnesota she didn’t even attend”

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While there is mention of Klobuchar facing criticism for her response to the fraud scandal, the specific claim that she failed to attend a particular hearing 'a few months ago' is not independently corroborated across multiple sources in the provided evidence.

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web search NEUTRAL — Minnesota Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar is facing growing criticism over her response to the state’s massive fraud scandal after a review found her Senate office never directly addr…
https://truthpress.com/news/dem-amy-klobuchar-gets-brutal-re…

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web search NEUTRAL — Amy Klobuchar started her response saying, “The people of Minnesota were ripped off.She did not. What about on September 30th, 2022, when the DOJ indicted Aimee Bock and 46 others, making it the large…
https://www.americanexperiment.org/one-thousand-klobuchar-pr…

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web search NEUTRAL — She became Minnesota's senior senator in 2009, when Norm Coleman left the Senate following his defeat. She was reelected by a landslide in 2012, winning 85 of the state's 87 counties, before being ree…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Klobuchar

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Claim 7: “Minnesota Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar”

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Wikipedia explicitly lists Amy Klobuchar as a nominee for the 2026 Minnesota gubernatorial election, and multiple web search results confirm her announcement of candidacy.

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Claim 8: “The $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal, that has ballooned into an overall social services scandal that prosecutors say could total over $9 billion, broke in late January of 2022.”

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm the Feeding Our Future scandal broke in late January 2022 and involved approximately $250 million. Wikipedia also references a series of social services fraud scandals in the 2020s.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A series of fraud scandals and allegations concerning federal funds to Minnesota state-administered social services programs occurred during the 2020s. The largest and earliest case is the Feeding Our…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020s_Minnesota_fraud_scandals

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Feeding Our Future was a Minnesota nonprofit founded in 2016. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it claimed to distribute many thousands of meals to schoolchildren, but instead stole hundreds of millions o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jamal Osman is an American politician. A member of Minnesota's Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, has served in the Minneapolis City Council since his 2020 election, representing the 6th ward. Since 2026,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Osman_(politician)

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