Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) — who has been Minnesota’s one and only Senator since the first week of January — appeared on MSNBC today and fired back at NRSC chairman John Cornyn for saying this week that it could take “years” to resolve her state’s disputed Senate race:
KLOBUCHAR: Well, one of the other things he said, David, he said that we could go in Minnesota with one senator for years. And I would love to know how Texas would like that. I think that Minnesota would prefer to make its own decisions. I think we have a process that’s taken a while. I think it’s a fair process. It’s going to–after these votes are opened up, Norm Coleman will make a decision about whether he wants to go up to the Minnesota Supreme Court. There’s a process in place for that. Then I’m hoping it’s done.
Meanwhile, Roll Call reports that Norm Coleman was meeting with the NRSC in Washington today, to review the party’s strategy and official message in light of this week’s court ruling that seemed to shoot down his attempts to get more previously-rejected absentee votes into the count.
“He believes that he won the race and won’t concede until there is a fair and accurate accounting of all properly registered voters or a new election is held, whichever is cleaner,” a GOP source told Roll Call. “If he wanted to protect his political future he would drop it, but this is about justice to him, not a political seat.”
