The 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, Walz abandoned his campaign for a third term earlier this month amid criticism over mismanagement of taxpayer funding for child care programs. She avoided direct mention of ongoing fraud investigations into the child care programs that Trump has made a political cudgel. Klobuchar gained attention during Trump’s first term for her questioning of his judicial nominees including now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 2020 presidential bidKlobuchar sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, running as a moderate in the same political lane as Biden. Tuberville is in the final year of his six-year term and will leave the Senate in January 2027 regardless.