Only Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) are more popular among Democrats in their states.

86% of Democrats, 52% of independents and 30% of Republicans in Minnesota approve of her.

Klobuchar’s home-state popularity is greater than that of the four other Senate Democrats to enter the 2020 presidential race.

But among voters who know her best, the ones in her native Minnesota – part of a region where Democrats lost ground in 2016 – she grades extremely well. Fifty-eight percent of registered voters in Minnesota approved of Klobuchar’s job performance in the fourth quarter of 2018, making her the third-most popular Democratic senator in the latest Morning Consult’s Senator Approval Rankings , behind Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the most popular Democrat.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the latest to join the growing field of Democratic presidential candidates, is beginning her campaign with a low national profile.

And compared with the four other Senate Democrats who also say they are running for president, she’s the most popular among her own constituents.

The Gopher State’s senior senator will hope that her “Minnesota nice” public profile warms voters at the national level, where she remains relatively unknown, even among Democrats.

The latest Morning Consult/Politico national survey, conducted Feb. 1-2, found 41 percent of Democrats – and 47 percent of voters overall – said they’ve never heard of Klobuchar, more than twice the share who were unfamiliar with California Sen. Kamala Harris and nearly four times the share who said the same of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Twenty-two percent of Democrats said they have never heard of New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, and 36 percent said in a Jan. 18-22 survey they’d never heard of New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

It makes Klobuchar one of the least-known presidential aspirants, compared to other possible top Democratic contenders, though her name ID has increased in recent weeks amid talk of a possible presidential bid. Among Democrats nationwide, 27 percent said they had a favorable impression of her and 9 percent said unfavorable.

Her home-state metrics stacked up favorably compared to that of her colleagues.