Hi, this is Lily from St. Paul, Minnesota, where I just stood in a snowstorm to watch Amy Klobuchar announce her candidacy for president.

This podcast was recorded at...

12.37pm on Monday, February 11th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

Alright, here's the show.

I hope she's warm now, finally.

That announcement was like something out of the Empire Strikes Pack. There was so much snow!

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast, and over the weekend, even more Democrats made it official and joined the race for president of the United States.

I'm Tamar Keith, I cover the White House.

I'm Asma Khaled, political reporter.

And I'm Scott Detra, I cover Congress.

And Scott and Asma, I'm here all alone in Studio 34 because you guys are out on the road reporting.

So tell me where you've been.

Well, I've been out in New Hampshire, I spent Saturday with Ohio Senator Shared Brown.

And you may not think of him necessarily as a presidential candidate because he has not officially declared what he's doing, whether he's in or he's out, but he's certainly mulling a run.

And so he's been going on this listening tour to a bunch of key early voting states.

And I was with him on Saturday to just get a sense of what his message is and how folks are responding to him.

And Scott, you are currently in a car, is that right?

You know a new campaign has started if I'm taping a podcast sitting in a park car.

Luckily, I am in South Carolina where sitting in a park car when the engine off is much less of a problem than it would be in Iowa or New Hampshire at this time of year.

I'm in Sumter, South Carolina, where I've been following around Cory Booker for the last few days.

He got into the race about a week ago and this was his first campaigns win.

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