She becomes the first woman elected by Minnesotans to the U.S. Senate.

Minnesotans for the first time elected a woman to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as DFL candidate Amy Klobuchar won a landslide victory.

A beaming Klobuchar, flanked by her husband and 11-year-old daughter, took the stage at a St. Paul hotel at 10 p.m. to explosive cheers, pounding drum music and chants of "Amy, Amy!"Today you had the chance to raise your voice for change," she told the crowd, "and you did it."

Klobuchar called her GOP rival, Mark Kennedy, "a tenacious, hard-working opponent with a supportive family, and we wish them our best."

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