On Day One, Kirsten Gillibrand faces the ‘likable’ question

Standing in front of a diner with her family in Upstate New York on Wednesday morning, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) fielded the first media question of her newly announced presidential campaign.

A reporter declared that “a lot of people see you as pretty likable, a nice person, given the person who we have in the White House” and asked whether that was a “selling point.” He compared her to another Democratic senator considering a run for president whom he also deemed likable — Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota — and asked whether voters want “someone like that now.”