Presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Thursday commemorated Love My Newspaper Day with a post about her father, who was a journalist. 

"Thinking of my dad on #LoveMyNewspaper Day," the senator wrote of her father, Jim Klobuchar.

"He got his start in the newspaper business delivering Grit, a small-town & rural weekly paper & went on to work 43 years in journalism," she added. "He taught me the importance of a free press and now more than ever- it's crucial to our democracy."

Klobuchar is among more than a dozen people running for the 2020 Democratic nomination. The party's nominee will likely face off against President Trump, who has often criticized the press and called unflattering reports "fake news."