The Minnesota Democrat told Reuters before the January 14 primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa, that going into a head-to-head with Trump “without some animation” would be a “problem,” and said it would be necessary to “show how absurd he is.”

But she also said it would be important to ignore the president. “First of all, you have to have that ability to make a joke or poke at him or just show how absurd he is. Because he does use humor,” Klobuchar told Reuters.

“A lot of people, including myself, just don’t always think it’s funny, but you gotta remember that. So just meeting it without some animation and some humor I think is a problem…The second [thing] is just ignoring him. Sometimes he wants you to go down the rabbit hole with him.”

Speaking about her chances of winning back Trump voters if she becomes the Democratic presidential nominee, Klobuchar said she had won elections in “the reddest of red congressional districts.”

“I’ve done it by speaking truth to power. And by really focusing on issues that help people,” the senator said. “It’s a very simple view of democracy. But I think people are looking for a little less drama and a little more progress.”

Newsweek contacted the Klobuchar campaign for further comment and will update this article with any response.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show mocked Klobuchar back in September for making the same joke about Trump at several events.

“He made fun of me for talking about climate change in the middle of blizzard, and he called me ‘snow woman,’” she said at the start of her oft-repeated punchline. “So I wrote back: Hey Donald Trump, the science is on my side, and I’d like to see how your hair would fare in a blizzard.”

Sharing a clip of Klobuchar repeating her blizzard joke at different campaign events, The Daily Show tweeted: “Amy Klobuchar has a joke she’d like you to hear.”

A new poll published on Friday by the Des Moines Register found 6 percent of Iowa Democrats backed Klobuchar, putting her in fifth place and 14 points behind the frontrunner Senator Bernie Sanders.

The RealClearPolitics average of national Democratic primary polling puts the Minnesota senator in seventh place with just 2.8 percent support among party voters.