The New Jersey senator was one of the first major candidates to roll out an early and extensive campaign operation in Iowa, and the results look promising
is an outsize personality, and it’s his rhetorical flourishes that regularly draw attention. At the most recent nationally televised debate, Booker turned to“Mr. Vice President, there’s a saying in my community—you’re dipping into the Kool-Aid when you don’t even know the flavor.
In a campaign with high stakes, in an enormous field of candidates, in a state that takes its politics seriously, the inside baseball moves matter even more than usual. “There’s not a lot of people who have made up their minds yet,” saysthe secretary treasurer for the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. “In the labor community, I don’t sense that there is anybody who is the standout candidate right now, nobody who everyone’s kind of coalescing around.
Biden remains the leader of the pack, but Iowa Democratic players chatter about how his state operation seems to be dominated by Washington consultants. They note that voters are open tobut that both ramped up their Iowa operations relatively late. “The endorsements by state legislators mean nothing to most people,” the veteran Iowa strategist says. “Electeds will show up and give a speech here and there, and that’s it.
was doing better among that cohort than Biden is doing now. Winning Iowa was important, but we had a long-term strategy in place and were already moving African American voters toward us in South Carolina. The idea that black people were waiting for white people in Iowa to say Obama was okay before they’d vote for him is fundamentally a racist argument. It wasn’t the case at all.”
Yet the challenge for Booker is different, magnifying the importance of Iowa to him. The 2020 field is nearly four times larger than what Obama faced in 2008, so the caucus results should drastically winnow the field. Booker’s camp believes he needs to place strongly in the top five in Iowa in order to be viable in the next set of primary states, and to dent Biden’s “electability” argument.
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