Kamala Harris will "exponentially" increase the time she's spending in Iowa. Bernie Sanders is shaking up his operations there and in New Hampshire. With just over four months until the Iowa caucuses usher in the battle for the Democratic nomination, candidates are shifting their approaches
1 / 3Election 2020 DebateDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. speaks Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. DES MOINES, Iowa — Kamala Harris will"exponentially" increase the time she's spending in Iowa. Bernie Sanders is shaking up his operations there and in New Hampshire.
Harris was the latest candidate to pivot after a challenging summer in which she's struggled to catch up to early front-runner Joe Biden or capture the same energy as Elizabeth Warren. Juan Rodriguez, Harris' campaign manager, told reporters Thursday that the California senator is going big in Iowa, dedicating 60 paid staffers to the state.
Joe Trippi, who ran Dean's campaign, said no one should be counted out despite polls that show a largely static top tier of candidates including Biden, Sanders and Warren. Speaking to reporters after a campaign stop in Coralville, Harris said she'd be spending as much time in Iowa as possible in the coming months and joked that she"got very little sleep last night trying to figure out where my sweaters and my boots are." But she called the decision to refocus her time on Iowa a"tradeoff" that was"frustrating" for her to make.
Other candidates are also planning a fall surge in Iowa. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has rapidly expanded his paid staffers in the state, bringing his total to 100, one of the field's most expansive Iowa footprints.
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