The campaigns are telegraphing which states they’re prioritizing and which ones they don’t think they can win.
Bernie Sanders must win New Hampshire. Julian Castro is letting it all ride on Nevada. South Carolina is essential to Cory Booker’s chances.
From the ground up, here is how early-state Democrats characterize the state of the Democratic primary.As the adage goes, Iowa doesn’t always pick the winners, but it almost always picks the losers. That’s likely to be truer in 2020 than ever before.— those are just a few of the candidates who need a strong finish in the Feb. 3 caucuses to realistically move on.
Expectations are especially high for him, according to early-state leaders and rival campaign officials: The strength of his candidacy will be measured not by whether he can win Iowa, but by how much. A sign of the import Sanders places on the state: he’s shifting away from straight-up rallies and now taking questions at events, a reflection of Iowa voters’ demands for more interaction with candidates.
The scale of her expansive ground organization indicates her ambitions. She has said her intention is to compete in all four early states, and proved it by placing 200 paid staffers in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
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