Biden, meanwhile, was quickly discovering that there was a difference between winning public opinion and winning party energy. A Special Election is any election that is not regularly scheduled. “I’m going to sit down here,” he said onstage at a Las Vegas restaurant in early October. Yet his polling was resilient. The pivot also brought veteran talent to a campaign that until then had been almost entirely run by people younger than 40. Read about Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Arizona, and sign up for The Trailer and get more states, plus more news and insight from the trail, in your inbox three days a week. “My question now for you is: Are you willing to fight for that person as hard as you fight for yourself?”.

He and his aides had written a new line, which would become a staple of her remarks. DES MOINES — Perhaps Iowa is clinging to its politically purple status after all. Each of the top four contenders held a polling lead at one point in the state, where uncertainty and a desire to defeat President Trump were the dominant feelings among caucus-goers. “Democrats love Joe Biden,” said one pollster, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was talking about another campaign.

Some proposed that he come out of the gate with a “more aggressively left-leaning posture,” said one aide who attended the meeting.

It didn’t matter that the senator was still speaking. But holes in the campaign remained in the final months. Where Biden and Trump stand on key issues defining the election.

By the time Warren landed in Iowa five days later, strangers who had become volunteers were directing traffic in the parking lot of a Council Bluffs bowling alley. The numbers they reported back to Buttigieg in his suite at a downtown Des Moines Marriott cheered everyone in the room. He didn’t believe the rise of Trump had changed either. A special election may be held for any purpose authorized or required by law; often to fill a vacancy or for a public measure. Biden even imported Democrats of color from other parts of the country who traveled across the state as part of a “We Know Joe” bus tour to woo undecided Iowans, who have been especially outspoken about how their choice in the caucus might play in battleground states.

Buttigieg during the interview said he it is important for Democrats to regain the trust of voters who voted for Republican President Donald Trump after previously voting for Democratic President Barack Obama. The script that Biden’s brain trust crafted leaned heavily on a legacy that much of the country already knew — words such as “malarkey,” verbal tics such as “seriously, folks” and mottos about rebuilding the backbone of the nation that had been prepped for a potential 2016 presidential campaign he never ran. During the big game in bad weather, more than 700 people showed up and stood for hours in freezing temperatures and drizzle to see him speak. Despite the embarrassing end to its 2020 caucuses, Iowa nonetheless provided an unexpected — and potentially transformative — twist to what has been a consistently unpredictable Democratic nomination fight. Some states have already started sending out mail ballots; see how to make sure yours counts. With 100 percent of precincts reporting Thursday night, Buttigieg held a narrow lead of 26.2 percent in state delegate equivalents, the traditional metric by which an Iowa winner has been determined. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a Democratic candidate for president, speaks during a campaign rally at Franklin Junior High School in Des Moines on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. A super PAC the Biden campaign had blessed in October provided the air cover his own coffers could not afford, pushing back against the $10 million in anti-Biden spending that the Trump campaign had approved nationally to tar Biden and defend against impeachment. How to vote: Find out the rules in your state. My pitch was, ‘There is a sleeping giant awakening in America.’ ”. The country needed healing and a hug from a man who had been through more than most and understood. The campaign would start with the heart of the matter: Trump’s equivocating response to the march of white nationalists in Charlottesville in August 2017. The outcome would be far messier than anyone expected, mired in chaos and uncertainty in the wake of the state party’s counting meltdown — so much so that Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Thursday called on the state party to begin a “recanvass” of the caucus results. “When I finally found the organizer, he said he would get back to me, but I never heard a thing,” she said. Fresh rounds commenced in the summer, and the new numbers informed the campaign’s aggressive ad strategy and sharpened focus on economic issues, said two people with knowledge of the situation. When Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, toured western Iowa in mid-January, less than a month before the caucuses, she was introduced in Audubon by an organizer who said it was his first week on the job. “To have that kind of showing for a beloved former vice president, his own campaign failed him. .

Her rivals Biden, Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) accused her of acting like a typical politician and not being direct with voters. In late April, Biden joined the race, giving Sanders a new problem. They had come to see her. He grew up on the city's west side, attending Theodore Roosevelt High School and Iowa State University. Her polling began to slouch in Iowa. DES MOINES --- Pete Buttigieg figured this early in his presidential campaign he still would be helping people learn how to pronounce and spell his last name. At a half-full predinner rally, Biden staff could be seen holding thick handfuls of tickets that they were struggling to give away. Supporter of Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg listen as he speaks at a caucus night rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Feb. 3, … “Who inches ahead in the end is meaningless,” Sanders said Thursday in New Hampshire. By the end of the summer, there was a growing consensus that she was in a strong position to win Iowa. This webpage was printed on October 1, 2020. Warren has approached the same question from the opposite direction. But the state party was unable to collate the results.

In Des Moines County, the city of Burington has provisions where if enough candidates file to run for Mayor or City Council a city primary election would be held in October to determine the candidates for the regular city election in November.
Said Zephyr Teachout, an organizer on Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign who met with Warren in person: “I practiced and practiced this speech to convince her. Keep up on the latest in national and local politics as Election 2020 comes into focus. We have a lot of work to do.”, Despite his lack of national profile before entering the race, Buttigieg in recent polls, both nationally and in myriad states, has been placing among the second tier candidates behind polling front-runners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Later that month, a group of Biden supporters appealed to the campaign and even the candidate himself, urging him to pursue a more robust schedule of smaller, more personal events that would allow him to connect with state Democrats and put to rest questions about the 77-year-old’s age and agility. The outcome came down to organization, timing, luck and one unexpected misfortune.
In Iowa, his team leaned heavily on a smartphone app that allowed supporters to share information about everyone they knew, to help build the campaign’s voter file and improve its targeting. JOHNSTON — Iowa is breaking with federal guidance on quarantine recommendations in a move that could allow more school students to remain in s…. It was magnificent.”. “The first thing I said to him was, ‘You are going to win Iowa,’ ” recalls John Del Cecato, one of those admakers.

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“It means victorious over a lot of things — victorious because a year ago, it was just four staffers, victorious in terms of overperforming the expectations, and victorious in that we beat a crop of senators and a former vice president,” said one of the advisers in the room.

“I wouldn’t call it a ‘come to Jesus’ moment, but that’s what it was,” one longtime Iowa supporter said, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to anger the campaign. The disease, she thought, was not Trump, but decades of policy choices in Washington that had made voters look to a demagogic politician like him in the first place. In Dubuque, where the candidate’s sister Valerie Biden Owens held a private meeting with a group of undecided voters last week, one attendee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to embarrass the local Biden organizers, said she was still undecided in the race in part because of questions she had about Biden’s ground game.