NYT: Elizabeth Warren's Campaign, 'Based on Ideas,' Bets on Iowa

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By Thomas Kaplan
May 2, 2019

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — It was game time at the “Persist Party.”

Grace Smith, a 23-year-old field organizer for Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, outlined the rules. The dozen or so Iowans gathered in a volunteer’s family room would split into two teams, pick paper slips from a bag and try to get their teammates to guess what was on them.

Many of the words and phrases on the slips reflected the vocabulary of Ms. Warren’s presidential bid: Break up big tech. Ultra-millionaire wealth tax. Student debt cancellation. Impeachment. When the game ended, “Persist” koozies were awarded to the winners.

Ms. Smith is one of about 50 paid staff members Ms. Warren’s campaign already has on the ground in Iowa, far more than any other Democratic candidate is known to have hired in the state. The growing Warren juggernaut reflects a bet that rapidly hiring a large staff of organizers will give the senator an advantage over her rivals who are ramping up their efforts at a slower pace.

FULL story: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-iowa.html


Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is making frequent visits to Iowa and already has 50 paid campaign staff members in the state. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times