ADAD“We have a jump ball,” said Jeff Link, a strategist who worked on Barack Obama’s winning 2008 Iowa campaign. AD“We have a lot of anecdotal accounts of people showing up to our events saying they have never caucused before,” said Brendan McPhillips, Buttigieg’s Iowa state director. “The people of Iowa are really starting to come through,” said Justin Buoen, Klobuchar’s campaign manager. The stakes are higher for Warren and Buttigieg, who committed heavily to the state in hopes it would propel them to later contests. Strategists say they have been surprised by how fluid voters in Iowa have been in moving between candidates with very different ideological profiles.

Source: Washington Post January 05, 2020 00:51 UTC