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. Many of the words and phrases on the slips reflected the vocabulary of Ms. Warren’s presidential bid: Break up big tech. 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. Ms. Warren’s campaign spent more than $5 million over the first three months of the year, the most in the field, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Source: New York Times May 02, 2019 16:46 UTC