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Warren travels country to build primary momentum | TheHill

posted onJuly 14, 2019
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Article snippet: MORE is sticking out in the Democratic field by spending a considerable amount of time campaigning across the country — rather than focusing her efforts on Iowa, New Hampshire and the other two earliest voting states. Warren’s travels have taken her to many of the states voting on next year’s Super Tuesday on March 3, 2020, as well as to some states voting after those primaries and caucuses. The trips include visits to more than 20 states — such as Alabama, Utah and Colorado, which are all Super Tuesday states. She’s also visited Puerto Rico, which won’t hold its Democratic Primary until June 7, 2020. This spring, she traveled to states including West Virginia, where she gave an address on opioid addiction, a huge issue in the state. Its primary is on May 12. The effort is part of a broader organizing strategy that Warren aides and allies say will help her campaign set itself up for Super Tuesday and beyond next year.  “Every single day we organize across the country as we lay the groundwork to have a large movement of grass-roots supporters that will own a piece of this campaign and be in the fight with us,” said Chris Hayden, a Warren spokesman. One aide said Warren is benefiting from “mini interactions” with thousands of voters across the country that could help her win the nomination.  To date, Warren has hosted 109 town halls with 494 audience questions, aides on her campaign say. She has also taken more than 37,000 selfies with those who attend her rallies,... Link to the full article to read more

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