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Monday, February 3, 2020

News Alert: Anxious, excited Iowa Democrats face decision day

 
 
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Anxious, excited Iowa Democrats face decision day
DES MOINES, Iowa — The line to get into former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s last pre-caucus rally in Des Moines stretched hundreds of feet down the block and around a corner. Supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden stood in squelchy mud as they waited to get into a high school where he would make his final pitch. And Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took questions from an overflow room of supporters before she met the voters lucky enough to get tickets into a rally she held in tiny Indianola, a dozen miles south of the state capital.

“The bad news is there’s no more room inside,” Warren told the overflow crowd. “The good news is there’s no more room inside. Sounds like to me that Iowa is ready for some big structural change.”

Around the first-in-the-nation caucus state, tens of thousands of Democrats flocked to last-minute rallies in which the leading contenders made their case to win over undecided voters, and to fire up those who will serve as precinct captains, herding both supporters and potential backers into first- and second-round voting that will determine who comes out of Iowa with an early delegate lead.
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