For more than a year, the Democratic presidential contenders have been camping out in Iowa, pitching their case to the first-in-the-nation caucusgoers for why they should be the party’s nominee in July. From campaign stops to house parties to rallies in every corner of the state and across Iowa'
For more than a year, the Democratic presidential contenders have been camping out in Iowa, pitching their case to the first-in-the-nation caucusgoers for why they should be the party’s nominee in July.
The candidates’ closing arguments, which are often threaded into their stump speeches and echoed in TV and digital ads, all center on a refined answer to the question of electability and also show the nuanced differences between the presidential hopefuls, particularly the top tier. Biden continues to lean into that message of moral leadership to contrast himself with Trump, relying on his decades of experience to win over an undecided electorate.
"This is no time to take a risk. We need our strongest candidate. So let’s nominate the Democrat Trump fears the most. Vote Biden. Beat Trump," one of Biden's closing ads says. In Indianola on Saturday, which marked his return to the stump after nearly a week in Washington, Sanders made the most of his face time with caucusgoers, arguing that his prowess as an organizer will give him a competitive edge to go toe-to-toe with Trump in a general election.
"Suddenly, Donald Trump is talking about our campaign. Suddenly the Republican National Committee is tweeting about our campaign," he said to a crowd of 1,100 people in Sioux City."Suddenly we have the Democratic establishment very nervous about this campaign.”Mayor Pete pitches his political outsider status, youth as an edgeFormer South Bend, Ind.
Despite focusing his message on unity, at the same time, Buttigieg has started to invoke his rivals by name in the last week -- a significant shift for the former mayor who would previously only take veiled jabs at his competitors. Under pressure"to do very well" in Iowa, as he said in Waterloo on Saturday, he began directly targeting his top two opponents in the state just four days before Monday’s contest.
Despite the slip in polling, as part of her final push before Iowa, Warren continues to pitch herself as a fighter who can win by unifying a swath of voters behind her campaign, including Republicans. "When Donald Trump got elected, the world changed," Warren told supporters in Cedar Rapids."Women candidates have been outperforming men candidates ever since. I just want to be clear: women win."
The squabbles between the two elder statesmen come as both Biden and Sanders compete for the country’s blue-collar voters -- seeking to recapture the working class bloc that drifted to Trump in 2016. But the leading candidates are also contending with a still unsettled contest, and a middle tier seeing some significant momentum. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who has picked up steam throughout the first month of the election year, has spent the last few weeks leaning into her Midwestern values and her ability to win in"fly-over country," as she racks up endorsements from the New York Times, Iowa’s Quad City Times and a slate of former and current lawmakers.
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