A day or two after Sanders' heart attack, Pete D'Alessandro, who helped run the senator's 2016 Iowa campaign and served this time around as a senior adviser there, left his place in Des Moines and stopped by a local field office.
The explosion of unsolicited volunteer activity confirmed what many on his staff already suspected -- or hoped to be true: that their decision to hand over so much power to supporters had created a campaign machinery that would not be slowed, or deterred, by even what many looking in from the outside considered an existential crisis.
But in a primary contest, especially one that culminates in the deep of winter, more mundane challenges can also feel like defining tests.In Iowa, that means dealing with the weather. And in the first few weeks of the new year, it meant that organizers had to navigate a storm front that forced a number of campaigns to cancel scheduled events.
"That's how we win elections, when neighbors talk to neighbors, when we do social media, when we interact with each other," Sanders said at a canvass launch in Hudson, New Hampshire, on the eve of the vote. "When we have those quarters where you're reporting it as X million dollars and this many donors, those donors become an actual part of the grassroots movement. They become part of the field operation," D'Alessandro said. "So when you're looking at it, rightfully so, as whatever it was, 1.2 million individual donors, we also look at it as 1.
"The Latino electorate's vote preference in Iowa is likely to influence the outcome of the 2020 Democratic primary in other states that have sizable Latino electorates, namely Nevada, California, Texas and elsewhere in the Southwest and Northeast," the survey's authors wrote. The campaign says it has 11 offices, 250 staffers and had by Saturday reached more than 350,000 doorsteps -- talking to voters in and around Las Vegas, but also in the northeast, closer to Utah than California, in places like Elko, a city of around 20,000 off Interstate 80.to anyone paying attention. The campaign opened its first Nevada field office in East Las Vegas, home to the highest concentration of Latinos in the state.
Because America is tired of the same old dnc
Fighting for people. Not big money interest. End.
Trump is so Afraid of Joe Biden, he will do anything to to stop him. Him and his Evil followers are doing a good job. Hope they can live with that. Any human being with morals could not live with this.
He'll be there at the end too.
A man who has never shaken in his principles for decades and champions ordinary citizens over the status quo of corporate exploitation. Hmmm. How indeed.
The world needs more Bernie Sanders. Specially America. It affects everyone. It affects Canada. It affects world peace positively. But unfortunately, despite him having the grassroots and the majority with him, he won't win. The Rep/Dem Establishment just won't let that happen
Never forget.
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