I had a great conversation recently with Sara Huddleston, one of our candidates on the State Slate (which I hope to put online soon) that reminds me to re-iterate the 'reverse coattails' strategy we are following in 2020, by promoting downticket races. A short thread:
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Iowa statewide polls show a very tight race right now between Theresa Greenfield and incumbent senator Joni Ernst. If you believe (like I do) that there is no more important goal than winning the Senate, what's the best way to help Greenfield win? (source here
@FiveThirtyEight)pic.twitter.com/6GLvvEJnyL
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One obvious way is to give money to Greenfield. But can the Greenfield campaign usefully spend it? Every rich Democrat with a spreadsheet has given to this Senate race, and all they have to do is tweet out a picture of their dog to raise $132K.https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/510318-iowa-senate-candidate-raise-132k-after-dog-goes-viral …
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You can assume that this Senate campaign, like all the competitive ones, won't be usefully able to spend a marginal dollar. So where else can we spend it? The approach we've taken this year is to look downballot, to see if candidates there can broaden the Democratic electorate
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One place to look is western Iowa, which is rural, Republican, and therefore invisible from Des Moines. We've been supporting
@JDScholten for a while. On his first run in 2018, he got 24,000 more votes than there are Democrats in the district. He swung his race by 24 points!pic.twitter.com/kNG1ghhUla
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I mean his district voted +27% for Trump in 2016, and +3% for Scholten's opponent, Steve King in 2018
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