NEW: There were months of warning signs for Biden in Iowa and efforts at a turnaround beginning in Nov. But his team never caught up to opponents organizationally and his electability argument wasn’t enough. Could portend more trouble ahead.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/biden-slump-in-iowa-may-signal-bigger-campaign-woes …
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Lots of credit to
@tylerpager for spending the past many months digging in deep to source up in Iowa and getting a handle early. In October he wrote, based on solid sourcing, that Biden could come in fourth in Iowa, just as the former VP appears to have.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/biden-slump-in-iowa-may-signal-bigger-campaign-woes …Show this thread -
Take this all a big grain of salt. Biden still goes into Nevada, South Carolina and the early March states at a big advantage. Demographics are on his side. His message seems to fit what voters there want. His strategy was always more math than momentum.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/biden-slump-in-iowa-may-signal-bigger-campaign-woes …
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“It felt like a campaign for old people, by old people, with old people,” Iowa’s
@sdvorsky1 says of what she saw from Biden in her state.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/biden-slump-in-iowa-may-signal-bigger-campaign-woes …Show this thread
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