Here's why it sometimes makes sense to campaign far from the early presidential states
When Elizabeth Warren wanted to talk about the nation’s opioid epidemic last month, she went to West Virginia — a state hard-hit by drug deaths but of little consequence to the presidential nominating contest.
“Going into West Virginia, Oklahoma, Northern Florida, those are the areas where you need to be able to go in and talk to people,” said Mathew Littman, a Democratic strategist and former Joe Biden speechwriter who now supports Kamala Harris. “If people disagree with you, that’s OK. If you’re able to go in and talk about your ideas, and it gets covered … I think it does help build the electability case.
The eventual Democratic nominee is highly unlikely to win in places like Idaho or Oklahoma in the general election. But in a primary colored by severe apprehension among Democrats about their nominee’s ability to defeat President Donald Trump — including winning back some states he flipped in 2016 — the stops in more conservative swaths of America serve as a predicate for a candidate’s argument about their ability to win votes across the map.
“We watch very closely how they’re doing in other states, because we want to select somebody that’s going to be viable come November,” Nagle said. “So, one of the things I counsel candidates to do is to makes sure that you inform people in Iowa when you have a positive development in another state.”
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