Analysis: For a while, it looked like the California senator was ignoring the caucuses. But now she’s in a surprising third place — and trying for more
STORM LAKE, Iowa —Surrounded by reporters at a family taqueria Friday afternoon in one of this state’s least-white places, Kamala Harris ordered three tacos and a quesadilla, then turned to her campaign chair-sister, Maya, to ask if she wanted anything to eat. A little while later, Harris sent an aide to the front of her bus to check if there were chips. There weren’t. No matter. She wandered over to a big pile of burritos, picked one up, and inhaled it.She’s also behind.
“She has work to do sharpening her argument for herself and it needs to get sharper to meet the potential of her campaign,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a former Obama adviser and co-host of “Pod Save America.” “But,” he added, there’s time: “Obama didn't nail his message until the Iowa dinner in November” of 2007.
And she wants to sharpen a central characteristic of her message that’s being overshadowed by Biden’s “battle for the soul of this nation” and Warren’s plan-centric calls for “big, structural change.” At a bar in Sioux City and a classroom in Fort Dodge, Harris leaned into what she calls her “3 a.m.
The range of inquires she’s fielding here can be jarring. Kendra Breitsprecher, a teacher for three decades who started her own business, said she’s been busy asking the Democrats how they’ll respond when Trump mocks them during a debate.Breitsprecher stepped back. She looked surprised. “That was a good answer,” she said. “A lot of people would say, ‘I’ll meet him punch for punch.’ But I’m tired of that. I want to hear Michelle Obama: ‘When they go low, we go high.
At Matt Russell and Pat Standley’s Coyote Run Farm in Lacona, Harris wanted to hear about the future of farming and how to address climate change. She toured the farm in boots, stopping off for a conversation with Russell and a young farming family. They talked about trade, rural development and the farm bill.They all laughed, her nervously. She quickly corrected herself.
Across Iowa, I talked with dozens of Democratic officials, activists and caucus-goers who are also closely eyeing the race and thinking that the field needs to shrink soon.
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