Democrats make final Eastern Iowa sprint before caucuses

[TexasTowelie]

By Brian Morelli


CORALVILLE — As the window closes on the 2020 caucus season in Iowa, candidates including Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer on Sunday crisscrossed Eastern Iowa, making last-minute pitches to voters with a number of undecideds still looking for cues to make up their minds.

Count Kim and Grant Keiser, of Cedar Rapids, among them. Trying to decide, they caught three candidates each over the past two days. Seeing the presidential hopefuls in person — how they present themselves, how they interact with ordinary people and “what they’re about” — has helped firm up their preferences, they said.

“I decided to support Amy after seeing and hearing her in person,” Kim Keiser, 46, said from a Steyer event in Coralville, not long after Klobuchar, the Minnesota senator, spoke earlier in the day.

Hearing Steyer, a San Fransisco businessman, made her like him more, but it also reassured her support for Klobuchar. She struggled to see how the billionaire Steyer could relate with everyday Americans.

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(Cedar Rapids Gazette)