'Kirsten Gillibrand's second ping pong ball splashed home and she threw both arms skyward while her opponents chugged, celebrating a beer pong victory in the most presidential way possible'
The scene on a rainy Friday night in a bar in Nashua, New Hampshire's second-largest city, follows a pattern for the 52-year-old New York senator. She's trailed better-known rivals in the packed Democratic 2020 presidential field in polling and fundraising, but she's making a case for being the coolest candidate in the race.
"I'm aware it probably comes across as a gimmick, but in real life it came across as genuine," said Shaye Weldon, Gillibrand's beer pong teammate. Spokesman Evan Lukaske said doing things presidential candidates don't typically do comes naturally to Gillibrand — not as a result of paid advice. He noted that many of the non-traditional campaign moments came with little or no press around and got noticed organically via social media.
With 20-plus Democrats vying for the White House, getting noticed is difficult. Still, Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said trying to catch fire doing non-presidential-candidate things isn't as important as building support in the first two states that vote in the primary, Iowa and New Hampshire, because most voters elsewhere won't really begin noticing until those races are over.
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