NEWTON, Iowa -- Lois Grier knows she has to make a decision about the Democratic primary soon.She and her husband, Ted, traveled from their home in Otley to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday and hoped to see Pete Buttigieg, too. But although Lois Grier, 62, cares about issues like health care, what
She and her husband, Ted, traveled from their home in Otley to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday and hoped to see Pete Buttigieg, too. But although Lois Grier, 62, cares about issues like health care, what she is yearning to find above all is a White House hopeful she believes can defeat President Donald Trump.“It’s important to narrow it in to somebody that can beat Trump,” she said, adding that she would be watching the debate on Tuesday in Des Moines closely for telltale signs.
The current level of indecisiveness is striking, even for Iowans known to make up their minds late. At the same point in 2016, only 14% were undecided in the Des Moines Register poll, for a race that featured just two top contenders, Sanders and Hillary Clinton. In 2004, a more comparable election year when the field was nearly as crowded as it is today, 70% had not picked a candidate a month from the caucuses.
In interviews at campaign events in recent days, many Iowans were still wavering, often listing several candidates they liked but also reasons that each candidate could be perceived as weak. They worried Joe Biden might be too old, thought Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, might be too inexperienced and were apprehensive that Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren could be too far left.
Complicating matters, several of the state’s best-known Democratic officials have withheld their endorsements, opting instead to see how the race unfolds on its own. Those who have not backed a candidate so far include Rep. Cindy Axne, who flipped her district in 2018; Rob Sand, the state auditor; and J.D. Scholten, who is running for Congress in Rep. Steve King’s district.
Randy Farnum, 49, an elementary school principal from Dubuque, said that he was trying to decide between Sanders and Warren and that it would come down to their “final plans.”
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