“I guess this is what democracy sounds like!” Elizabeth Warren said over chants.
The parade of speakers was as much of a sensory blur as the hours-long pre-event festivities that overtook both sides of 1st Avenue East on Sunday morning. Amid the colored placards, chants, music, and marching — part of the so-called “sign wars” that often precede major party gatherings here during a presidential election — it was hard for any candidate to stand out.
“I guess this is what democracy sounds like!” Warren told reporters over the sound of supporters, all yelling in unison, “It’s time for a woman in the White House!” On the streets of Cedar Rapids, Sen. Cory Booker’s backers, who had marked the sidewalk in colored chalk with messages like “Lead With Love” and “Brick by Brick,” had chants of, “Iowa, I see you! Iowa, I love you!” Warren’s fans sang Dolly Parton’s. Beto O’Rourke brought a taco truck, offering free breakfast tacos to other candidates’ staff. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign had draped a banner with her face on it over the side of a minivan, where a man tapped on a steel drum.
Everywhere, there were young men flipping giant “DELANEY” signs in support of John Delaney, a long-shot former representative who has been polling near the bottom of the field. Delaney’s campaign, it turned out, had paid professional sign-spinners to fly in from DC, one of the spinners said.Troy Price, the Iowa party chair, said he spent weeks planning to accommodate 19 speakers. “We’ve got timers. We’ve got music queued up to play people off. We want to keep it tight,” he said.
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