Bernie Sanders hires Elizabeth Warren 'draft' director for progressive campaign

Source: The Guardian

Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president isn’t just trying to harness the lingering progressive energy behind the failed attempt to draft his fellow liberal senator Elizabeth Warren.

Now they’re hiring the minds behind her grassroots movement, too.

The Guardian has learned that the Sanders campaign has hired Blair Lawton, who served as field director in Iowa for the Run Warren Run effort, which announced it was shutting down last week.

Lawton will serve as political director for Sanders in Iowa, the early primary state where Sanders and Hillary Clinton will both visit this weekend. He previously worked as a regional field director in Iowa for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, then managed Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in Alaska in 2014.


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