Pete Buttigieg flexes campaign muscle in Iowa, plans to open 20 offices in 20 days, have nearly 100

Pete Buttigieg flexes campaign muscle in Iowa, plans to open 20 offices in 20 days, have nearly 100 Iowa staff


Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is flexing his campaign muscle in Iowa, with plans to expand field offices and hire more staff to organize around the state.

Buttigieg will open 20 offices in Iowa in 20 days, campaign officials told the Des Moines Register. He’ll also have 98 paid staffers on the ground by the end of the first week of September, with additional hires expected.

The moves represent a major ramp up in the first-in-the-nation caucus state for the South Bend, Indiana, mayor, who currently has one office in Des Moines. He had 62 staffers in Iowa as of mid-August.

"In order to go the distance and win this election, we need to build the relationships and organization on the ground to reach Iowans where they are," Buttigieg told the Register in a statement. "And that's exactly what we're building in Iowa."

Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/09/02/iowa-caucus-democrat-mayor-pete-buttigieg-field-offices-additional-hires-staff-organization-polling/2135561001/