Throughout the weekend, a slate of candidates are stopping in Iowa, the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
A non-stop parade of presidential contenders have already made dozens of trips to the early-nominating states, and this weekend, a number of them are poised to continue crisscrossing Iowa and New Hampshire, celebrating Memorial Day with some of the first voters of the 2020 race.
Sanders is holding a series of Ben & Jerry ice cream socials throughout the afternoon in Merrimack, Belknap and Strafford counties; Swalwell heads to Grafton and Carroll counties for meet-and-greets; Delaney joins a Memorial Day parade and a VFW barbecue in Sullivan County before heading to Rockingham County for a Memorial Day wreath laying; and Weld, who will also be in Rockingham County, will attend a Memorial Day parade and a gathering to honor a Vietnam veteran.
Nearly a year before the 2018 midterms, the DCCC expected 30 or 40 of its candidates to be veterans, a major uptick from recent cycles. At that time, only four female veterans served in Congress, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Gabbard, and Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz.
When asked what Memorial Day means to him, he said,"Personally, what I think about is the people I served with who did not make it home. And as one of those who fortunately did make it home, I think a lot about how I can try to live a life that is worthy of the sacrifices of people from the folks I was down range with to people generations and even centuries before me. All of whom paid the ultimate price in order to make the life and the security that we know here in America possible.
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