The candidates are seeking any advantage that can boost their delegate numbers in a state where polls show a tight race.
DES MOINES — Allies of former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders have spoken with officials in entrepreneur Andrew Yang's presidential campaign about a deal for cooperation from their supporters on caucus night, according to two people familiar with the talks.
Biden’s team reached out to Yang’s campaign initially, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss strategy. There was a later conversation in which Sanders’s and Yang’s teams spoke about a possible deal, according to a person familiar with those discussions.
The conversations stemmed from the system Iowa Democrats use for the more than 1,600 caucuses that will be held Monday night. In each, Democrats gather in clusters depending on which candidate they support.Candidates who do not earn support from at least 15 percent of those in the room are not considered viable, and they do not earn delegates. Their backers are free to leave, or to align with another candidate.
Biden and Sanders have been locked at the top of recent Iowa and national polling. For them and for other candidates, even minimal growth in their levels of support could be meaningful in the final apportioning of candidates. In a breakfast hosted by Bloomberg News, Yang confirmed his campaign had been approached by more than one competitor, but declined to say which ones. When pressed on where he thought his supporters would go, he was more forthright.“I think many of my supporters would naturally head to Bernie,” Yang said. “I think that Bernie and I do have a lot of overlapping support.”“We’ve been contacted by a number of campaigns,” Weaver said.
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