Clinton backers open Little Rock office

While poor weather grounded the flight of the event's keynote speaker, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, state Democratic officials turned out in the rain Saturday morning to open Hillary Clinton's Arkansas campaign headquarters at a Little Rock shopping center.

The windows of a former recording studio in the back of the Tanglewood Shopping Center on Cantrell Road were plastered with campaign signs, and under the building's awning organizers sold "Heck Yeah Hillary" T-shirts as the crowd crunched to fit under a canopy.

The office had previously been used in Little Rock Democrat Clarke Tucker's successful campaign for the state House of Representatives in 2014.

Democrats, including former U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, framed the headquarters as a starting point through which they hoped to turn around the slide in the party's support across the state.

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