No-party voters, GOP defectors could help Democrats, Harkin says

DES MOINES — No-party voters and Republicans disenfranchised with their presidential candidate can help Democrats deliver Iowa for Hillary Clinton, Tom Harkin said Saturday.

Iowa Democrats’ two favorite Toms — former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin and former governor and current U.S. AG secretary Tom Vilsack — addressed a few dozen Democratic campaign staff and volunteers in downtown Des Moines, just before the group was trained up and shipped out to spend this autumn Saturday working to get Democrats elected.

Harkin and Vilsack both stressed the important of maximizing voter turnout because, they said, the presidential election both nationally and in Iowa will be close.

“Sometimes I think people think that these elections are over, or that their vote doesn’t matter,” Vilsack told reporters after addressing the campaign workers. “In this particular election, as close as it’s going to be in this state, as close as it’s going to be in this country, every single vote matters.”

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