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Clinton's Iowa Strategy

Al Madrigal
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(c) 2015 Steffen Schmidt
Steffen Schmidt with Al Madrigal

Clinton broke her media silence earlier this week when she took questions from reporters in a bicycle shop in Cedar Falls. Though she's had a consistent presence in Iowa, analyst Steffen Schimdt says the campaign has yet to truly kick off.

"There is no Clinton campaign. What there is is these little weird visits to New Hampshire and Iowa, meeting with people in bicycle shops with very carefully hand-picked crowds of individuals who are favorable to Hillary Clinton. These are not open events, they're not big events, she's not rolling out big themes."

On this Politics Day edition of River to River, host Ben Kieffer talks with Steffen Schmidt of Iowa State University and Hans Hassell of Cornell College about Clinton, the Lincoln Dinner held in Des Moines, and Schmidt's appearance on the Daily Show.

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River