202 The Daily 202: Hillary Clinton is winning with a hyper-local strategy
Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton made the race in Michigan all about the lead in Flints water, her opposition to the states controversial emergency manager law and her opponents vote against a bailout for the auto industry.
The crisis in Flint had been going on for some time before the former secretary of state sent emissaries to visit, secured the endorsement of the citys mayor and then insisted on having a debate in the city, 70 miles northwest of Detroit.
It is part of a pattern for Clinton. Shes approached every primary more like it was a Senate race than a presidential election by identifying a local issue that would play to her advantage and then championing it.
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Its not just infrastructure. Clinton has campaigned against voter ID laws in Alabama and Missouri, a religious freedom bill in Arkansas, as well as right to work legislation in Illinois, Missouri and West Virginia. She supported a settlement that New Orleans's Democratic mayor negotiated with FEMA and lauded a student loan refinancing program unveiled by Minnesota's Democratic governor.