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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Saturday visited The Livery Deli in Boone, Iowa, a town of about 12,500 people. In the early days of her presidential campaign, she has emphasized her familiarity with rural America.CreditCreditRachel Mummey for The New York Times
By Shane Goldmacher
Jan. 19, 2019
BOONE, Iowa — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand represents one of the biggest and bluest states in America, anchored by the nation’s largest urban metropolis. But as she made her way across snowy Iowa during her first visit as a presidential candidate, Ms. Gillibrand put far more emphasis on her upstate New York roots, bipartisanship and small-town political ancestry.
She talked about her love of RVs and her family vacation last summer to see a Nascar race — and suggested she could make an RV trip in Iowa this year. She spoke of her faith and finding common ground with Republicans. And she harked back repeatedly to her first run for Congress, in 2006, when she ousted a Republican incumbent in a seat that her pollster warned she couldn’t win because there were “more cows than Democrats.”
“I grew up in upstate New York, a community not unlike this one,” Ms. Gillibrand said as she introduced herself at a house party in Sioux City on Friday evening. Of her first race, she said, “It was a two-to-one Republican district, a lot like the district we’re in today.”
The next morning, inside a cafe in Boone, she told the dozen or so people there: “I really appreciate being in a rural place. I’m from a rural place. I grew up in a rural place. I represented a rural place for Congress.”
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At a political moment when many Democratic voters are desperate to find a winner who can beat President Trump, Ms. Gillibrand’s emphasis on her past representing a conservative House seat seemed an effort to ensure she is not pigeonholed as just another blue-state Democrat, or someone who does not understand rural America.
To that end, Ms. Gillibrand has placed her campaign headquarters in Troy, N.Y., near where she grew up and in her old House district but relatively far from an urban center (though a short drive to New Hampshire). She made her first campaign appearance at a diner there, too.
“The thing she really reiterates is she isn’t from New York. She’s from upstate,” said J.D. Scholten, a Democrat who lost his 2018 House race to Representative Steve King, the Iowa Republican who has come under fire for his remarks on white supremacy and white nationalism.
Mr. Scholten, who attended two of Ms. Gillibrand’s events, said the problem with the current Democratic Party is that it’s “more and more a Whole Foods party and we’re in a Dollar General district.”
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“She’s able to have that experience,” Mr. Scholten said of Ms. Gillibrand, “and that’s important for Democrats.”
The challenge for Ms. Gillibrand is that the candidate she was, ideologically, in 2006 to win that upstate district is no longer the candidate she is now. In the House, she had an A-rating from the National Rifle Association; now she has an F. Her stances on immigration have flipped, as well. She has said she is now embarrassed by her old positions.
Ms. Gillibrand, who appears especially comfortable meeting voters in small and more intimate settings, was generally well-received on her first Iowa trip, which included a mix of coffee-shop stops and business tours, a house party and a speech to the Women’s March at the State Capitol.
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“If we change who’s at the decision-making table, we change everything,” she told the crowd at the march. (Ms. Gillibrand also said there was “no room for anti-Semitism” in the Women’s March movement, a reference to the controversy involving one of the original march organizers that has caused fewer national Democrats to attend this year.)
Ms. Gillibrand at a brewery in Des Moines on Saturday. Her views on gun control and immigration have changed since she was elected as a U.S. Representative in rural New York.
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