Analysis: A state-by-state guide to what to watch in tonight's primaries
Marie Newman greets a voter Sunday with an elbow bump.
Newman, who is challenging Rep. Daniel Lipinski in today's Democratic primary, had been running for Congress for the better part of three years. In 2018, she came fewer than 2,200 votes away from ousting the incumbent, who is one of the last antiabortion Democrats in the House. In 2019, she got a good head start, lining up new endorsements and building a sophisticated, sprawling turnout operation.
Both Clark and Newman had big plans for the campaign's final weekend. Newman was supposed to rally with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, her best-known supporter; the campaign had to settle for a “There was one very cute elderly couple, just the other day,” she recalled. “They yelled through their screen door: ‘We love you, Marie! We just don't want to touch you!' People are rightfully scared.”
Lipinski's campaign was keeping canvassers on the street, while Newman's wasn't. The final weekend was about triage, not momentum, and it was hard for some campaigners to get over that. The Clark campaign, in particular, had been a major project for Democratic Socialists of America, which was on a tear in Chicago, winning a bloc of seats on the city council in last year's elections.
On Sunday, Newman stopped by an early-vote location at a police precinct, where turnout was tracking close to 2016 levels; not bad, but less than everyone had wanted. When one voter went in for a handshake, Newman offered her elbow for a bump. Some voters, coming out of the polls, said that they were simply trying to get the election over with. Some said they had factored in the quarantine and the risk of problems or lines if they voted Tuesday.
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