Surrogates blazing trail for Democratic presidential contenders
Helena Powell (left) and her 8-month son Herlio attend the grand opening of Mike Bloomberg’s Memphis campaign headquarters at 516 Tennessee St. Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The campaigns of several Democratic presidential contenders are looking for votes in the state's largest base of blue voters. But so far, it has been surrogates speaking to Memphians.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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