Presidential politics ramps up as primaries near
County Mayor Lee Harris (center) and State Sen. Raumesh Akbari (center left) talks to a group of Democrats at the Mahogany Restaurant on Feb. 15, 2020, during a Biden campaign rally to help boost early voter turnout. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Several of the Democratic presidential campaigns started looking for Memphis votes on the first weekend of the early voting period with local politicos leading the charge to the March 3 election day.
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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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