Observations from a presidential campaign stop
Dr. Jill Biden talks with supporters during her Memphis campaign stop to seek support for her husband in the March 3 Super Tuesday Tennessee primary. The event was held at Loflin Yard near Downtown on Sunday, March 1, 2020. (Mike Kerr/Special to Daily Memphian)
Bill Dries
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.
Presidential campaign culture has some rules and habits that change over time and as technology changes. Here are a few observed locally in the campaign to Super Tuesday.
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