With his long-shot 2020 campaign in need of a boost, Deval Patrick privately wooed a handful of influential figures, including some fellow Obama allies. gdebenedetti reports
Deval Patrick fields questions during a meeting of the Polk County Democrats on November 18, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Deval Patrick has hardly had the smoothest public entry to the Democratic presidential primary since he jumped in earlier this month, but behind the scenes he’s started trying to win over some of his party’s power players in a bid to fund and energize his long-shot campaign.
Patrick, a political moderate and longtime friend of the former president, had met most of the attendees before, but he used the one-hour get-together to recount his record on issues like education, infrastructure, clean energy, and Massachusetts’ economy, and to explain his vision for the long-shot campaign, which he launched in mid-November after initially passing on a run in late 2018.
The early days of Patrick 2020 have involved a barrage of public appearances as he sprints to introduce himself to as many Americans as possible before voting begins. But Patrick, who left office in 2015 and until earlier this month worked at private-equity giant Bain Capital, has also been trying to reconnect with donors and influential activists who’d indicated at least some willingness to support or consider him when he first looked at running last year.
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