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And Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenSanders leads in Iowa ahead of caucus: poll The Memo: Trump threatens to overshadow Democrats in Iowa Iowa poll snafu leaves Democrats guessing on eve of caucuses MORE (D-Mass.) took questions from an overflow room of supporters before she met the voters lucky enough to get tickets into a rally she held in tiny Indianola, a dozen miles south of the state capital.“The bad news is there’s no more room inside,” Warren told the overflow crowd. Any candidate who finishes with less than 15 percent support in any one of the state’s 1,700 precincts is deemed unviable, and thus wins no delegates in that precinct.The candidates have pursued different strategies meant to win enough of the vote to begin adding to their delegate totals: Warren has focused primarily on the seven largest counties in the state, where about three-quarters of Iowa’s delegates are awarded, while Buttigieg, Biden, Klobuchar and longer shots like entrepreneur Andrew YangAndrew YangKen Bone endorses Andrew Yang for president: '#YangGang all the way!' Sanders leads in Iowa ahead of caucus: poll Bloomberg dismisses Trump claims: He 'lies about everything' MORE have spent more time in rural areas that still carry a significant share of the delegate vote.Jeff Link, a longtime Democratic strategist in Iowa who runs a nonprofit aimed at connecting his party’s politicians with rural voters, said ignoring rural counties would harm a candidate both in the run-up to the caucuses and in the general election. It’s competitive out there, and this is not his strength of a state, given South Carolina and where he is there,” said Rep. Tim RyanTimothy (Tim) RyanBiden lines up high-profile surrogates to campaign in Iowa Office of Technology Assessment: It's time for a second coming Key moments in the 2020 Democratic presidential race so far MORE (D-Ohio), a former presidential candidate himself who endorsed Biden after leaving the race.Sanders, leading in most recent polls, has leaned into his chances of capturing a state he almost won in 2016, during an insurgent campaign that nearly toppled former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and that now concerns more centrist and establishment Democrats across the country.“To defeat Donald Trump, who will be a very formidable opponent for a number of reasons, we need to have the largest voter turnout in American history.