DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – To judge them solely by their travels over the past month, you might think Jeb Bush has already plunged into the general election and Hillary Rodham Clinton has a serious fight on her hands for the Democratic nomination.
That’s the opposite of the conventional thinking: that he’s got a real primary race to settle first and she doesn’t.
Bush has been stopping in states far from the early testing grounds of Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s made recent appearances in Ohio, North Carolina and Colorado, all crucial general election states.
But Clinton is narrowly focusing on the first four states in the primaries, suggesting she wants voters to know she’s taking nothing for granted despite her dominant position in the party.