Campaigns are starting earlier than ever — due, in part, to early voting
NPRCampaigns are starting earlier than ever — due, in part, to early voting Not so many years ago, it was traditional for political pros to say the presidential campaign begins after Labor Day. Strategists like Mike Duncan, for example, who's worked on various campaigns, including for Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, he was pretty incensed about this idea. That's especially true for Republicans because a big portion of Trump's base are white voters without college degrees, and they're among the least likely to vote. It's a big piece of why they wanted this debate before the conventions, because there's still this sort of sense out there among a lot of Democratic voters and Republican voters, frankly, that maybe this isn't quite the field that you're seeing, maybe it isn't Biden versus Trump.