Road to the White House 2020 Halley Hobbs

Tuesday night was absolutely amazing. I did poll visibility with all my new friends from the campaign. Then we all went to Nashua Community College to watch the results from the New Hampshire Primary come in. Every time Pete went up in delegates the room went wild. He had an amazing speech and it was a once in a lifetime experience being there cheering on my candidate. This trip has truly been the best ten days of my life.

Tuesday is the day that we had been working towards all week and a half. We woke up before the crack of dawn around 5 AM. We drove all the way to Hopkinton High School which was a polling location that Pete was planning to visit at 7 AM. I’m so glad we were able to make it because I was able to get a selfie with him and he brought us donuts!   Next, we went to Dunkin Donuts and on our way out of town we spotted this cute, covered bridge. JSM wanted to take a picture so we pulled over. While trying to take the picture a nice gentleman pulled over to offer to take the picture for us. I asked him if he was planning on voting and he said “yes”. When I asked who he was voting for he told me he was undecided. So, I told him a little about Pete and I got his phone number and sent him videos of Pete speaking from the rally the night before in Nashua. After getting to the Manchester office we got to work on the phones calling to see if people had a plan for getting to

  Monday morning, I was interviewed by KCRA, which is a news channel in California. They asked me questions about what it was like to work on a presidential campaign. Since there was a Trump rally across the street from our main office on Elm Street in Manchester and roads were closed, we went to a different #teampete location which was actually someone’s home. A Pete supporter who decided very early on that she wanted to offer up the space she has for volunteers to come and get their turf packages, warm up, and eat some good food.                                    Also, I am not sure if it was an endorsement or just an observation of Ashton Kutcher’s, but he tweeted “Looks like in the end Iowa had the same impression of Pete that I did. He’s smart, practical, and interested in serving everyone.” Sounds like an endorsement to me! Monday night I went to Pete’s last GOTV rally before the vote on February 11 th . He did so good. His message was spot on. I was fortunate en

Sunday night was amazing! A small group of us USFSP students who are interested in a possible career in foreign service went to former ambassador to Denmark, Dick Swett’s house for a dinner party. I had never been to a party that was anything like this before. First of all, the food was amazing, especially the chocolate mousse!! But it was so interesting to be able to talk to people from all different backgrounds. Though we are all democrats we are not all for the same candidate. It was eye-opening hearing from people that have so much knowledge and experience in the political field. One of the main takeaways I got from the dialogue was that it is extremely difficult to beat an incumbent up for re-election during times of a good economy.

Sunday both Annie Kuster and Michael J. Fox came back into the office to share with us again why they are on team Pete. I also went canvassing in Manchester for a few hours. Was able to have some pretty good conversations with undecided voters. Rep. Don Beyer from Virginia also stopped by the office to share why he supports Pete Buttigieg for president. So many people had brought us in pizza to eat that we had too much. We did not want it to go to waste so we went out in the cold to offer it to the Trump supporters who had camped outside the SNHU arena the day before the Trump rally there. Following the rules of the road!! Michael J. Fox Rep. Annie Kuster Rep. Don Beyer