campaigning

The pandemic forced candidates to think differently about campaigning this election season. The Campaign School at Yale aims to give women the skills they need to run an effective campaign.

There’s not much the pandemic hasn’t changed, including politics. Politicians can’t kiss babies or shake hands so how do candidates for state representative campaign in a pandemic?   Pandemic or no pandemic candidates for state House grabbed their masks and hit the streets to talk to voters in their district one door at a time.   “Doors still happen, but when...

Local candidates across Connecticut are learning to navigate the campaign trail during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For the last five months, aspiring politicians across the country have been calling audibles on their original campaign plans and replacing them with “the new normal” as they adjust to campaigning amid coronavirus.

Coronavirus changed everything about the American landscape, including politics. It’s forced candidates across the country to call audibles on their original campaign plans as they adjust to campaigning amid coronavirus. Those candidates include Jackie Gordon and Andrew Garbarino, who are battling to represent New York’s second congressional district.

Candidates across Connecticut are having to find new ones to get creative and campaign for the primary election.

Campaigning in a normal year is hard enough, but campaigning for state office in the middle of a pandemic has created all sorts of issues for candidates. Those hurdles are even harder for candidates still trying to get on the ballot. Going out and asking someone to sign a piece of paper isn’t as easy as it used to...