Politico: “For months, top-tier Democrats largely adhered to their pre-laid plans, ignoring the noise around them. They dismissed early polls as folly and labored to avoid making campaign calculations based on a still-emerging and fluid field of competitors.”
“But as the primary landscape has settled, a crop of candidates who aren’t seeing the trajectory they envisioned, or find themselves in danger of falling back in public opinion polls, are beginning to recalibrate.”

