Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign is sending at least 150 staffers from its Brooklyn campaign headquarters to help out its efforts in New Hampshire, BuzzFeed News reported Tuesday.
The group includes as much as half of the staff that works out of the Brooklyn Heights office and comes from various departments.
{mosads}Some staffers have already started the five-hour trip to New Hampshire. The campaign, which has had this planned for months, is sending such a large force because of the Granite State’s proximity to New York.
Smaller groups have been sent to South Carolina and Nevada, which will vote later this month.
Rival Bernie Sanders leads big in New Hampshire with 55.8 percent support, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls. Clinton follows with 37.7 percent.
Sanders is also having staffers from his headquarters in Burlington, Vt., help out with campaign efforts in New Hampshire but has a much smaller group than Clinton’s.
Clinton said in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Tuesday that she will do everything she can to increase support in New Hampshire before the primary.
“I’m going to be there day after day between now and Tuesday,” Clinton said. “I respect this primary process. I know how seriously people take it. And I just want them to understand what I’m offering, what I believe we can do.”