Former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t have to win the Iowa caucuses to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, a senior adviser to his campaign said Tuesday.

“Do I think we have to win Iowa? No,” the senior adviser told reporters in a briefing, according to Politico.

The Iowa caucuses will mark the first vote of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest and, as such, are seen as a critical test by many campaigns because of their ability to lend candidates early momentum.

Biden’s advisers acknowledged that Iowa will play a “critical” role in the nominating contest. But they said the former vice president’s campaign is also looking past the handful of early primary and caucus states — like Iowa and New Hampshire — to Super Tuesday, when more than a dozen states will hold their nominating votes.

Source: Biden campaign says he doesn’t have to win Iowa | TheHill