Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has hired someone to oversee her campaign in Arizona, making her the first top-tier candidate from her party to do so.

Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, named Andrea Nemecek as her state director. She previously worked on campaigns for former President Barack Obama and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

In 2018, Nemecek helped train about 80 field workers in Arizona for what proved to be the Democrats' best election cycle in the state in decades. Before joining Warren's 2020 campaign, she was the Iowa organizing director for former presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.

The hire, along with a dozen others in Arizona, comes as Warren is set to open campaign offices in Phoenix and Tucson.
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