Phil Kim (@philkimtweets), Nevada State Director for the Cory Booker campaign joins us for Part 3 of our Early State Mini-Series to talk about the unique challenges of campaigning in a union-heavy, service-oriented economy like Nevada, and what it means to be an Asian American serving at the state director level of a presidential campaign. Listen to other episodes of this series on: Iowa, New Hampshire, Caucus 101 Subscribe: Apple Podcast| Castbox| Spotify| Stitcher| Google Play| TuneIn Support Us on PATREON Transcript (lightly edited for clarity) [00:00:42] Kevin: Today we are going to talk about Nevada as part of this special Mini-Series we’re  doing on the Model Majority Podcasts to profile the four early primary states in the Democratic Primary from the perspective of Asian American staffers working on a presidential campaign. And I am thrilled to welcome back Phil Kim to the podcast, who is serving as the Nevada State Director for Senator Cory Booker’s campaign. [00:01:10] For those of you who are curious about Phil’s background, go listen to episode 69 of the podcast when he was working at the Democratic National Committee. Phil, welcome back to the Model Majority Podcast today.  [00:01:23] Phil: Kevin, thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. And also shout out to you for continuing to do this work. And giving a platform to all Asian American political folks and have a voice in this process. So I appreciate you.  [00:01:33] Kevin: Thank you. Thank you so much for that. So to get things started, before we dive into the specifics of Nevada and campaigning there, I love to hear the backstory of how you got on the Cory Booker campaign leading its effort in the silver state. [00:01:49] Phil: Yeah. So quick backstory. Before I joined the Cory Booker campaign, I was serving as the Asian American outreach director at the DNC, and you know, had a pretty good view of all the different candidates who were launching the campaigns and talking about how they want to mobilize different people to get involved with the process. [00:02:08] Before I was at the DNC, I was in Nevada. And one of the things that gave me a lot of fun memories was learning from the community leaders here, who really took me in as one of their own, mentored me, brought me up. And so it was always something I knew I wanted to do, whether I was at the DNC or our life after that, to come back, support the community, uplift them, and see what I can do with whatever platform or role that I had out to, to be a part of that. [00:02:33] So when I was  looking, surveying the field a little bit, Cory was for me kind of the obvious choice. And the reason I say that is because one, when he launched his campaign, he obviously had a very diverse, a diverse kind of coalition of AAPI voters in ...