The Comeback Kid can’t be kept on the sidelines for long. After finally stepping out of the shadows earlier this month to begin stumping for his wife, Bill Clinton is reportedly seizing a larger role in advising Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign as he grows increasingly worried that she isn’t focusing enough on the dozens of primary states that vote in March.

News of Bill’s involvement in Clinton’s camp reflects a very real concern: what once seemed an easy path to victory for the former secretary of state has now turned treacherous with the soaring popularity of Bernie Sanders, whose poll numbers in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire threaten to stunt her momentum. According to Politico, Bill has been urging the campaign to begin diverting resources outside Iowa and New Hampshire, reportedly calling her campaign manager, Robert Mook, “almost daily” to persuade him to send more staff to the states voting in March. The resistance, it seems, comes from Hillary’s team’s overwhelming desire to not repeat the mistakes of 2008, when an unknown post-racial upstart came out of nowhere to win Iowa, pushing her to a shocking third place.

But several sources tell Politico they are convinced, along with Bill, that this is the wrong way to play the primary game. While Iowa and New Hampshire are whiter than the Oscars, Clinton is expected to outperform Sanders in states with larger minority populations like Florida, South Carolina, and Texas—which also happen to have large numbers of delegates.

There are still several ways for this to play out strategically: the Clinton campaign has already sent at least one paid staffer to the late-voting states, has started to organize voter outreach networks, and likely plans to move the bulk of its paid staff in Iowa and New Hampshire to these states after the primaries. But Bill urging the campaign to focus more on the late-voting states indicates that, if Iowa and New Hampshire aren’t lost causes, they are at the very least drawing too much attention away from their long-term goals.