Former Iowa Attorney General Bonnie Campbell and two state representatives are among those who announced their endorsements for Joe Biden for president this morning. Campbell, who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016, is praising Biden's work on the Violence Against...
Guest op-ed from Randall A. Renstrom, a political and social psychologist, and associate professor at Central College in Pella If Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s Jimmy Carter, as many political scientists and commentators have suggested, then now is the time...
Cold weather and technical difficulties didn't dampen the spirits of the Monday night crowd of 764 people that showed up for Sen. Bernie Sanders in Des Moines. That’s good, because it was his last Iowa event before he returned today to Washington, D.C., for the...
Iowa state Reps. Chris Hall of Sioux City and Monica Kurth of Davenport, along with state Sen. Rob Hogg of Cedar Rapids, all endorsed Senator Amy Klobuchar in the Iowa Caucus this morning. Hall and Kurth announced their endorsement when they joined other current...
Most polling in Iowa has shown voters placing Sen. Elizabeth Warren as their preferred second choice option in race, an important advantage for her in the realignment phase of caucus night. But with so many other candidates dropping out before Feb. 3, those second...
Eight presidential candidates gathered Monday afternoon in Des Moines for the 2020 Iowa Brown & Black Democratic Presidential Forum, a minority-focused event dating back to 1984. Reporters from Vice News led one-on-one discussions with the candidates as they...
One of the biggest stories out of Donald Trump's presidency is the long process of dismantling President Barack Obama’s legacy. Whether it’s rolling back environmental protections, packing the courts with right-wing ideologues, pulling out of hard-fought...
The big question Iowa Democrats are grappling with as they try to select a nominee is a complicated one: who is "electable?" It's that question of who can beat Trump that has Iowans "paralyzed by fear," deeply afraid that they'll end up picking someone who could go...
A new poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers has Joe Biden back in the front of the pack of Democratic candidates, with now a group of five contenders tightly competing for a win, place or show. Biden comes in at 24% in the latest quarterly survey commissioned by Focus...
Iowa's 1st Congressional District, represented by Democratic Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer, is one of 11 battleground districts getting hit with anti-impeachment television ads paid for by the "dark money" group American Action Network. What makes this $2.5 million...
