Photo of Iowa farmer Al Giese after a Steve King town hall. The White House was hashing out the details late this week of a possible deal to repair some of the damage the renewable fuels industry sustained this year from President Donald Trump's earlier decisions...
Elizabeth Warren's campaign is rolling out their first big batch of endorsers following last night's Democratic debate. Fifteen well-known Iowa activists are publicly throwing their support behind Warren for the Iowa Caucus, hailing from cities and small towns...
It may be getting crowded in the Iowa Starting Line office these days, but we are very excited to share with you our second major expansion of the year. With these new additions, Starting Line now has more full-time political reporters than any other news outlet in...
The Democratic presidential candidates often like to rail against Facebook and conservative, corporate-owned news outlets. Their campaign spending, however, rarely matches their words on the campaign trail. Candidates have dumped millions upon millions of dollars...
Pete Buttigieg has his first notable public endorsement for the Iowa Caucus: Jean Lloyd-Jones of Iowa City, a former legislator and the first woman who was nominated by a major Iowa party for a U.S. Senate race. "I support Mayor Pete because he has the brains, the...
Joe Biden is ramping up his Iowa ground game as the caucus race enters the final months and as his top Democratic opponents narrow the gap in the polls. The Biden campaign plans to have about 110 total staff in Iowa by the end of September, over 80 of which will be...
A featured guest at one of Elizabeth Warren's very first campaign events in Iowa is now endorsing the senator in the Iowa Caucus. Amber Gustafson, the former Iowa chapter leader of Moms Demand Action, made her choice public today. "Elizabeth Warren doesn’t just...
As the old Iowa Caucus saying goes, once the Pumpkin Spice Lattes go on sale, it's decision time for Iowans. Or, wait, is the traditional dividing line Labor Day? Well, anyway, the point is that we've clearly moved into a new, more serious phase of the presidential...
As the Democratic primary shifts into high gear for the final months before the early states start voting, we can expect candidates to draw sharper contrasts with one another and some attack ads to start airing. Just don't be surprised if you don't see much of that...
In tweets yesterday, President Donald Trump railed against former reality TV stars he hired and fired from his administration, called former FBI Director James Comey a "CROOKED COP," congratulated Sean Hannity on his great "shoe" (he later corrected it to "show")...
