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The battle for control of the Iowa Statehouse is getting even more interesting as we're about to reach the finish line. The last finance report put out Friday shows new races coming onto the board late for Democrats, while Republicans have fully pulled out of some...
The mood was joyous Saturday night in Muscatine when word spread the new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showed Republican candidates leading in nearly every federal race. Sen. Joni Ernst's campaign RV was en route from Davenport to Muscatine when the poll's Senate...
In campaign advertisements across many Iowa legislative districts, Democrats are attacking Republicans’ vote to shield nursing homes from liability lawsuits over COVID-19 safety negligence. Nursing home protections became a hot-button topic at the end of the 2020...
In campaign advertisements across many Iowa legislative districts, Democrats are attacking Republicans’ vote to shield nursing homes from liability lawsuits over COVID-19 safety negligence. Nursing home protections became a hot-button topic at the end of the 2020...
Progress Iowa has unveiled a new billboard on Fleur Drive in Des Moines pointing out votes by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett were votes against health care for Iowans. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he would like...
Progress Iowa has unveiled a new billboard on Fleur Drive in Des Moines pointing out votes by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett were votes against health care for Iowans. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he would like...
Progress Iowa has unveiled a new billboard on Fleur Drive in Des Moines pointing out votes by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett were votes against health care for Iowans. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he would like...
On Thursday, as Iowa reported record numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations and its largest number of counties with high positivity rates over 15%, Vice President Mike Pence held a campaign rally in Des Moines, boasting about the Trump administration and Iowa Gov. Kim...
A week out from Election Day, Sen. Joni Ernst spent her first day back from D.C. after the Supreme Court nomination vote traveling across the state line to Nebraska for a large Donald Trump rally in Omaha. Aside from a very quick shout-out from stage from the...
Sen. Joni Ernst returned from Washington, D.C. today for a final week of campaigning on the heels of a Supreme Court confirmation vote that took precedence over delivering a much-needed coronavirus stimulus package. Rather than hold a large event of her own, Ernst...
Two conservative super PACs are running ads against Democratic Senate candidates in Iowa and Kansas using the same people purporting to be concerned about the policy implications of electing Democrats in states they do not live in. In Iowa, Senate Leadership Fund is...
Two conservative super PACs are running ads against Democratic Senate candidates in Iowa and Kansas using the same people purporting to be concerned about the policy implications of electing Democrats in states they do not live in. In Iowa, Senate Leadership Fund is...
Two conservative super PACs are running ads against Democratic Senate candidates in Iowa and Kansas using the same people purporting to be concerned about the policy implications of electing Democrats in states they do not live in. In Iowa, Senate Leadership Fund is...
Sen. Joni Ernst in August released a TV ad focused on the Violence Against Women Act and how her personal experiences with sexual and domestic abuse made the fight to reauthorize the bill’s funding “ very personal." Part of her closing ad talks about ensuring women...
Sen. Joni Ernst in August released a TV ad focused on the Violence Against Women Act and how her personal experiences with sexual and domestic abuse made the fight to reauthorize the bill’s funding “ very personal." Part of her closing ad talks about ensuring women...
It was a Friday afternoon in Maquoketa, and state Rep. Andy McKean was huddled around a piano with a longtime local radio broadcaster in the town’s historic Decker House Hotel for some “good old fashioned campaigning.” Good old fashioned campaigning looks the same as...
Instead of handshakes, there were elbow bumps. Rather than town hall meetings and rallies, small groups gathered on their own turf: on a farm, a union hall, a local restaurant. For Democrats, campaigning amid the coronavirus pandemic means meeting people where they...
Instead of handshakes, there were elbow bumps. Rather than town hall meetings and rallies, small groups gathered on their own turf: on a farm, a union hall, a local restaurant. For Democrats, campaigning amid the coronavirus pandemic means meeting people where they...
While Sen. Joni Ernst and her Republican colleagues on Wednesday touted the Senate's $500 billion coronavirus relief bill, Democrats defended their votes against a proposal they contend comes nowhere close to meeting the needs of Americans as the pandemic continues to...
With only two weeks to go until polls close on Nov. 3, the barrage of TV, radio, newspaper and social media ads is relentless in the final stretch, particularly when Iowa has a hotly contested race that plays a significant role in which party will control the Senate...
With just 17 days until election day, six-figure ad buys have begun popping up across Iowa’s major media markets for Iowa House races — in total, Starting Line found $2.2 million worth of buys on network TV for state legislative races for the House in the first three...
Iowa Democrats nearly swept their Republican opponents in fundraising in the final quarter before Election Day, setting the candidates up for plenty of TV time, mailers and a barrage of social media ads. The U.S. Senate race between first-term senator Joni Ernst and...
Iowa Democrats nearly swept their Republican opponents in fundraising in the final quarter before Election Day, setting the candidates up for plenty of TV time, mailers and a barrage of social media ads. The U.S. Senate race between first-term senator Joni Ernst and...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Thursday she does not believe systemic racism exists in Iowa when pressed to give a direct answer during the final U.S. Senate debate before Election Day. "To be clear, do you believe that systemic racism exists here?" a debate moderator...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Thursday she does not believe systemic racism exists in Iowa when pressed to give a direct answer during the final U.S. Senate debate before Election Day. "To be clear, do you believe that systemic racism exists here?" a debate moderator...
At a campaign rally in Des Moines, President Donald Trump lamented the lack of attention he received for Nobel Peace Prize nominations, seemingly frustrated that coverage of devastating storms in Iowa received more media coverage. "I turn on the television, they...
At a campaign rally in Des Moines, President Donald Trump lamented the lack of attention he received for Nobel Peace Prize nominations, seemingly frustrated that coverage of devastating storms in Iowa received more media coverage. "I turn on the television, they...
At a campaign rally in Des Moines, President Donald Trump lamented the lack of attention he received for Nobel Peace Prize nominations, seemingly frustrated that coverage of devastating storms in Iowa received more media coverage. "I turn on the television, they...
New polls surveying Iowa and the Midwest find voters are more likely to side with Joe Biden than President Trump on issues of the day, including the Supreme Court, health care and struggles in rural America. On the Supreme Court, a Public Policy Polling survey of 741...
New polls surveying Iowa and the Midwest find voters are more likely to side with Joe Biden than President Trump on issues of the day, including the Supreme Court, health care and struggles in rural America. On the Supreme Court, a Public Policy Polling survey of 741...
