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Senator Elizabeth Warren was speaking in Cedar Rapids when the new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll was released Saturday evening. Nearly 25 percent of Iowa caucus goers favored Pete Buttigieg in the poll. Pollster J. Ann Selzer said the mayor of South Bend...
Of all the states in the country, only two permanently bar felons from voting and require them to petition the state to restore that right. One is Kentucky, the other is Iowa. Earlier in 2019, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds joined the effort to change Iowa law by...
It is past time for more candidates to drop out of the presidential primary. Seventy-nine days out from the Iowa Caucus, we still have 17 Democratic contenders in the race. The total number started going in the wrong direction this past week with Deval Patrick's...
A recently-released survey from PPP Polls has good news for Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer in the lead-off caucus state. Both are moving up in the still-crowded Democratic primary, with Klobuchar polling at 9% and Steyer at 6% in Iowa in this survey. Klobuchar's new...
On the campaign trail, U.S. Senate candidate Eddie Mauro hits many of the issues important to Democratic voters like health care, gun safety and climate change. But beyond his stump speech, it is apparent Mauro has a deeper connection to these issues than political...
We're starting to enter peak advertising season here in the Iowa Caucus, as messages from presidential candidates compete with holiday ads on the TV screens. Starting Line counts eight different Democratic contenders with spots on Iowa TV this week, most of which are...
Latinx candidates made history last week in city council elections and school board races across Iowa. We wanted to know about some of the challenges they faced running for office and what comes next in their political careers. To find out, we interviewed Rob Barron,...
This past weekend saw what will likely be the largest caucus events for an individual candidate until the last several weeks before February 3. Bernie Sanders turned out crowds of over 2,000 at each of his events with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Council Bluffs, Des...
Sen. Bernie Sanders has his sights set on being the 2020 election’s "climate candidate," and Green New Deal lead sponsor, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is helping him get there. After the Vermont Senator trailed behind competitors Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South...
The commit-to-caucus cards starting piling up at Pete Buttigieg events across northern Iowa this past week, as caucus-goers saw the candidate at very well-attended events in rural counties. Now, a few days after his bus tour and performance at the Liberty and Justice...
Photo: Julian Castro tests out the beds at a supportive housing center before his Liberty and Justice event speech. Away from the rain and a slew of competitors' supporters last Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro toured affordable housing units at...
Guest op-ed from Adam Kenworthy, a Des Moines attorney. All pivotal movements in our nation’s history draw from the principles enshrined in the very first line of our founding document that reads: “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect...
Guest op-ed from Dennis Cole of Shenandoah, Iowa, past Page County Democrats chair. As Iowans, we have a very important responsibility in our democracy. The first-in-the-nation caucuses bestow upon us a great opportunity to lead America in the political and moral...
Harold Schaitberger is the international president of a 320,000-person union and leads the ninth-largest federal union PAC in the United States, but he has one thing on his mind come caucus night: where to put the Joe Biden posters so voters can easily see them as...
Photo: Matt Blake and Bridget Montgomery celebrate their election to the Urbandale City Council. Democrats' efforts to turn the Des Moines metro's suburbs blue made a big leap forward last night with the election of many progressive candidates to city councils and...
A 33-year-old from Kansas City hitched a ride from a friend in St. Louis to stand in the cold and rain for more than four hours to meet Andrew Yang and experience Yangapalooza this past Friday. Yangapalooza featured several hours of live entertainment from Chef Zoot,...
On part two of this special episode, we have the second half of Democratic presidential candidate speeches from Friday's Liberty and Justice Celebration at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Here are some time-markers to skip to particular speeches if you don't want...
On part one of this special episode, we have the first half of Democratic presidential candidate speeches from Friday's Liberty and Justice Celebration at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Here are some time-markers to skip to particular speeches if you don't want...
This weekend, at presidential candidate events and forums throughout central Iowa, economic injustice against communities of color was a reoccurring theme — including discussion of homeownership disparities between black and brown families and their white neighbors....
U.S. Senate candidate Michael Franken, whose military career took him around the world and to Washington, D.C., has found his background handy in helping fund his race for the Democratic nomination. Franken, a retired Navy admiral, was the last of the four candidates...
Congresswoman Katie Porter, a rising star in the Democratic Party and House of Representatives, returned to her home state of Iowa this weekend to support her mentor, Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Porter was born in Fort Dodge and grew up in Iowa before becoming a...
Thirteen Democratic candidates for president delivered 10-minute stump speeches Friday night to a crowd of more than 13,000 people packed into Wells Fargo Arena in downtown Des Moines. The Iowa Democratic Party Liberty & Justice Celebration was not only the...
Before presidential candidates and their supporters filed into Wells Fargo Arena Friday night for the Iowa Democratic Party Liberty & Justice Celebration, rallies were held close by to pump up the crowd for the biggest event of the primary season. Starting Line...
Setting up for the largest Iowa Democratic event to date was not unlike preparing for a theater production. There’s a backstage, a wing, green rooms, changing rooms and, of course, the big stage where 14 presidential candidates will stand before an audience of more...
It was just over one year ago that Sen. Cory Booker made his first major pre-2020 appearance in Iowa, as the keynote speaker for the Iowa Democratic Party's fall dinner in 2018. His passionate, nearly hour-long speech on the day of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation put...
Pat Rynard sits down with Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price to talk about tomorrow's Liberty and Justice (LJ) Celebration in Des Moines. There will be 14 candidates speaking, hold rallies and marches beforehand, and even afterparties. Please rate and review the...
Since the fall of 2017, tens of thousands of public sector employees in Iowa have participated in annual recertification elections to maintain their union representation. Recertification became a mandatory requirement for public sector unions across the state when the...
We're headed into another major Iowa Caucus moment as the Democratic field gets ready for Friday's Liberty & Justice Dinner in Des Moines. With over 12,000 people attending, it's expected to be the largest Democratic Party gathering in the country before next...
Housing advocates’ push to bring attention to affordability struggles fell short of the Iowa spotlight as the top five polling candidates caused the cancellation of a scheduled affordable housing debate this Friday. Top-tier candidates Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren,...
Sen. Bernie Sanders still commands the youth vote in Iowa, according to today's Youth Caucus Straw Poll results as of late afternoon. Sanders nearly doubled the next-closest Democratic contender in the Iowa Secretary of State's annual survey of high school students,...
