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While most candidates were consumed with end-of-quarter fundraising in September, U.S. Senate candidate Kimberly Graham volunteered her time to help a young asylum seeker prepare for his immigration hearing. Graham, a children's rights attorney from Indianola, spent...
Patrick Kennedy knows a thing or two about the effects gun violence has on a family. He also knows about mental health and addiction disorders. Patrick, the youngest son of Ted Kennedy, is open about his past use of OxyContin, alcohol and cocaine. He sought...
Congresswoman Cindy Axne told constituents Tuesday the United States had hit a "crisis point" in its health care system. "Suffice it to say, you've got a group of people in Congress who truly understand we're at a crisis point," said Axne, Iowa's 3rd District...
In her first TV ad of the presidential primary, Amy Klobuchar is pitching herself to Iowa caucus-goers as the candidate who can best appeal to all parts of the country. "If you feel stuck in the middle of the extremes in our politics and you are tired of the noise and...
Theresa Greenfield earned the endorsement today of the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, described by the climate action group as a candidate "committed to investing in the Hawkeye State's clean energy economy." "Iowans are already feeling the impact of...
John Delaney believes his path to the presidency runs through rural Iowa. Iowa is the first-in-the-nation caucus state, he said, because Iowans don’t pay any mind to what’s happening on CNN. Instead, they’re worried about the issues they talk about at the kitchen...
State Sen. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a physician from Ottumwa, has announced her campaign to try for a fourth time to represent Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Miller-Meeks, in the midst of her first term representing Senate District 41 in the Iowa Legislature,...
If Julián Castro is to do well in the Iowa Caucus, one thing he'll likely need is strong turnout from the state's growing Latinx community. But when he visited Perry, Iowa late last month-- a town where nearly 40 percent of its residents are of Hispanic or Latino...
Nearly a fifth of Iowan households do not make enough to live without public assistance, a new Iowa Policy Project report has found, due to factors like rising housing costs. According to the Cost of Living in Iowa report, released last Tuesday, family budget costs...
Abby Bankes, an 18-year-old Drake University freshman from Oak Park, Illinois, has always had politics as a part of her life. But the first political event of her life as a college student? The historical, record-breaking Polk County Democrats Steak Fry. It was...
When Tom Steyer talks about the House's move this past week to launch an impeachment investigation, most of his sentences begin with "my point on this all along" or "as I've always been saying." And it's true, Steyer, the former California businessman now running for...
Affordable housing has an unofficial figurehead as the national crisis makes its debut as a major issue on the presidential campaign trail this cycle. Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, served as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary for the...
The 50-some staffers of Cory Booker's Iowa Caucus operation turned into 50-some finance assistants this past week as their campaign fights to survive in the primary. In addition to their usual field duties, the Iowa staff have hit the phones and their own personal...
Riding off of a strong performance at last weekend's Steak Fry in Des Moines, Beto O'Rourke is announcing a new round of Iowa endorsers today. Nine new caucus activists and elected officials are publicly throwing their support behind the former congressman. They...
It's been a consequential month for youth dedicated to tackling climate change. Before Swedish 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg on Monday scolded the U.N. Climate Action Summit audience asking, "How dare you?", students across Iowa organized and promoted a number...
On an aptly-named "Bernie Beats Trump" tour, Bernie Sanders stumped through Iowa counties this past week that went for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but chose President Trump in 2016. The four-day tour concluded after beginning Saturday in Des Moines and ending...
Latino Heritage Month in Iowa can be very special. As a longtime Latina resident in Des Moines, I was thrilled to learn I would interview one of my personal heroes. Watching this tiny, 5-foot-tall woman walk toward me amazed me at how she was able to fight for...
A key to any successful Iowa Caucus campaign is having a broad base of support distributed throughout the state's 99 counties, rather than pockets of strong support here and there. It's particularly important here because of the way delegates are apportioned -- you...
Beto O’Rourke supporters debuted signs at Saturday’s Polk County Steak Fry which mirrored those from Bobby Kennedy’s storied 1968 run. ‘Beto is good’ and ‘Leader for the 20s,’ were phrases held up on homemade wooden posts, imitating Kennedy’s ‘Bobby is good’ and...
Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer today joined other prominent Iowa Democrats in endorsing Theresa Greenfield for the U.S. Senate. Greenfield, president of a family-owned real estate company in Des Moines, is one of four Democratic candidates running to unseat Republican...
As it has in past Democratic primary cycles, this weekend's Steak Fry event proved a major road marker on the path to the party's nomination. That, combined with the Des Moines Register's new poll and Saturday's The People's Presidential Forum, helped set the tone for...
When Mount Vernon, Iowa resident Karla Steffens talks about Elizabeth Warren’s policies, plans and general character, most of her sentences start out with the words “I love.” “I love the policies of Warren,” Steffens said during a backyard house party that Warren...
America’s most progressive generation wants a voice in the 2020 Presidential election. “Our political climate today is very unstable, and I feel like the only way we’re going to get change is if we educate ourselves,” said 17-year-old Suraj Moorjani, a senior at...
Polk County Democrats' largest Steak Fry in history featured 17 of the 18 serious presidential candidates vying for votes in 2020. More than 12,000 tickets were sold for the Saturday event at Water Works Park in Des Moines. In keeping with its name, it was a rainy day...
Newly-eligible Iowan voters who attended the Polk County Steak Fry are ready to be politically active and ready to demand their needs. Attendees aged 16 to 20 were abundant Saturday at Water Works Park and heard from 17 presidential candidates. While some young voters...
Pat Rynard sits down with Josh Cook to talk about Steak Fry day and the new CNN/Des Moines Register poll released Saturday night. Pat also interviews seven presidential candidates at the Iowa Starting Line booth. Photo by Julie Fleming Let us know what you think...
Amidst a day full of chanting, marches, sign wars and a number of other moves to demonstrate organizational strength, Elizabeth Warren’s Iowa team diverged from the pack to focus on something very specific: talking to voters. By the end of the night, Warren found...
The day started early for Kamala Harris and her team. At the Water Works grounds for the Polk County Steak Fry, most of her supporters said they showed up at 6:30 in the morning to form a block of chanting and cheering. Harris’ campaign bought two spots near the...
The Steak Fry is underway. Your Starting Line team was spread out across the candidates' rally sites. Here's what was happening early on today. Buttigieg’s Camp Sprawls At The Steak Fry Pete Buttigieg’s supporters were visible upon entering the Steak Fry gates. “Mayor...
It's Steak Fry day in Iowa. The biggest event yet of this Iowa Caucus season is upon us, and campaigns are pulling out all the stops to project momentum to both caucus-goers and the media. Seventeen Democratic presidential candidates will be speaking at the Polk...
