Iowa Caucus

With nine days until the Iowa Caucus, every campaign is competing for those remaining key endorsements from activists and elected officials. The best way to lock in wavering Iowans is to do so in person, and Pete Buttigieg has the advantage there as he stumps throughout the state while some of his competitors are stuck…

Charles City resident Denise Morozov made a few major life changes last year. She took a new job, moved from her home state of Nebraska, switched her party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, and became, for the first time in her life, active in politics. The 46-year-old is now a precinct captain for Pete Buttigieg,…

From celebrities and athletes to spouses and friends, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have brought about everyone imaginable into Iowa in 2019 and 2020. It’s a good way for the candidates to keep a presence when they themselves can’t be in Iowa, to rally their volunteers, or to boost the excitement at major rallies. And…

In the final stretch before the Iowa caucus, candidates have to make January count. Those still remaining in the race will have held well over 200 events in Iowa before the month is out. That’s even with the interruption of the Senate impeachment trial, which called three candidates, Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth…

Every one of us probably has a moment of dread from our grade school days squirreled away in the dusty recesses of our memories. Or, many such moments. For me, it was in elementary school when it was my turn to sing a solo in music class. I would have given anything to be spared…

Tom Steyer may be a billionaire now, but he’s not dying a billionaire. Or at least that’s what his wife, Kat Taylor, said on his campaign bus earlier this month while in Iowa, supporting his largely self-funded bid. The two have been united in their personal lives to their pledge to give the bulk of…

Guest op-ed from Mayor Quentin Hart of Waterloo, Iowa. Last July, I walked along the Fourth Street Bridge overlooking the Cedar River, alongside South Bend Mayor Buttigieg. It was the same place I came the night of December 1, 2015, when I learned the people of Waterloo had elected me the first Black mayor of…

As Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar took to the Senate floor Tuesday to attend the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the role of the presidency was posed as a question to former Vice President Joe Biden at a town hall. “Does the presidency matter anymore?” a man asked in Ames. “Someone…

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 Women Act. “As a United States Senator, Joe Biden did something nobody else could do —…

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 for Democrats to seriously think about who can be their party’s Ronald Reagan. In other…