Iowa Caucus

Cold weather and technical difficulties didn’t dampen the spirits of the Monday night crowd of 764 people that showed up for Sen. Bernie Sanders in Des Moines. That’s good, because it was his last Iowa event before he returned today to Washington, D.C., for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and he’ll need those supporters…

Iowa state Reps. Chris Hall of Sioux City and Monica Kurth of Davenport, along with state Sen. Rob Hogg of Cedar Rapids, all endorsed Senator Amy Klobuchar in the Iowa Caucus this morning. Hall and Kurth announced their endorsement when they joined other current legislators who have already backed Klobuchar at a news conference in…

Most polling in Iowa has shown voters placing Sen. Elizabeth Warren as their preferred second choice option in race, an important advantage for her in the realignment phase of caucus night. But with so many other candidates dropping out before Feb. 3, those second choice movements are already playing out in Warren’s favor beforehand. Today,…

Eight presidential candidates gathered Monday afternoon in Des Moines for the 2020 Iowa Brown & Black Democratic Presidential Forum, a minority-focused event dating back to 1984. Reporters from Vice News led one-on-one discussions with the candidates as they were asked to explain how their policy proposals would affect American minorities like African Americans, Latinx and…

One of the biggest stories out of Donald Trump’s presidency is the long process of dismantling President Barack Obama’s legacy. Whether it’s rolling back environmental protections, packing the courts with right-wing ideologues, pulling out of hard-fought international agreements like the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) or the many and laborious attempts…

The big question Iowa Democrats are grappling with as they try to select a nominee is a complicated one: who is “electable?” It’s that question of who can beat Trump that has Iowans “paralyzed by fear,” deeply afraid that they’ll end up picking someone who could go down in defeat and grant Trump a second…

A new poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers has Joe Biden back in the front of the pack of Democratic candidates, with now a group of five contenders tightly competing for a win, place or show. Biden comes in at 24% in the latest quarterly survey commissioned by Focus on Rural America and conducted by David…

At a town hall event in Indianola today, Joe Biden went after Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign for mischaracterizing a statement the former vice president made about Social Security during a speech at the Brookings Institution in April of 2018. During a question and answer session at the Indianola town hall, a woman told Biden she…

Senate impeachment proceedings will officially begin in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, finally giving us a chance to see the answer to the question we’ve been asking for some time: how does this change caucus campaign strategies? There are multiple senators that will be stuck in D.C. for impeachment, leaving Joe Biden, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg…

The American Postal Workers Union Local 44 of Central Iowa has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for president, the campaign announced today. “Senator Bernie Sanders stands for the working class people of this country,” said DMI APWU Local 44 President Mike Bates. “He will fight for postal banking that would bring in revenue to the Postal…