Iowa Caucus

Pete Buttigieg is barreling toward an Iowa Caucus victory, and there’s not a damn thing anyone’s tweets can do about it. The month of December has given the South Bend Mayor his biggest challenges yet, including intense media questions over his work at McKinsey, attacks on his fundraising from all sides on the debate stage,…

Guest op-ed by Prakash Kopparapu, chair of the Asian and Latino Coalition From Russia to North Korea and the threat of ebola to ISIS, international engagement and foreign policy are among the most pressing issues for our country. Yet we haven’t heard a ton from the presidential candidates about their foreign policy plans. According to…

They’re filling the gas tank back up in John Delaney’s big blue RV for a final blitz across Iowa in the last month leading up to the caucus. Delaney and his team will embark upon a 40-stop tour in January, focusing their time in many tiny towns in rural counties as he fights to hit…

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has now visited all of Iowa’s 99 counties. She wrapped up her tour of the state in Humboldt on Friday afternoon. “We are really excited about this as you know,” Klobuchar said. “For me, it’s really a part of my way of being, to go out there and meet people and…

The 99-county tour. It’s been an ambitious goal for anyone looking to win over Iowa voters in every corner of the state. Candidates have completed it and love to talk about it, and it’s become somewhat of a unicorn to chase while campaigning in the state. It’s a great tool for state races and a…

On Pete Buttigieg’s first trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate, during a bitterly cold day in February, he made a stop at Iowa State University in Ames to speak with a group of college students. Over forty young voters showed up, a good turnout for a then-unknown contender, and Buttigieg gave an eloquent presentation…

One of the tenets of Sen. Cory Booker’s 2020 presidential bid can be traced back to a Maya Angelou quote. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel,” she said. The New Jersey Senator often recites the sentiment during his lengthy campaign event riffs. That feeling is what’s carrying Booker, who despite…

During the second day of Sen. Cory Booker’s open-press, all-on-the-record bus trip across Iowa, the Senator was more settled into his travel and was getting some additional work done. He went up to the front of the bus several times to make phone calls and conduct other business—during his last event in Mason City, the…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is in the midst of a 27-county barnstorm of Iowa, part of her effort to do the full 99-county tour before caucus night gets here. She’s riding high after a solid debate performance, one that generated $1 million in donations to her in the 24 hours after, allowing her to expand her…

Sen. Cory Booker set off on his four-day bus tour of Iowa yesterday morning, loading into his newly-wrapped ride that was adorned with the names of voters from around the country who donated to his campaign. Now off the debate stage, Booker is devoting even more time to stumping in Iowa in the hopes of…