Iowa Caucus

After another campaign swing through Iowa that saw large crowds turn out for Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend Mayor announced a new set of endorsements from 20 Democratic and community leaders from across the state. Nine local elected officials, along with another four former elected officials, added their names to Buttigieg’s campaign. Those included Gary…

On the campaign trail, Sen. Cory Booker is frank with Iowans: “Commit to caucus for us.” With just under two months until the first-in-the-nation caucuses, low-polling candidates like Booker are desperate for a breakthrough. During his four-day, 13-stop “Lead with Love” tour across the state, the New Jersey senator has implored Iowans to donate to his…

Six Democratic presidential candidates brought the heat after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters president James P. Hoffa said the candidates “better have a message for us” leading up to their union-focused forum Saturday in Cedar Rapids. “I think the question is, as a Teamster, why should we vote for you?” Hoffa said, during a phone…

The Local America Presidential Forum, welcomed to Waterloo by Mayor Quentin Hart, was hosted by Accelerator for America and the United States Conference of Mayors, and was sponsored by Iowa Starting Line and Mediacom. The forum connected the wide-ranging federal issues on debate stages to the local implementation and impacts mayors and voters see and…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar shared the details of her newly released plan for the future of work Thursday afternoon at the Machinists Union Lodge in Des Moines. Klobuchar spoke for nearly an hour with a table of Iowans about the new challenges workers and businesses face in a modern globalized economy. Panelists on the roundtable included Randy…

Andrew Yang has championed a universal basic income policy, coined “the Freedom Dividend.” A big part of his sell has been that you could use this money for any personal need or want. Struggling to afford housing rent prices near your job? $1,000 can help cushion that cost. Buried under student loan debt? Now you…

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s eight-day ‘No Malarkey’ bus tour across Iowa isn’t full of shenanigans. In fact, it’s really quite serious. Biden spent the first five days of the 660-mile tour discussing a variety of weighty topics with voters in the first-in-the-nation caucus state including an idea he’s been repeating all year. He wants…

Guest op-ed by Polk County Democrats Chair Sean Bagniewski The Democratic National Committee’s road to the debate stage was paved with good intentions. Throughout 2018, a record number of up-and-coming Democratic presidential candidates crisscrossed the country and early voting states to boost down-ballot candidates from would-be legislators to first-time congressional nominees. In November 2018, that…

Guest op-ed from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson, Moorhead Mayor Johnathan Judd and Mankato Mayor Najwa Massad. This week, Senator Amy Klobuchar will take part in the Local America Presidential Forum hosted by the United States Conference of Mayors in Waterloo (you can still get free tickets here). As four mayors from…

Down through the ages, a pretty comprehensive list of sins has been compiled to guide our daily lives. Some have been added over time as society’s norms have changed, and others have been stricken from the list. I’m not here to preach to you about envy, gluttony or greed, or even some of the more…