Iowa Caucus

“Anybody want a beer?” South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg yelled into a crowd of frantic supporters following his lap around the Polk County Steak Fry. The democratic candidate had just led a rally of around 1,300 supporters into the Water Works grounds and was now bartending beer after flipping steaks on the grill. “Customers up…

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 event’s entrance. It was along one…

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 Pete, he’s our guy, welcome to the Steak Fry!” Supporters screamed as…

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 County Democrats Steak Fry, the third annual the county party…

Former Vice President Joe Biden responded in Iowa today to the reports that President Donald Trump had pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden and his family. “It’s concerning to me that a president would do something like that,” Biden told Iowa Starting Line in an interview after a climate town hall in Cedar Rapids…

Elizabeth Warren in motion stays in motion. The senator hosted a town hall in front of nearly 2,000 on Thursday night at the largest stand-alone event the Democratic hopeful has had in Iowa this far, her campaign said. The event, held at the University of Iowa’s Memorial Union, follows her historic rally of 20,000 people…

The Iowa endorsements continue to roll in for Pete Buttigieg ahead of tomorrow’s big Steak Fry event in Des Moines. Twelve more Iowa activists and elected officials are publicly backing the South Bend mayor, including several leaders in women’s rights organizations, LGBTQ leaders, a former Iowa City mayor and a notable past Bernie Sanders activist.…

Guest piece from Scott County Auditor Roxanna Moritz, Polk County Auditor Jamie Fitzgerald and Johnson County Auditor Travis Weipert. The right to vote is the central tenet of our democracy, and the integrity of our voting system is essential to ensuring no voter is disenfranchised while fulfilling their civic duties. We take our role in…

She’s fucking moving to Iowa. Well, Kamala Harris may as well rent her own apartment here, because she’ll be spending half of October in Iowa as part of a new, all-in blitz of the lead-off caucus state. Harris’ campaign leadership confirmed to reporters on a call this morning the new campaign strategy that was inadvertently…

Tom Steyer has a message for Iowa farmers: Donald Trump screwed you. That’s how his new TV ad in the lead-off caucus state opens, with a clip from Sen. Chuck Grassley on Iowa Press saying, “They screwed us.” The quip from Iowa’s senior senator in August was in reference to the Trump Administration’s granting of…