`Zombie’ campaigns could pick up support in Iowa caucuses
FORT MADISON, Iowa — The Iowa caucuses could feature an attack of the “zombie” candidates.
Biden cash reserves lag behind top 2020 rivals
DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Vice President Joe Biden reported Friday that he had $9 million in reserve at the end of 2019, an underwhelming sum that sug...
2020 candidates brace for frenzied, final weekend in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidates are preparing for a final, frenetic weekend of campaigning ahead of the Iowa caucuses, kick-star...
Bloomberg could qualify for debates under new party rules
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Democratic National Committee has dropped grassroots fundraising qualifications for the party’s Feb. 19 debate before the Nevad...
Iowans, they’re just like us. Sometimes.
Right about now, on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, when the nation's political microscope turns to inspect the small state's DNA, people start to compl...
Trump rails against Democratic rivals ahead of Iowa caucuses
DES MOINES, Iowa — President Donald Trump lashed out at his top Democratic presidential rivals Thursday, taking his fight to the first-in-the-nation c...
Election officials get training before 2020 voting begins
WASHINGTON — When state election officials gathered ahead of the last presidential election, major topics were voter registration, identity theft and ...
Biden under pressure to prove he can thwart new GOP attacks
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — With five days until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden is fending off a new onslaught of GOP attacks over his son's business overseas an...
‘How good I feel’: Sanders setting high expectations in Iowa
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Most presidential candidates try to manage expectations in the final stretch of a campaign knowing a surprise win is always better ...
Sanders defines a Jewish identity his way on the 2020 trail
NEW YORK — Bernie Sanders is approaching next week’s Iowa caucuses in a position to become the first major-party Jewish presidential nominee in the na...
Sanders’ Social Security ‘adjustments’ undercut Biden attack
DES MOINES, Iowa — As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making “adjustments" to the tax and benefit structure of Soc...
Iowans adjust to ‘weird’ final days of caucus campaign
DES MOINES, Iowa — In normal years, Iowa is the center of the political universe during the final stretch before its famed caucuses. Top candidates ru...
Democrats’ competing impulses: Should they fight or unite?
FORT DODGE, Iowa — A Democratic presidential race that started as a struggle between the activist left and the moderates has become something far less...
Elizabeth Warren seeks a spark in the final sprint to Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa — Elizabeth Warren is fighting to regain momentum in the turbulent tussle for the Democratic presidential nomination amid lingering q...
Biden’s ‘consensus’ pitch faces biggest test in Iowa
MASON CITY, Iowa — On a snowy morning just days before Iowans make their choice in the Democratic presidential contest, Joe Biden invoked President Ro...
4 Missouri River states unite to try to limit flooding
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri are joining forces for a study that will look for ways the states can limit flooding along the Mis...
Warren vows her organization will win primary, beat Trump
DES MOINES, Iowa — Elizabeth Warren says she has more than 1,000 campaign staffers in 31 states and 100-plus field offices, a show of organizational s...
Democrats struggle to build broad support on eve of voting
OSAGE, Iowa — As Joe Biden wrapped a bus tour of Iowa this week, the elderly crowd gathered at VFW Hall 7920 was a stark reminder of the former vice p...
Democrats not alone in soliciting votes in Iowa; GOP is, too
WASHINGTON — With all eyes on Democrats as they prepare to cast their ballots in Iowa's highly anticipated kickoff caucuses, President Donald Trump's ...
Buttigieg’s unlikely Iowa rise now carries high expectations
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg finds himself in a place that he could hardly have contemplated when he began running for president a year ago: He like...
Biden downplays tensions with Sanders over Social Security
MASON CITY, Iowa — Joe Biden sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders after the two candidates exchanged...
Far from Senate, Biden largely avoids impeachment politics
AMES, Iowa — As the Senate begins President Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Capitol Hill, Democrat Joe Biden is 1,000 miles away in Iowa, trying t...
2020 hopefuls stuck in Washington deploy surrogates for help
DES MOINES, Iowa — Steve Sovern had low expectations for a recent event he hosted to support Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign. Iowans are lege...
2020 Watch: Will impeachment change the primary?
DES MOINES, Iowa — Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:
Democrats navigate sensitive gender politics as voting nears
DES MOINES, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidates spent the weekend grappling with how to address questions surrounding sexism and gender bias as ...
Candidates seek new caucus voters in trailer parks, rallies
Ottumwa, Iowa — Bernie Sanders is sending organizers to convenience stores across Iowa and staking out drug stores and even nursing homes.
Facing Senate trial crunch, Dems blitzing Iowa, early states
NEWTON, Iowa — As a winter storm barreled down on Iowa, Elizabeth Warren’s campaign team struggled with whether to scrap a town hall scheduled at the ...
2020′s first big test? Not Iowa, but a tiny Texas House race
KATY, Texas — Beto O'Rourke is livestreaming again. Joe Biden and Julián Castro are making their presence felt. Mike Bloomberg has knocked on doors an...
Amid hacking fears, key caucus states to use app for results
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Two of the first three states to vote in the Democratic presidential race will use new mobile apps to gather results from thousands ...
Iowa Democrats treat Warren-Sanders dust-up as ‘Who cares?’
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ann Stromquist watched this week’s Democratic presidential debate like the research scientist she is. She studied the candidates' an...