Politics

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Troy Price, the head of the Iowa Democratic Party, said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference that it’s a conversation that happens every four years: Does Iowa deserve to hold the first presidential nominating contest? This time, though, the critique comes after a stunning crackup of the state’s prized caucuses. Democratic officials […]

Both Mr. Sanders, of Vermont, and Mr. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., have tried to claim an overall victory in the state, based on their internal campaign data, and they were too closely matched in the initial returns to declare a single winner. But in New Hampshire on Tuesday, Mr. Buttigieg brandished

The faulty smartphone app behind the chaotic aftermath of Iowa’s Democratic caucuses was the work of a little-known company called Shadow Inc. that was founded by veterans of Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful presidential campaign, and whose previous work was marked by a string of failures, including a near bankruptcy. The app grew out of a broader

WASHINGTON — After spending nearly two weeks confined to their desks and forbidden from speaking, senators took turns on the Senate floor on Tuesday announcing whether they planned to vote to convict or acquit President Trump when they render a verdict on Wednesday in the third presidential impeachment trial in the nation’s history. The bitterly

DES MOINES — The diagnosis can appear unanimous. Bipartisanship? “Broken,” former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has said. The criminal justice system? “Broken,” Senator Bernie Sanders ruled last year. The grand American bargain? “I know what’s broken,” Senator Elizabeth Warren has promised, “and I know how to fix it.” But what if it’s all

“She can actually address things in a way that people can comprehend it,” said Mayor Sheldon Neeley of Flint, a Democrat who said the governor was skilled in speaking to voters who had lost faith in government. “She can reach and she can touch and she can articulate a message for those individuals to be

COMPTON, Calif. — Michael R. Bloomberg’s presidential campaign moved on Tuesday to exploit the chaotic outcome of the Iowa caucuses, escalating an already enormous campaign of television advertising and publicly making the case that a messy outcome in the early states opened the way for Mr. Bloomberg. Mr. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor

This was Iowa caucus night back in the mid-1970s. And these are members of the national media covering the voting. It was so unusual to see national media in Iowa back then that people actually paid to watch them. “The Democratic Party charged $15 a head for people to watch the media watch the people.”

Iowa Democratic Party says problems reporting data were due to ‘coding issue.’ The Iowa Democratic Party said Tuesday that there were delays in announcing the results from the precincts because the new app that it planned to use for its caucus results reported only partial data, thanks to a coding issue. “As part of our

DES MOINES — Sean Bagniewski had seen the problems coming. It wasn’t so much that the new app that the Iowa Democratic Party had planned to use to report its caucus results didn’t work. It was that people were struggling to even log in or download it in the first place. After all, there had