Politics

Senator Amy Klobuchar spoke at the Cedar Falls Women’s Club on Saturday.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times DES MOINES — Less than 48 hours from now, hundreds of thousands of Iowans will gather in schools and churches and libraries and gymnasiums, from the Mississippi River to the Missouri, and participate in the first nominating […]

Senator Amy Klobuchar spoke at the Cedar Falls Women’s Club on Saturday.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times DES MOINES — Less than 48 hours from now, hundreds of thousands of Iowans will gather in schools and churches and libraries and gymnasiums, from the Mississippi River to the Missouri, and participate in the first nominating

Senator Amy Klobuchar spoke at the Cedar Falls Women’s Club on Saturday.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times DES MOINES — Less than 48 hours from now, hundreds of thousands of Iowans will gather in schools and churches and libraries and gymnasiums, from the Mississippi River to the Missouri, and participate in the first nominating

Senator Amy Klobuchar spoke at the Cedar Falls Women’s Club on Saturday.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times CEDAR FALLS — Speaking at her third event of the day roughly 90 minutes from the Iowa-Minnesota border, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota boasted of her victories in the southern part of her state as an argument

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, returning to Iowa after a week attending the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, took an implicit jab at Mr. Sanders during an event in Cedar Rapids as she made the case that she could appeal to a broad range of voters. “I’ve been building a campaign that’s not a

DES MOINES — A highly anticipated poll of Iowa Democrats, set to be released two days before the presidential caucuses, was shelved on Saturday night because of concerns about irregularities in the methodology. The apparent problem, raised by aides to Pete Buttigieg, prompted CNN to cancel an hourlong special organized to release the results of

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee together spent more than $9 million on polling, digital ads and fees paid to Trump-owned properties in the last three months of 2019, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission released on Friday. The filings detail how the Trump campaign, the Trump Victory committee,

CEDAR RAPIDS — At Pete Buttigieg’s campaign stops, the hard sell is an unsubtle reminder of another Midwesterner with an interesting name who won the hearts of Iowa Democrats. The former mayor of South Bend, Ind., rarely mentions Barack Obama by name, but he doesn’t have to. Like early adopters of a band that later

In 2016, more than 200 counties flipped from supporting President Barack Obama in 2012 to backing Trump in the 2016 election. Iowa is home to 31 of the counties. But none compare to Howard County in Northern Iowa – it was the single largest pivot county in the country, flipping by 41 percentage points. We

Later in the week, a Bloomberg event featuring two top officials from the Klobuchar campaign was even better attended. Justin Buoen, the campaign manager, told the assembled reporters how they were compensating for the senator’s absence by, for instance, tele-town- hall-style events in which the candidate speaks to thousands of voters at a time over