How 2020 built on what 2016 created When the story broke this month detailing the private conversation between Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren about female electability, Sanders surrogates received a message from the campaign, advising them against going out of their way to engage with it publicly. But later that day, Mr. Sanders’s campaign manager, […]
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WASHINGTON — President Trump directly tied the withholding of almost $400 million in American security aid to investigations that he sought from Ukrainian officials, according to an unpublished manuscript of a book that John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, wrote about his time in the White House. The firsthand account of the
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The “Queer Eye” star stopped for a photo with an out-of-towner who happened to be traveling through the state.Credit…Jordan Gale for The New York Times MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — One of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s go-to arguments on the campaign trail is to stress the need to choose a Democratic presidential nominee who
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DES MOINES — News that President Trump told John Bolton, the former national security adviser, that he wanted to continue freezing aid to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Biden family rippled through the campaign trail in Iowa on Sunday night. Senator Amy Klobuchar, who is taking a 6 a.m.
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“Maybe they feel like they’re being inclusive, but I think they’re really ignoring a lot of underrepresented people,” Jane Hudson, the executive director of the advocacy and legal services group Disability Rights Iowa, said of the Democrats, who are getting most of the attention because the Republicans don’t have a competitive race. “The disability community
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DES MOINES — The weekend is over. The senators on the campaign trail are turning into pumpkins, as Amy Klobuchar put it. And we’re signing off for the night. If you’re just catching up, you can read an overview of the day here. Our team of reporters in Iowa will update you throughout the week
WASHINGTON — It became such a central slogan of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign that at rallies his supporters would chant the three words representing his pledge to take on big donors and special interests: “Drain the swamp.” But as President Trump ramps up his 2020 re-election bid, it is clear that he has tolerated
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MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — One of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s go-to arguments on the campaign trail is to stress the need to choose a Democratic presidential nominee who will help candidates down the ballot. Ahead of the Iowa caucuses, he is deploying some of those down-ballot candidates to vouch for him. At an
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Jake Vilsack, Tom Vilsack’s grandson, shakes hands with Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa.Credit…Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is one of just two leading Democratic candidates who won’t soon have to return to Washington for
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WEST DES MOINES — What’s it like to be a still-undecided Iowa Democrat eight days before the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses? Ann Clary, a state budget analyst, and Holly Brink, a financial analyst, drove from Waukee to see Pete Buttigieg in West Des Moines Sunday to see if they should support him over the other
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