capital of the U.S. state of Iowa, was packed with hundreds of voters, observers and reporters on Monday night as the Iowa Caucuses kicked off the nomination competition for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
While Democratic presidential candidates have not necessarily made trade and agriculture their top priorities in Iowa, they have touched on the issues facing farmers in their proposals to boost rural America. They have broadly called to transition to more sustainable farming and better enforce...
Suppose, though, that Democrats win the presidency but lose the Senate in 2024. It’s really not as crazy as it sounds. If every state votes identically to how it did in the 2020 presidential election — and every Senate race follows the presidential vote — then Democrats would come out ...
CHURDAN, Iowa, March 27, 2019 —In this 2020 presidential election cycle, on the Democrats’ side of things, there are some candidates who are what I’ll call “No Deal Democrats” — the ones way older than I am (71) that I flat refuse to vote for. There...
DEMOCRATS TEST IOWA PLATFORMS KEY CAUCUS STATE POSSIBLE GAUGE FOR PRESIDENTIAL RACEGlen Johnson, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said recently that he was “proud” to have a hand in overturning the abortion protections enshrined in Roe v. Wade, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake took it as a political gift, thinking to herself, “...
Rep. David Scott's colleagues predict he will lose a vote to continue as ranking member of the Agriculture Committee.
Winning 50 seats (plus the tie-breaking vice presidential vote) is a very different outcome for Democrats from winning 55 seats, as the size of their majority would affect how likely they are to pass their ambitious agenda over the objections of more moderate Democrats like, say, Sen. Joe ...
He has already logged more visits to the early primary states than any other contender, including 20 to Iowa. Cons: Despite more than a year of campaigning and his personal financial investment, he’s remained only a blip in early polling. On 2020: Dropped out of the presidential race on...
Just weeks after becoming the first former president to turn 100 years old, Jimmy Carter cast his presidential vote by mail in Georgia on Wednesday, the Carter Center confirmed to POLITICO. Carter’s son, Chip, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that his father “absolutely...