As 21 or more national Democrats vie for their party’s presidential nomination, many are visiting college campuses across Iowa, including the University of Iowa. College Democratic chapters are acting as key go-betweens between presidential hopefuls and campus. The host of The Cloakroom, Jake Nemmers and politics editor of The Daily Iowan, Sarah Watson, sat down with next year’s caucus coordinator for the University of Iowa Democrats, Nick Pryor, to talk about the UDems’ outsized influence when it comes to Democratic politics in Iowa.
The Cloakroom: The middleman between candidates and campus
May 8, 2019