Iowa City West High senior Aaron Fennell-Chametzky didn’t know what question he would ask presidential hopeful Andrew Yang before he raised his hand in the middle of a crowded bookstore.
The event...
Presidential hopeful Julián Castro held fast to his criticism of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses on Wednesday at a visit to the University of Iowa Latino Native American Cultural Center, hosted...
Iowa City high school senior Thomas McMillan can’t open YouTube without being bombarded with advertisements from presidential candidates.
“I really hate YouTube video ads. I hate them,” he said...
In Iowa, campaign field organizers are in heavy demand — personal connections are king when persuading Iowans to turn out and stand in a Democratic presidential candidate’s corner on caucus night....
On Sunday afternoon, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg spoke to a crowd of over 2,000 at a Marriott in Coralville during a town hall event, making it the largest crowd he's drawn in Johnson County...
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg drew his biggest Johnson County crowd to date in his first visit since his rise to the top of the latest Iowa poll, amid new controversies and shots by fellow...
Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• December 8, 2019
Businessman Tom Steyer, told reporters at an Iowa City campaign stop that while he would support publicly funded elections, he is unsure if his largely self-funded campaign would be in the same position...
Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• December 7, 2019
Presidential hopeful Cory Booker urged Iowans in Iowa City to donate to his campaign and to name him as a top-choice candidate if a pollster calls, even if he is not their first choice.
The New Jersey...
Sue and Bob Dvorsky, Johnson County political workhorses, were two of Sen. Kamala Harris’ earliest endorsers.
As news broke on television networks Tuesday afternoon that Harris would drop out of...
Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• December 2, 2019
Elizabeth Warren will bring both Democrats and Republicans on board with her Ultra-Millionaire tax to pay for universal free college and broad student-loan debt cancellation, she pledged in an interview...
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock suspended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, he announced in a tweet Monday morning.
"While there were many obstacles we could not have anticipated when...
