Since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the opening of an impeachment inquiry into President Trump Sept. 24, Sam Glaser has been rewriting his “U.S. Congress” class syllabus every morning to...
What exactly is a caucus? And why is Iowa's first? For this episode of The Cloakroom, The Daily Iowan sat down with Professor David Redlawsk to discuss how Iowa's caucuses began and why the Hawkeye State...
Sarah Watson, Politics Editor
• September 24, 2019
Iowa's three Democratic representatives in Congress said they support beginning an impeachment inquiry into President Trump after reports surfaced that Trump allegedly pressured the Ukrainian president...
Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• September 22, 2019
Barbara Stannard and Dennis Doderer are neighbors and have lived in Iowa City for nearly 40 years. They attended the Polk County Steak Fry together on Saturday, wearing stickers and holding signs in support...
Seventeen Democratic presidential hopefuls stuck to their stump speeches in Des Moines at the Polk County Steak Fry, despite large organizing efforts from the campaigns.
With a large field of Democrats...
Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• September 19, 2019
In the midst of multiple federal battles on the agriculture front, Iowa political leaders say ratifying the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and finishing trade negotiations with China are top priorities...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. gave her pitch for the presidential nomination at a rally in the IMU, delivering a familiar message on economic change to a crowd of more than 1,000 people.
Warren touted...
Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• September 12, 2019
In his first stop of a two-day swing through Iowa, 2020 presidential hopeful Tom Steyer said being an outsider candidate and a long-time advocate for President Trump’s impeachment makes him different...
The Iowa Republican Party is holding onto plans to have its traditional straw poll at the caucus in February to decide the Republican nominee in the bid for the White House. Still, local party leaders...
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders held a rally on the Pentacrest Sunday as part of a tour of the three Iowa regent universities, focusing on issues that matter to students in an effort to mobilize young voters.
Sanders...
On the T. Anne Cleary Walkway, tailgating near Kinnick Stadium, and tucked away in meeting rooms at the Iowa City Public Library, University of Iowa students are working hard to elect who they hope will...
About five months out from the Iowa caucuses, Susan Daggett — wife to U.S. Senator from Colorado Michael Bennet — clutched a couple pages of notebook paper in her hand and launched into her husband’s...
