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...

Area lawmakers will come together to discuss education and other topics in a forum hosted by The Daily Iowan ahead of the 2020 legislative session. The forum will be Dec. 8 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in...

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...

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...

Organizer Anthony Zarzycki sometimes has to correct people on whether the organization he’s with — Nextgen America — coordinates with its founder, presidential hopeful Tom Steyer. “When any...

Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson pitched herself as a political outsider at Heartland Yoga in Iowa City on Sunday, saying she is uniquely positioned to address fundamental problems she...

Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., sought to differentiate himself from fellow nomination contender Joe Biden at a meet and greet at a carpenter’s union in Iowa City Sunday night. “So when (former Vice...

Former Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak dropped his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday. Sestak was a late entry into the race and did not qualify for any of the Democratic presidential...

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa accused U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of blocking bipartisan work on the 2019 Violence Against Women Restoration Act from coming to the Senate floor in a Nov. 21 conference...