Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• August 10, 2019
John Hickenlooper touted his background as a former governor, saying no sitting senator since 1900 has ever defeated an incumbent president – it's always been governors or former governors.
Hickenlooper,...
Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• August 10, 2019
Senator and presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand used the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox to tout her background on women's rights, saying her grandmother and mother inspired her to get into...
Former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak opened his speech by calling himself a "Pennsylvania boy."
Sestak, who announced his candidacy June 23, highlighted his experience in foreign policy in a speech to...
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, emphasized her Midwestern roots at the Des Moines Register political soapbox Saturday afternoon.
Referencing Iowa-...
Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• August 10, 2019
“It’s a pleasure to speed-date with you today,” said Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, the third Democratic candidate to speak on the State Fair’s Des Moines Register Political Soapbox on Aug. 10.
Right off...
The governor of Washington and one of the Democrats running for president took to the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox on the morning of Aug. 10.
He’s focused on climate change as his central...
“Aloha.”
That’s how Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, began her speech at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox on the afternoon of Aug. 9.
She focused her speech on her experience in the National...
Marianne Williamson, an author and a motivational speaker, said America needs to focus on the causes, not the symptoms, of problems in the country.
Drawing a similar size crowd as the presidential hopefuls...
Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney spoke in the midday heat at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox on Aug. 9, saying he would be the candidate to unite rural and urban America and beat President Trump...
The second day of the fair kicked off with a promise of sunshine and a hot day, long lines to fair parking, and another presidential candidate — former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián...
Former Vice President Joe Biden, wearing aviator sunglasses, told a crowd at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 8 he would repeal the 2017 tax cuts President Trump championed in order to give more money toward...
Julia Shanahan, Assistant Politics Editor
• August 7, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris delivered a speech on the State Fair’s Des Moines Register Political Soapbox to an overflow crowd in which she condemned President Trump on numerous...
