By Bob Arbuckle, Iowa City Johnson County Supervisor Royceann Porter, running for re-election, has skipped recent candidate forums, apparently fearful of questions she may be asked. Porter has also missed the most Supervisors meetings of any Board member, even considering her recent personal issues. County department employees and agency leaders remark that Porter has lately […]
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Brenna Bird makes debut as Trump surrogate, flying to New York for a photo op outside criminal fraud trial
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird traveled to New York to support Donald Trump during his ongoing criminal trial on allegations of committing business fraud in order to win the 2016 presidential election. That support included serving as a surrogate for the former president by denouncing a witness Trump cannot make public comments about because of […]
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Reynolds endorses Trump, Trump ignores Reynolds
It was always obvious Gov. Kim Reynolds would endorse Donald Trump for president once Ron DeSantis’s floundering 2024 campaign collapsed. DeSantis gave up his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Trump six days after his distant second-place finish in the Iowa Republican Caucus on Jan. 15. On Wednesday, Gov. Reynolds did the obvious, […]
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Biden wins Iowa; only 2.6% of registered Democrats voted in new mail-in caucus
President Joe Biden scored an overwhelming victory in the Iowa Democratic Party’s first vote-by-mail presidential caucus on Tuesday night. Biden received 90.9 percent of the votes cast. The two other candidates on the mail-in presidential preference card, as the IDP calls its ballots, were Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, who won 3 percent of the vote, […]
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‘Infertility is bipartisan’: Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan says Rep. Miller-Meeks’ support of embryo ‘personhood’ puts IVF at risk
“You can’t have that both ways,” Christina Bohannan said during an online news conference on Thursday. Bohannan, the Democratic candidate challenging two-term incumbent Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, was referring to the “backtracking” some politicians are doing following a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court declaring that embryos have all the rights […]
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Iowa Democratic Party’s first vote-by-mail caucus ends on (Super) Tuesday, March 5
Only a few days remain for Democrats in Iowa to participate in their party’s 2024 presidential caucus. Ballots for the state’s first vote-by-mail caucus must be postmarked by Tuesday, March 5, to be considered valid. The Iowa Democratic Party will announce the results of the vote that same night. The party began sending out its […]
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More than 17,500 mail-in ballots have been requested for the yet-to-be-held Iowa Democratic Caucus
It may feel like Iowa’s presidential caucus season is long over. The national reporters are gone, along with their clichés about and misunderstandings of the state. It may feel like ages since Donald Trump won the least surprising victory since the Harlem Globetrotters’ last game against the Washington Generals. But the state’s Democratic presidential caucus […]
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Report: Gov. Reynolds has been tweeting about Trump and DeSantis on a semi-secret social media account
There’s no shortage of tweets from semi-anonymous accounts about the Iowa Caucus on the platform Elon Musk has renamed X, and until this week, none of them seemed significant. But on Thursday, the New York Times reported that one of those accounts belongs to Gov. Kim Reynolds. For the past year, Reynolds has tweeted about […]
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In Waterloo, Trump avoids discussing Colorado Supreme Court decision but does mention Hitler
Donald Trump addressed a cheering crowd at the Waterloo Convention Center on Tuesday night, but never mentioned the day’s biggest news about his presidential campaign. Shortly before Trump took the stage at his Commit to Caucus event, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a decision confirming a lower state court’s finding that Trump had engaged in […]
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History-making Hiawatha City Councilmember Aime Wichtendahl is running for the Iowa House
Hiawatha City Councilmember Aime Wichtendahl is running for the Iowa House of Representatives in District 80. Democrat Art Staed currently represents the Linn County district, which cover Hiawatha, Robins and part of Cedar Rapids, but he announced last week he’s running for the Iowa Senate seat held by fellow Democrat Todd Taylor, who, in turn, […]
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One month after Reynolds endorsed DeSantis, Trump’s lead in the Iowa Poll has increased
Donald Trump was the first choice of 51 percent of respondents in the latest Iowa Poll of likely Republican caucusgoers. That’s an eight percentage point increase from Trump’s previous best showing this year, 43 percent in the Iowa Poll conducted in late October. The poll of 502 registered Republicans who said they will “definitely or […]
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Iowa Democratic Party sets the lineup for its 2024 presidential caucus
Dean Phillips is not a name often seen in the news. The Minnesota congressman appeared occasionally in national news stories throughout the first half of the year, when he was saying he might challenge President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. After formally announcing his candidacy on Oct. 27 in Concord, New Hampshire, Phillips […]
