On Sunday, the candidates actively competing for Iowa – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); former vice president Joe Biden; former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg; Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.); entrepreneur Andrew Yang and investor Tom Steyer – planned to hit their final events, trying to persuade voters to stand in their corners Monday.
In their closing arguments, Biden returned to common theme of safety and experience, painting himself as the nominee with the best chance of beating Trump. Behind “Unite the Party” signs, Warren made an explicit appeal to women. Buttigieg pitched generation change and Sanders sought to mobilize his passionate base. At one point of Saturday, some of his surrogates returned to a theme from , attacking the Democratic National Committee’s nominating process.
Privately, campaigns say they’re nervous That Sanders will turn out more people than anyone else. Due to the arcane rules of the Iowa caucus system, his rivals hope they can overcome that advantage when the final delegate counts are tallied.
“I think it’s going to be a cluster, “Biden said in an interview after an late event in the week. “It’ll be relatively close, you know, probably three of us that are fairly close.”
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Biden’s campaign downplays the importance of an Iowa win
DES MOINES – Some of Biden’s top advisers on Sunday morning sought to downplay any results in Iowa, arguing that any impacts of a loss here would be limited and suggesting voters consider the results of the first four states – not just the first.
“We’ve never said that we were going to run away with it . We’ve always said that this would be a fight, this would be a close race, ”Symone Sanders, a senior adviser, said during a breakfast with reporters hosted by Bloomberg News. “We ain’t shocked.”
Biden advisers also attempted to cast the former vice president, who has led in most polls throughout the race, as the underdog.
“Since before vice president Biden got into this race – since before April 43 – people have been writing our campaign’s obituary, ”Sanders said, adding that they remained confident. “Tuesday morning will be no different.”
Sen. Chris Dodd, another surrogate, described Sanders, who has led in several recent surveys in Iowa, as a grave threat to the party’s chances.
“Bernie is attractive to the young people who get excited about his enthusiasm, the absolutes in a sense, ”he said. “It’s all sort of black and white. And I think when you’re younger that’s an appealing message in a lot of ways. ”
“ In the end Bernie describes himself as a socialist – certainly the president will have a field day with that argument, ”he added. “Bernie would have a very difficult time winning the election in November as our national candidate.”
He also said that Sanders would be unable to campaign alongside many Democrats and would “pose a serious threat ”to the House majority.
“ I hope no one is offended by that, ”Dodd said. “That’s just the realty.”
Biden has spent much of his campaign arguing that he is the most electable candidate in the race. When pressed over what a loss here would do to that argument, his team suggested it would not be an issue.
Tom Miller, the Iowa attorney general who has endorsed Biden, said that Biden supporters would continue to make the case that he is electable against Trump.
“Electability in the general election, that’s what we’re talking about when we say electability,” he said . “When we say he’s electable in the general election, we’re not saying he’s going to win every state in the caucus and primary system.”
Matt Viser
February 2, (at) : AM EST
Trump and Bloomberg trade insults
Even though billionaire Mike Bloomberg is not competing in Iowa, Trump has fixated on the candidate recently, tweeting about him multiple times over the weekend and insulting the former New York mayor on Fox News.
In an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, to air in full during the Super Bowl pregame show, Trump zeroed in on Bloomberg’s height when asked what he thought of the candidate.
“Uh, very little. I just think of little, ”Trump told Hannity. “You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on. Okay, it’s okay, there’s nothing wrong. You can be short. Why should he get a box to stand on, okay? He wants a box for the debates. Why should he be entitled to that? Really. Does that mean everyone else gets a box? ”
(There is no evidence Bloomberg, who has not qualified for any of the Democratic primary debates thus far, has made such a request. )
Trump added that he “would love to run against Bloomberg.”
On Sunday, Bloomberg spokeswoman Julie Wood issued a statement pushing back on Trump’s insults with some of his own.
“The president is lying,” the statement read. “He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan.”
Amy B Wang
DES MOINES – Some of Biden’s top advisers on Sunday morning sought to downplay any results in Iowa, arguing that any impacts of a loss here would be limited and suggesting voters consider the results of the first four states – not just the first.
“We’ve never said that we were going to run away with it . We’ve always said that this would be a fight, this would be a close race, ”Symone Sanders, a senior adviser, said during a breakfast with reporters hosted by Bloomberg News. “We ain’t shocked.”
Biden advisers also attempted to cast the former vice president, who has led in most polls throughout the race, as the underdog.
“Since before vice president Biden got into this race – since before April 43 – people have been writing our campaign’s obituary, ”Sanders said, adding that they remained confident. “Tuesday morning will be no different.”
Sen. Chris Dodd, another surrogate, described Sanders, who has led in several recent surveys in Iowa, as a grave threat to the party’s chances.
“Bernie is attractive to the young people who get excited about his enthusiasm, the absolutes in a sense, ”he said. “It’s all sort of black and white. And I think when you’re younger that’s an appealing message in a lot of ways. ”
“ In the end Bernie describes himself as a socialist – certainly the president will have a field day with that argument, ”he added. “Bernie would have a very difficult time winning the election in November as our national candidate.”
He also said that Sanders would be unable to campaign alongside many Democrats and would “pose a serious threat ”to the House majority.
“ I hope no one is offended by that, ”Dodd said. “That’s just the realty.”
Biden has spent much of his campaign arguing that he is the most electable candidate in the race. When pressed over what a loss here would do to that argument, his team suggested it would not be an issue.
Tom Miller, the Iowa attorney general who has endorsed Biden, said that Biden supporters would continue to make the case that he is electable against Trump.
“Electability in the general election, that’s what we’re talking about when we say electability,” he said . “When we say he’s electable in the general election, we’re not saying he’s going to win every state in the caucus and primary system.”
Matt Viser
February 2, (at) : AM EST
Trump and Bloomberg trade insults
Even though billionaire Mike Bloomberg is not competing in Iowa, Trump has fixated on the candidate recently, tweeting about him multiple times over the weekend and insulting the former New York mayor on Fox News.
In an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, to air in full during the Super Bowl pregame show, Trump zeroed in on Bloomberg’s height when asked what he thought of the candidate.
“Uh, very little. I just think of little, ”Trump told Hannity. “You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on. Okay, it’s okay, there’s nothing wrong. You can be short. Why should he get a box to stand on, okay? He wants a box for the debates. Why should he be entitled to that? Really. Does that mean everyone else gets a box? ”
(There is no evidence Bloomberg, who has not qualified for any of the Democratic primary debates thus far, has made such a request. )
Trump added that he “would love to run against Bloomberg.”
On Sunday, Bloomberg spokeswoman Julie Wood issued a statement pushing back on Trump’s insults with some of his own.
“The president is lying,” the statement read. “He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan.”
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at) : AM EST
Trump and Bloomberg trade insults
Even though billionaire Mike Bloomberg is not competing in Iowa, Trump has fixated on the candidate recently, tweeting about him multiple times over the weekend and insulting the former New York mayor on Fox News.
In an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, to air in full during the Super Bowl pregame show, Trump zeroed in on Bloomberg’s height when asked what he thought of the candidate.
“Uh, very little. I just think of little, ”Trump told Hannity. “You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on. Okay, it’s okay, there’s nothing wrong. You can be short. Why should he get a box to stand on, okay? He wants a box for the debates. Why should he be entitled to that? Really. Does that mean everyone else gets a box? ”
(There is no evidence Bloomberg, who has not qualified for any of the Democratic primary debates thus far, has made such a request. )
Trump added that he “would love to run against Bloomberg.”
On Sunday, Bloomberg spokeswoman Julie Wood issued a statement pushing back on Trump’s insults with some of his own.
“The president is lying,” the statement read. “He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan.”
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at) : AM EST
Trump and Bloomberg trade insults
Even though billionaire Mike Bloomberg is not competing in Iowa, Trump has fixated on the candidate recently, tweeting about him multiple times over the weekend and insulting the former New York mayor on Fox News.
In an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, to air in full during the Super Bowl pregame show, Trump zeroed in on Bloomberg’s height when asked what he thought of the candidate.
“Uh, very little. I just think of little, ”Trump told Hannity. “You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on. Okay, it’s okay, there’s nothing wrong. You can be short. Why should he get a box to stand on, okay? He wants a box for the debates. Why should he be entitled to that? Really. Does that mean everyone else gets a box? ”
(There is no evidence Bloomberg, who has not qualified for any of the Democratic primary debates thus far, has made such a request. )
Trump added that he “would love to run against Bloomberg.”
On Sunday, Bloomberg spokeswoman Julie Wood issued a statement pushing back on Trump’s insults with some of his own.
“The president is lying,” the statement read. “He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan.”
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at) : AM EST
Trump and Bloomberg trade insults
Even though billionaire Mike Bloomberg is not competing in Iowa, Trump has fixated on the candidate recently, tweeting about him multiple times over the weekend and insulting the former New York mayor on Fox News.
In an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, to air in full during the Super Bowl pregame show, Trump zeroed in on Bloomberg’s height when asked what he thought of the candidate.
“Uh, very little. I just think of little, ”Trump told Hannity. “You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on. Okay, it’s okay, there’s nothing wrong. You can be short. Why should he get a box to stand on, okay? He wants a box for the debates. Why should he be entitled to that? Really. Does that mean everyone else gets a box? ”
(There is no evidence Bloomberg, who has not qualified for any of the Democratic primary debates thus far, has made such a request. )
Trump added that he “would love to run against Bloomberg.”
On Sunday, Bloomberg spokeswoman Julie Wood issued a statement pushing back on Trump’s insults with some of his own.
“The president is lying,” the statement read. “He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan.”
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at) : AM EST
On the morning shows, candidates stick to their talking points
On the Sunday shows this morning, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Yang largely declined to take big swings, instead sticking to talking points.
Buttigieg continued to sell himself as a unity candidate. When asked about Sanders on CNN, he said this election shouldn’t be a choice between “status quo” and “revolution,” because that “leaves most Americans out.”
“ We have a chance to energize a powerful majority. We can’t afford to polarize it at a moment like this, ”he said.
On ‘Meet the Press,’ he declined to criticize Hillary Clinton for her recent attacks on Sanders , saying “I’m not going to tell her or anybody else what to do.”
On ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked Yang who his supporters might back if Yang does meet the percent threshhold for delegates on caucus night.
“Many of them have supported Bernie in the past,” Yang said. But others, he said “supported President Trump and they might just leave.”
Yang also predicted a strong finish out of Iowa, where he is consistently polling in the single digits. “We think we’re going to surprise a lot of people on Monday night, George, and we’ve got a ton of support in New Hampshire,” he said.
(
Amanda Erickson
February 2,
(at : AM EST
New poll shows top Democrats beating Trump
Biden vs. Trump: (% to) %
Sanders vs. Trump: (% to) %
Warren vs. Trump: 53% vs. %
Buttigieg vs. . Trump: 49% vs. %
The poll has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
Several Democratic candidates have touted various head-to-head polls that show they would have some kind of advantage over Trump in the general election. Sanders last summer began rolling out “Bernie Beats Trump” messaging. In recent weeks, Buttigieg has sent out fundraising emails that highlight hypothetical match-ups against Trump – even ones that showed him a statistical tie with the president.
And Biden has long focused his campaign speeches on an eventual contest with Trump, saying he would “beat him like a drum.”
(By
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at 9:) AM EST
How impeachment will shape (for Democrats – and for Trump
The opening of the political year has collid ed with the end of the impeachment of President Trump. The coincidence of timing, unplanned perhaps but symbolic nonetheless, points directly to what is at stake when Americans vote in November. For now, healing is not on the agenda.
Impeachment is an infrequently used tool to restrain a runaway or corrupt president. On Wednesday, Trump will become the third president to be acquitted after being impeached. No president has ever been impeached and convicted, though, of course, Richard M. Nixon resigned and left town to avoid such a fate.
Trump will never escape the fact of having been impeached, but he will, no doubt, see acquittal as a victory. His supporters will share in that conclusion, offended that it ever came to this. Half of the country, however, that portion of the population that has said in polls they believe Trump should be removed from office for abusing his powers, will be at a minimum disappointed. Many of them will be genuinely angry.
That is the pretext for this election year. For both sides, November will offer the only avenue to resolve the question of how long Trump remains in office and what boundaries the American people choose to set on a presidency. There is no more significant question facing voters, and they are sharply divided in their views.
By Dan Balz
February 2, (at 8: (AM EST
Candidates criss-cross Iowa for last-minute campaign events
It’s Caucus Eve!
After months of campaigning, it’s come down to this: Sunday is the last full day candidates will spend in Iowa before the state’s caucuses begin Monday evening. Here’s where they will be throughout the day:
– Biden is making stops in Dubuque and Des Moines.
– Sanders will hold “Meet and greets” at several of his field offices – including Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Newton – before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Des Moines.
– Warren will hold rallies in Indianola and Ames, alongside her husband, Bruce Mann, and their golden retriever, Bailey.
– In addition to making the rounds on four Sunday morning political talk shows, Buttigieg will make stops in Coralville and Des Moines.
– Klobuchar will appear on “Fox News Sunday,” then hold get-out-the-caucus events in Decorah and Mason City, before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Johnston.
– Yang will appear on ABC’s “This Week” and then make stops at canvass launches in Ames, Mason City, Cresco, Decorah and Waterloo.
For several of the top candidates, time is of the essence. On Monday, Klobuchar, Sanders and Warren will need to return to Washington to continue Senate impeachment proceedings. (Bennet, the fourth senator-candidate who remains in the race, is campaigning in New Hampshire this weekend.)
By
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at 8: AM EST
This Iowa voter fell in love with Cory Booker. Now he’s out of the race, and she’s lost.
) DES MOINES – Since this past summer, Nancy Bobo has spent most of her waking hours trying to help Sen. Cory Booker win the presidency.
The veteran Democratic activist had knocked on as many as doors a week, sometimes more , trying to drum up support for the senator from New Jersey. She spent her nights making phone calls, hundreds of them over the months, to friends and strangers, saying that Booker was the one who could beat President Trump, the one who could bring a divided nation together. Anything she could do, she did.
Bobo had come to know Booker’s personal story so well that she once jumped onstage at an event in the fall, taking the microphone away from the astonished candidate to deliver a more forceful pitch for his candidacy. “You’re just too modest,” she told Booker, who laughed.
She had stayed loyal through it all: the lousy poll numbers, the fundraising troubles. When Booker delivered a fiery speech here in December, decrying the party’s qualification rules that would block him from that month’s debate, she sat near the front, her face stricken with emotion at the senator’s soaring oratory and promises to lead with hope and love. “How can you listen to him and not be moved deep in your soul?” She said afterward.
And then, it was over.
On Jan. , less than a month before the Monday’s caucuses, Booker suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination, citing money and the looming logistical issues of the impeachment trial. Booker, who was so personally close to Bobo that he had stayed at her house in Des Moines, called her that morning, thanking her for her support and urging her to fight on, to look for another contender to support. And Bobo agreed, but what do you do when you fall in love with a candidate who doesn’t go the distance?
“It’s been a tough couple of weeks for me,” Bobo said Friday, on the eve of the final weekend before the caucuses. “I continue to pay attention. I’ve gone to a few events. I do know the need to elect a Democratic president in November. My spirit just isn’t there. … The wind is out of my sail. ”
By (Holly Bailey)
February 2, (at 7: AM EST
Bloomberg and Trump to air Super Bowl ads
As the candidates criss-cross. Iowa on Sunday for last-minute campaign events, they will be competing for attention with Super Bowl LIV.
Bloomberg’s 72 – second spot, “
(George , ”focuses on gun violence and features a Houston mother talking about the 3444 death of her son, George Kemp Jr., who dreamt of playing in the NFL but was fatally shot at age 25.
“How unusual is it for a contender for a presidential candidate to drop so much cash on a single ad?” Ask the directors of the Wesleyan Media Project , a group that analyzes political advertising. “Very.”
February 2, (at) : AM EST
On the morning shows, candidates stick to their talking points
On the Sunday shows this morning, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Yang largely declined to take big swings, instead sticking to talking points.
Buttigieg continued to sell himself as a unity candidate. When asked about Sanders on CNN, he said this election shouldn’t be a choice between “status quo” and “revolution,” because that “leaves most Americans out.”
“ We have a chance to energize a powerful majority. We can’t afford to polarize it at a moment like this, ”he said.
On ‘Meet the Press,’ he declined to criticize Hillary Clinton for her recent attacks on Sanders , saying “I’m not going to tell her or anybody else what to do.”
On ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked Yang who his supporters might back if Yang does meet the percent threshhold for delegates on caucus night.
“Many of them have supported Bernie in the past,” Yang said. But others, he said “supported President Trump and they might just leave.”
Yang also predicted a strong finish out of Iowa, where he is consistently polling in the single digits. “We think we’re going to surprise a lot of people on Monday night, George, and we’ve got a ton of support in New Hampshire,” he said.
(
Amanda Erickson
February 2,
(at : AM EST
New poll shows top Democrats beating Trump
Biden vs. Trump: (% to) %
Sanders vs. Trump: (% to) %
Warren vs. Trump: 53% vs. %
Buttigieg vs. . Trump: 49% vs. %
The poll has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
Several Democratic candidates have touted various head-to-head polls that show they would have some kind of advantage over Trump in the general election. Sanders last summer began rolling out “Bernie Beats Trump” messaging. In recent weeks, Buttigieg has sent out fundraising emails that highlight hypothetical match-ups against Trump – even ones that showed him a statistical tie with the president.
And Biden has long focused his campaign speeches on an eventual contest with Trump, saying he would “beat him like a drum.”
(By
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at 9:) AM EST
How impeachment will shape (for Democrats – and for Trump
The opening of the political year has collid ed with the end of the impeachment of President Trump. The coincidence of timing, unplanned perhaps but symbolic nonetheless, points directly to what is at stake when Americans vote in November. For now, healing is not on the agenda.
Impeachment is an infrequently used tool to restrain a runaway or corrupt president. On Wednesday, Trump will become the third president to be acquitted after being impeached. No president has ever been impeached and convicted, though, of course, Richard M. Nixon resigned and left town to avoid such a fate.
Trump will never escape the fact of having been impeached, but he will, no doubt, see acquittal as a victory. His supporters will share in that conclusion, offended that it ever came to this. Half of the country, however, that portion of the population that has said in polls they believe Trump should be removed from office for abusing his powers, will be at a minimum disappointed. Many of them will be genuinely angry.
That is the pretext for this election year. For both sides, November will offer the only avenue to resolve the question of how long Trump remains in office and what boundaries the American people choose to set on a presidency. There is no more significant question facing voters, and they are sharply divided in their views.
By Dan Balz
February 2, (at 8: (AM EST
Candidates criss-cross Iowa for last-minute campaign events
It’s Caucus Eve!
After months of campaigning, it’s come down to this: Sunday is the last full day candidates will spend in Iowa before the state’s caucuses begin Monday evening. Here’s where they will be throughout the day:
– Biden is making stops in Dubuque and Des Moines.
– Sanders will hold “Meet and greets” at several of his field offices – including Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Newton – before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Des Moines.
– Warren will hold rallies in Indianola and Ames, alongside her husband, Bruce Mann, and their golden retriever, Bailey.
– In addition to making the rounds on four Sunday morning political talk shows, Buttigieg will make stops in Coralville and Des Moines.
– Klobuchar will appear on “Fox News Sunday,” then hold get-out-the-caucus events in Decorah and Mason City, before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Johnston.
– Yang will appear on ABC’s “This Week” and then make stops at canvass launches in Ames, Mason City, Cresco, Decorah and Waterloo.
For several of the top candidates, time is of the essence. On Monday, Klobuchar, Sanders and Warren will need to return to Washington to continue Senate impeachment proceedings. (Bennet, the fourth senator-candidate who remains in the race, is campaigning in New Hampshire this weekend.)
By
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at 8: AM EST
This Iowa voter fell in love with Cory Booker. Now he’s out of the race, and she’s lost.
) DES MOINES – Since this past summer, Nancy Bobo has spent most of her waking hours trying to help Sen. Cory Booker win the presidency.
The veteran Democratic activist had knocked on as many as doors a week, sometimes more , trying to drum up support for the senator from New Jersey. She spent her nights making phone calls, hundreds of them over the months, to friends and strangers, saying that Booker was the one who could beat President Trump, the one who could bring a divided nation together. Anything she could do, she did.
Bobo had come to know Booker’s personal story so well that she once jumped onstage at an event in the fall, taking the microphone away from the astonished candidate to deliver a more forceful pitch for his candidacy. “You’re just too modest,” she told Booker, who laughed.
She had stayed loyal through it all: the lousy poll numbers, the fundraising troubles. When Booker delivered a fiery speech here in December, decrying the party’s qualification rules that would block him from that month’s debate, she sat near the front, her face stricken with emotion at the senator’s soaring oratory and promises to lead with hope and love. “How can you listen to him and not be moved deep in your soul?” She said afterward.
And then, it was over.
On Jan. , less than a month before the Monday’s caucuses, Booker suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination, citing money and the looming logistical issues of the impeachment trial. Booker, who was so personally close to Bobo that he had stayed at her house in Des Moines, called her that morning, thanking her for her support and urging her to fight on, to look for another contender to support. And Bobo agreed, but what do you do when you fall in love with a candidate who doesn’t go the distance?
“It’s been a tough couple of weeks for me,” Bobo said Friday, on the eve of the final weekend before the caucuses. “I continue to pay attention. I’ve gone to a few events. I do know the need to elect a Democratic president in November. My spirit just isn’t there. … The wind is out of my sail. ”
By (Holly Bailey)
February 2, (at 7: AM EST
Bloomberg and Trump to air Super Bowl ads
As the candidates criss-cross. Iowa on Sunday for last-minute campaign events, they will be competing for attention with Super Bowl LIV.
Bloomberg’s 72 – second spot, “
(George , ”focuses on gun violence and features a Houston mother talking about the 3444 death of her son, George Kemp Jr., who dreamt of playing in the NFL but was fatally shot at age 25.
“How unusual is it for a contender for a presidential candidate to drop so much cash on a single ad?” Ask the directors of the Wesleyan Media Project , a group that analyzes political advertising. “Very.”
(at : AM EST
New poll shows top Democrats beating Trump
Biden vs. Trump: (% to) %
Sanders vs. Trump: (% to) %
Warren vs. Trump: 53% vs. %
Buttigieg vs. . Trump: 49% vs. %
The poll has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
(By
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at 9:) AM EST
How impeachment will shape (for Democrats – and for Trump
The opening of the political year has collid ed with the end of the impeachment of President Trump. The coincidence of timing, unplanned perhaps but symbolic nonetheless, points directly to what is at stake when Americans vote in November. For now, healing is not on the agenda.
Impeachment is an infrequently used tool to restrain a runaway or corrupt president. On Wednesday, Trump will become the third president to be acquitted after being impeached. No president has ever been impeached and convicted, though, of course, Richard M. Nixon resigned and left town to avoid such a fate.
Trump will never escape the fact of having been impeached, but he will, no doubt, see acquittal as a victory. His supporters will share in that conclusion, offended that it ever came to this. Half of the country, however, that portion of the population that has said in polls they believe Trump should be removed from office for abusing his powers, will be at a minimum disappointed. Many of them will be genuinely angry.
That is the pretext for this election year. For both sides, November will offer the only avenue to resolve the question of how long Trump remains in office and what boundaries the American people choose to set on a presidency. There is no more significant question facing voters, and they are sharply divided in their views.
By Dan Balz
February 2, (at 8: (AM EST
Candidates criss-cross Iowa for last-minute campaign events
It’s Caucus Eve!
After months of campaigning, it’s come down to this: Sunday is the last full day candidates will spend in Iowa before the state’s caucuses begin Monday evening. Here’s where they will be throughout the day:
– Biden is making stops in Dubuque and Des Moines.
– Sanders will hold “Meet and greets” at several of his field offices – including Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Newton – before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Des Moines.
– Warren will hold rallies in Indianola and Ames, alongside her husband, Bruce Mann, and their golden retriever, Bailey.
– In addition to making the rounds on four Sunday morning political talk shows, Buttigieg will make stops in Coralville and Des Moines.
– Klobuchar will appear on “Fox News Sunday,” then hold get-out-the-caucus events in Decorah and Mason City, before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Johnston.
– Yang will appear on ABC’s “This Week” and then make stops at canvass launches in Ames, Mason City, Cresco, Decorah and Waterloo.
For several of the top candidates, time is of the essence. On Monday, Klobuchar, Sanders and Warren will need to return to Washington to continue Senate impeachment proceedings. (Bennet, the fourth senator-candidate who remains in the race, is campaigning in New Hampshire this weekend.)
By
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at 8: AM EST
This Iowa voter fell in love with Cory Booker. Now he’s out of the race, and she’s lost.
) DES MOINES – Since this past summer, Nancy Bobo has spent most of her waking hours trying to help Sen. Cory Booker win the presidency.
The veteran Democratic activist had knocked on as many as doors a week, sometimes more , trying to drum up support for the senator from New Jersey. She spent her nights making phone calls, hundreds of them over the months, to friends and strangers, saying that Booker was the one who could beat President Trump, the one who could bring a divided nation together. Anything she could do, she did.
Bobo had come to know Booker’s personal story so well that she once jumped onstage at an event in the fall, taking the microphone away from the astonished candidate to deliver a more forceful pitch for his candidacy. “You’re just too modest,” she told Booker, who laughed.
She had stayed loyal through it all: the lousy poll numbers, the fundraising troubles. When Booker delivered a fiery speech here in December, decrying the party’s qualification rules that would block him from that month’s debate, she sat near the front, her face stricken with emotion at the senator’s soaring oratory and promises to lead with hope and love. “How can you listen to him and not be moved deep in your soul?” She said afterward.
And then, it was over.
On Jan. , less than a month before the Monday’s caucuses, Booker suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination, citing money and the looming logistical issues of the impeachment trial. Booker, who was so personally close to Bobo that he had stayed at her house in Des Moines, called her that morning, thanking her for her support and urging her to fight on, to look for another contender to support. And Bobo agreed, but what do you do when you fall in love with a candidate who doesn’t go the distance?
“It’s been a tough couple of weeks for me,” Bobo said Friday, on the eve of the final weekend before the caucuses. “I continue to pay attention. I’ve gone to a few events. I do know the need to elect a Democratic president in November. My spirit just isn’t there. … The wind is out of my sail. ”
By (Holly Bailey)
February 2, (at 7: AM EST
Bloomberg and Trump to air Super Bowl ads
As the candidates criss-cross. Iowa on Sunday for last-minute campaign events, they will be competing for attention with Super Bowl LIV.
Bloomberg’s 72 – second spot, “
(George , ”focuses on gun violence and features a Houston mother talking about the 3444 death of her son, George Kemp Jr., who dreamt of playing in the NFL but was fatally shot at age 25.
“How unusual is it for a contender for a presidential candidate to drop so much cash on a single ad?” Ask the directors of the Wesleyan Media Project , a group that analyzes political advertising. “Very.”
February 2, (at 9:) AM EST
How impeachment will shape (for Democrats – and for Trump
The opening of the political year has collid ed with the end of the impeachment of President Trump. The coincidence of timing, unplanned perhaps but symbolic nonetheless, points directly to what is at stake when Americans vote in November. For now, healing is not on the agenda.
Impeachment is an infrequently used tool to restrain a runaway or corrupt president. On Wednesday, Trump will become the third president to be acquitted after being impeached. No president has ever been impeached and convicted, though, of course, Richard M. Nixon resigned and left town to avoid such a fate.
Trump will never escape the fact of having been impeached, but he will, no doubt, see acquittal as a victory. His supporters will share in that conclusion, offended that it ever came to this. Half of the country, however, that portion of the population that has said in polls they believe Trump should be removed from office for abusing his powers, will be at a minimum disappointed. Many of them will be genuinely angry.
That is the pretext for this election year. For both sides, November will offer the only avenue to resolve the question of how long Trump remains in office and what boundaries the American people choose to set on a presidency. There is no more significant question facing voters, and they are sharply divided in their views.
February 2, (at 9:) AM EST
The opening of the political year has collid ed with the end of the impeachment of President Trump. The coincidence of timing, unplanned perhaps but symbolic nonetheless, points directly to what is at stake when Americans vote in November. For now, healing is not on the agenda.
Impeachment is an infrequently used tool to restrain a runaway or corrupt president. On Wednesday, Trump will become the third president to be acquitted after being impeached. No president has ever been impeached and convicted, though, of course, Richard M. Nixon resigned and left town to avoid such a fate.
Trump will never escape the fact of having been impeached, but he will, no doubt, see acquittal as a victory. His supporters will share in that conclusion, offended that it ever came to this. Half of the country, however, that portion of the population that has said in polls they believe Trump should be removed from office for abusing his powers, will be at a minimum disappointed. Many of them will be genuinely angry.
That is the pretext for this election year. For both sides, November will offer the only avenue to resolve the question of how long Trump remains in office and what boundaries the American people choose to set on a presidency. There is no more significant question facing voters, and they are sharply divided in their views.
February 2, (at 8: (AM EST
Candidates criss-cross Iowa for last-minute campaign events
It’s Caucus Eve!
After months of campaigning, it’s come down to this: Sunday is the last full day candidates will spend in Iowa before the state’s caucuses begin Monday evening. Here’s where they will be throughout the day:
– Biden is making stops in Dubuque and Des Moines.
– Sanders will hold “Meet and greets” at several of his field offices – including Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Newton – before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Des Moines.
– Warren will hold rallies in Indianola and Ames, alongside her husband, Bruce Mann, and their golden retriever, Bailey.
– In addition to making the rounds on four Sunday morning political talk shows, Buttigieg will make stops in Coralville and Des Moines.
– Klobuchar will appear on “Fox News Sunday,” then hold get-out-the-caucus events in Decorah and Mason City, before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Johnston.
– Yang will appear on ABC’s “This Week” and then make stops at canvass launches in Ames, Mason City, Cresco, Decorah and Waterloo.
For several of the top candidates, time is of the essence. On Monday, Klobuchar, Sanders and Warren will need to return to Washington to continue Senate impeachment proceedings. (Bennet, the fourth senator-candidate who remains in the race, is campaigning in New Hampshire this weekend.)
By
Amy B Wang
It’s Caucus Eve!
After months of campaigning, it’s come down to this: Sunday is the last full day candidates will spend in Iowa before the state’s caucuses begin Monday evening. Here’s where they will be throughout the day:
– Biden is making stops in Dubuque and Des Moines.
– Sanders will hold “Meet and greets” at several of his field offices – including Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Newton – before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Des Moines.
– Warren will hold rallies in Indianola and Ames, alongside her husband, Bruce Mann, and their golden retriever, Bailey.
– In addition to making the rounds on four Sunday morning political talk shows, Buttigieg will make stops in Coralville and Des Moines.
– Klobuchar will appear on “Fox News Sunday,” then hold get-out-the-caucus events in Decorah and Mason City, before hosting a Super Bowl watch party in Johnston.
– Yang will appear on ABC’s “This Week” and then make stops at canvass launches in Ames, Mason City, Cresco, Decorah and Waterloo.
For several of the top candidates, time is of the essence. On Monday, Klobuchar, Sanders and Warren will need to return to Washington to continue Senate impeachment proceedings. (Bennet, the fourth senator-candidate who remains in the race, is campaigning in New Hampshire this weekend.)
Amy B Wang
February 2, (at 8: AM EST
This Iowa voter fell in love with Cory Booker. Now he’s out of the race, and she’s lost.
) DES MOINES – Since this past summer, Nancy Bobo has spent most of her waking hours trying to help Sen. Cory Booker win the presidency.
The veteran Democratic activist had knocked on as many as doors a week, sometimes more , trying to drum up support for the senator from New Jersey. She spent her nights making phone calls, hundreds of them over the months, to friends and strangers, saying that Booker was the one who could beat President Trump, the one who could bring a divided nation together. Anything she could do, she did.
Bobo had come to know Booker’s personal story so well that she once jumped onstage at an event in the fall, taking the microphone away from the astonished candidate to deliver a more forceful pitch for his candidacy. “You’re just too modest,” she told Booker, who laughed.
She had stayed loyal through it all: the lousy poll numbers, the fundraising troubles. When Booker delivered a fiery speech here in December, decrying the party’s qualification rules that would block him from that month’s debate, she sat near the front, her face stricken with emotion at the senator’s soaring oratory and promises to lead with hope and love. “How can you listen to him and not be moved deep in your soul?” She said afterward.
And then, it was over.
On Jan. , less than a month before the Monday’s caucuses, Booker suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination, citing money and the looming logistical issues of the impeachment trial. Booker, who was so personally close to Bobo that he had stayed at her house in Des Moines, called her that morning, thanking her for her support and urging her to fight on, to look for another contender to support. And Bobo agreed, but what do you do when you fall in love with a candidate who doesn’t go the distance?
“It’s been a tough couple of weeks for me,” Bobo said Friday, on the eve of the final weekend before the caucuses. “I continue to pay attention. I’ve gone to a few events. I do know the need to elect a Democratic president in November. My spirit just isn’t there. … The wind is out of my sail. ”
February 2, (at 7: AM EST
Bloomberg and Trump to air Super Bowl ads
As the candidates criss-cross. Iowa on Sunday for last-minute campaign events, they will be competing for attention with Super Bowl LIV.
Bloomberg’s 72 – second spot, “
(George , ”focuses on gun violence and features a Houston mother talking about the 3444 death of her son, George Kemp Jr., who dreamt of playing in the NFL but was fatally shot at age 25.
“How unusual is it for a contender for a presidential candidate to drop so much cash on a single ad?” Ask the directors of the Wesleyan Media Project , a group that analyzes political advertising. “Very.”
As the candidates criss-cross. Iowa on Sunday for last-minute campaign events, they will be competing for attention with Super Bowl LIV.
Bloomberg’s 72 – second spot, “
“How unusual is it for a contender for a presidential candidate to drop so much cash on a single ad?” Ask the directors of the Wesleyan Media Project , a group that analyzes political advertising. “Very.”
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