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Tanner Halleran is the chair of Keokuk County Democrats and an Iowa Caucus Project staffer. He has not endorsed a candidate in the 2020 Democratic race for president and does not intend to. He was asked to introduce Sen. Klobuchar as the chair of Keokuk County Democrats.  SIGOURNEY, Iowa — On Friday, October 18th, U.S. […]

It’s a big week for the 2020 Democratic contest. In the followup of the fourth Democratic Debate – the first of the debates to be held on one single stage – a creeping number of endorsements for presidential candidates have been given by big wigs in the party.  The big endorsement from this week? Freshman […]

  Iowa Caucus Project staffer Runal A. Patel talked with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms about Joe Biden, the Caucus, and Iowa.   Music from filmmusic.io: “Cheery Monday” by Kevin Macleod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday//)Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

You just arrived in Iowa. Welcome. Maybe you’re a campaign staffer, or a journalist, or someone else taking advantage of the first-in-the-nation caucuses. Maybe you’ve been here before, maybe you were a temporary Midwest escapee, or maybe you just learned how to pronounce Des Moines two days ago (please don’t pronounce the “s”). We’re not […]

CLIVE, Iowa — The fourth Democratic debate between the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls took place on October 15th and featured the most candidates on a debate stage in presidential primary history. This debate gave lesser-known candidates an opportunity to demonstrate why they deserve to stay in the race for the Democratic nomination—one of those candidates […]

Over the past two weeks, I was able to spend an extensive amount of time on the East Coast. It was a bit of a back-and-forth trip as I spent five days in New York, three in Des Moines for classes, and four in Boston. I went to, and experienced, all the tourist attractions, including […]

The fourth Democratic debate took place this past week. As always, the candidates spent their time during the debate attacking President Trump, attacking each other, and trying to get their ideas heard regardless of what the questions were. The thing that caught my attention the most while watching, as well as the attention of many […]

DES MOINES, Iowa — Our photos from the Warren event at Drake University on October 20th, shot by staffer Avery VanDenBerg. Around 1200 were in attendance.

SHELDON, Iowa — Over fall break, I went home to my small town in northwest Iowa. Sheldon is home to about 5,000 people, located in O’Brien County and situated thirty minutes from the Minnesota border and forty-five minutes from the South Dakota border. Growing up in the corner of the state, I noticed that the […]

DES MOINES, Iowa — It was the Thursday before Drake University’s fall break– an odd four day weekend where many students abandon Des Moines for a quick visit home. This year, I decided to stay in town. I was hoping to spend my weekend with friends, curled up in a blanket and catching up on […]