Seth McLaughlin

Biden support slides among black voters: national poll

Joseph R. Biden's support among black voters has slipped since last year, signaling more potential trouble for the former vice president's sputtering 2020 campaign.

February 10, 2020

Pete Buttigieg leads initial Iowa tally; Bernie Sanders second, Joe Biden fourth

The political circus in Iowa inched closer to a belated conclusion Tuesday after the Democratic Party rolled out a "majority" of initial caucus results showing former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg leading the pack, followed by Sen. Bernard Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

February 4, 2020

Bernie Sanders: ‘Unfair’ to question pending Iowa results

Sen. Bernard Sanders on Tuesday pushed back against attempts to cast doubt on the pending results out of Iowa, saying it is "unfair" for his rivals to try to do so.

February 4, 2020

Hillary Clinton alums developed faulty Iowa caucus app

The company behind the app that led to the delay in reporting caucus results in Iowa was established by alums of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

February 4, 2020

Bret Nilles, Iowa Democratic county chair: Reporting mess a ‘black mark’ against caucuses

Bret Nilles, chair of the Linn County Iowa Democrats, felt as though things were going smoothly in the caucuses Monday night after reporting out the results from his precinct without any issues about 90 minutes after it began.

February 4, 2020

Iowa Democrats say ‘coding’ error led to caucus reporting debacle

The chair of the Iowa Democrats said Tuesday the caucus reporting system broke down after a "coding issue" led to inconsistencies in counts and forced the data that was coming in from the more than 1,600 precincts to be logged in manually.

February 4, 2020

Hillary-Bernie battle behind caucus change, reporting mess

For the first time in the history of the Iowa caucuses the state Democratic Party planned to release the raw vote totals for each of the presidential contenders -- in addition to the final delegate count that traditionally is reported -- all in the name of transparency.

February 4, 2020

Iowa chaos: Democrats undone by reporting fiasco; Buttigieg declares victory, Bernie counters

The biggest news out of Iowa on Monday was that there wasn't any news about who actually won the caucuses thanks to reporting mishaps that threw the race into a state of chaos.

February 4, 2020

Bernie Sanders predicts he did ‘very, very well’ in Iowa caucuses

Sen. Bernard Sanders struck an optimistic note Monday night, predicting that once the final results out of the Iowa caucuses will show he has performed "very, very, well" in the state.

February 4, 2020

Democrats’ botched Iowa reporting likely to reduce bump from caucus win

The Iowa Democratic Party's botched reporting of the caucus results Monday night was casting doubts over the impact the final results will have on the nomination race.

February 3, 2020

‘Quality checks’ delay Iowa caucus results

The Iowa State Democratic Party was slow to release the results Monday night, sparking fears of a major snafu in the tabulations and possibly casting doubt on the outcome.

February 3, 2020

Bernie Sanders: Bad omen in Des Moines suburbs?

Sen. Bernard Sanders' surge in the polls didn't translate into success here at this caucus site in the booming Des Moines suburbs.

February 3, 2020

Iowa caucuses entrance poll: Voters prioritize beating Trump

The voters that turned out Monday for the Iowa caucuses were more interested in nominating a candidate who can beat President Trump than they are in tapping someone who shares their views on the issues, according to an NBC News entrance poll.

February 3, 2020

Iowa Democrats go to caucuses fretting their choice won’t beat Trump

Iowa Democrats made the quadrennial pilgrimage to their state's first-in-the-nation caucuses Monday, kicking off the 2020 presidential nomination race dogged by fears that they will make the wrong pick.

February 3, 2020

Bernie Sanders supporters blast DNC for debate rule changes

The closer the Democratic presidential race gets to the first votes of 2020 being cast here in the Iowa caucuses, the more the ghosts of the 2016 primary haunt the party.

February 2, 2020

Elizabeth Warren, 2020 Democrats make final push in Iowa

The stars of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination race spent their final full day of pre-caucus campaigning crisscrossing Iowa and delivering closing arguments that they hope will resonate enough to earn them one of the fabled "three tickets" out of the state

February 2, 2020

Sanders backers feel momentum in Iowa: ‘It feels like he can actually win’

On the hunt for voters, Julia Caldwell fiddled with the broken call box here outside a gated three-story brick apartment complex and joked about her next move.

February 1, 2020

DNC overhauls debate criteria

The Democratic National Committee has switched up the qualifications needed to participate in the presidential debate in Las Vegas next month, opening the door for former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to get a spot on stage.

January 31, 2020

Warren, Sanders, Biden tout vision for 2020 in Iowa campaign ads

Sen. Bernard Sanders likens his bold vision to President John F. Kennedy's push to put a man on the moon.

January 30, 2020

Biden: Trump is more George Wallace than George Washington

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden used President Trump's planned visit to Iowa to draw a pointed contrast with the Republican commander-in-chief's character and to drive home his closing argument: Mr. Trump and his inner circle are terrified of squaring off with him in the 2020 general election.

January 30, 2020