
An enthusiastic flag-waving crowd of 2,600 endured freezing 30 degree weather to hear the 63-year old Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, encourage Christians to engage in the political process by voting and running for office in 2016.
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 Jan 2016, 4:20 PM PST0

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has taken a commanding 10-point lead over billionaire businessman Donald Trump in the all-important first-in-the-nation presidential caucus state of Iowa, a new poll from the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg shows.
by Matthew Boyle12 Dec 2015, 3:48 PM PST0

A couple weeks ago, billionaire real estate mogul and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump—the clear Republican frontrunner—stood alone in hammering the Des Moines Register. Now the official Iowa Republican Party is joining him in ripping the state’s biggest newspaper.
by Matthew Boyle3 Aug 2015, 11:38 AM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump attacked the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, calling her email practices during her time as Secretary of State “criminal.”
by Alex Swoyer26 Jul 2015, 1:22 PM PST0

After The Des Moines Register published a scathing editorial calling real estate billionaire Donald Trump a “feckless blowhard” who should drop out of the race, the GOP frontrunner banned the paper from an Iowa campaign event.
by Katie McHugh25 Jul 2015, 2:18 PM PST0

Republicans in Iowa are calling for “candidates and potential candidates” to participate in the state’s straw poll.
by Alex Swoyer1 Jun 2015, 12:09 PM PST0

Roughly 66 percent of likely Democratic caucus goers say one of the scandals looming over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign could hurt her if she were to become the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 2016 general election.
by Alex Swoyer1 Jun 2015, 11:53 AM PST0