Items Tagged with 'Iowa caucuses'

Former President Donald Trump ran up his historic margin in the Iowa caucuses by maintaining his dominance with rural voters despite his challengers’ pledges to expand biofuel usage and roll back the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda.

Republican presidential hopefuls are ramping up their visits to Iowa as they seek to win over the ag-heavy state ahead of its Jan. 15 caucus.

Ethanol, trade and America's relationship with China are a few of the topics Republican presidential candidates have been talking with Iowans about as they barnstorm the state in preparation for the state’s Jan. 15 caucuses.

Democratic Party leaders are considering downgrading Iowa’s outsized role in the presidential nominating process, which has long forced candidates to pay far more attention to farm and biofuel policy than they otherwise would.

A disappointing turnout and the Iowa Democratic Party’s historic debacle in counting the results of the 2020 caucuses are fueling calls to scrap the state’s first-in-the-nation status, which for decades has guaranteed a prominent place for agriculture and biofuel policy in national politics.

Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a two-term governor of Iowa who now leads the dairy industry's export efforts, on Saturday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president.

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has a message for her fellow Democratic candidates trying to crack President Donald Trump's hold on rural voters: They need more than “a bunch of policies on a piece of paper."