Grassley, Blum, Young Avoid Photo-Op with Trump at Ernst’s Roast and Ride
The last time Donald Trump campaigned in Des Moines, 3rd District Congressman David Young reportedly avoided the spectacle to campaign for re-election at a...
The Trumpstad Report: Death Penalty for Juveniles
Part of a series on the ties that bind Iowa’s governor and the GOP presidential nominee.
Donald Trump made a blunt appeal to African American...
Bernie Sanders’ New Political Group Endorses Iowa Dems Kroeger, Meyer, Kacena
In an effort to build on the movement he inspired during his run for president, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday launched Our Revolution,...
#NeverTrump and #NeverHillary? Here Are Some Alternatives
Not sold on choosing between a presidential candidate who’s cozy with Wall Street and pals with a war criminal or her egomaniacal chief rival...
ISU Prez Leath Dismisses Rastetter Land Deal, No-Search Hires As Non-Stories
Iowa State University President Steven Leath met Wednesday with members of the Iowa State Daily editorial board to field the student journalists' questions ahead...
The Trumpstad Report: Roger Ailes
Earlier this month at a Donald Trump rally, Gov. Terry Branstad told the Informer he sympathized with a chant of “lock her up!” that...
Trump To Headline Joni Ernst’s Roast and Ride
Donald Trump will headline Sen. Joni Ernst's second annual Roast and Ride rally Aug. 27, Bloomberg reported today.
Ernst's event, which last year hosted seven...
Branstad, Rastetter, Northey Named to Trump Ag Committee
A week after news broke that Gov. Terry Branstad and his longtime political ally, Iowa agribusiness executive Bruce Rastetter, were about to be named...
Dems Project Unity at Clinton’s First Iowa Rally Since the Caucuses
The first thing I notice as I arrive Wednesday at Lincoln High School in Des Moines is a group of about 20 Trump supporters...
Branstad Gets Closer to Trump as Rastetter Considered for Ag Secretary
NJ.com reporter Claude Brodesser-Akner broke the news yesterday: Gov. Terry Branstad and Bruce Rastetter, along with former Nebraska Gov. David Heineman, are being announced...
