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A woman who donned a University of Texas at San Antonio T-shirt approached the 44-year-old former mayor of San Antonio. A mother of a UTSA graduate, she beckoned Castro for a photo, throwing up the famous Texan hand sign.
But Sen. Cory Booker, sitting in the passenger seat of Scholten's campaign Winnebago, had other ideas. Armed with his iPhone, Booker turned it on Scholten as the Iowa landscape flashed by.
But Sen. Cory Booker, sitting in the passenger seat of Scholten's campaign Winnebago, had other ideas. Armed with his iPhone, Booker turned it on Scholten as the Iowa landscape flashed by.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - President Donald Trump brought a new voter turnout tactic to his rally Tuesday night on the Iowa-Nebraska border, warning without evidence that Democrats would "take away your ethanol."
In this Aug. 17, 2018, file photo, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, gestures as he speaks during a campaign stop for Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Gillum in Tampa, Fla.
With dogged determination and an affable style, J.D. Scholten might just be in with a chance against the infamous GOP congressman. J.D. Scholten, Democratic candidate for Iowa's 4th congressional district, is gaining ground on his opponent, Republican Rep. Steve King.
Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from Brett Kavanaugh's College Years - As Senate Republicans press for a swift vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats are investigating a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh.
A top Republican fundraiser whose firm works for several prominent immigration hardliners is the partial owner of the land where the Mexican man accused of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts lived rent-free, a farm spokeswoman said Friday. Nicole Schlinger has long been a key fundraiser and campaign contractor for GOP politicians in Iowa and beyond, including this cycle for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart.
According to Donald Trump, tariffs are the greatest, while trade wars are good and easy to win. Apparently he didn't consult with the folks in America's so-called " heartland " about any of that.
Republican leaders began the problematic task of finding support for an immigration compromise Wednesday, telling lawmakers that President Donald Trump was backing the still-evolving bill. But cracks within the party were on full display and it seemed that pushing the measure through the House next week would be a challenge.
Wealthy Des Moines businessman Fred Hubbell easily won the five-way Iowa Democratic primary race Tuesday to run against Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, who advanced to the fall campaign uncontested in her primary. Hubbell, who provided millions of dollars of his own money to fund a high profile campaign, significantly outperformed competitors including a union local president, a physician, a former party chairman and a mayor.
"Immigration hard-liners' anger toward Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for her warning about a federal sweep for undocumented migrants in Northern California led an Iowa congressman to propose criminal penalties Monday for officials who talk about such operations in advance. Republican Rep. Steve King introduced the 'Mayor Libby Schaaf Act of 2018,' which would ban officials from 'the purposeful broadcast of information relating to any imminent action by a federal law enforcement officer or agent.'
In his forthcoming memoir, U.S. Sen. John McCain makes one more argument for immigration reform while taking swings at border hard-liners such as as President Trump, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Rep. Steve King of Iowa. McCain, the 81-year-old Arizona Republican who is fighting a deadly form of brain cancer, restates his case for overhauling the immigration system in The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights and Other Appreciations .
Voting is open now in the county auditor's office, and ballots are available to be mailed out as well, for the primary in June, to determine who will be on the general election ballots in November. -Messenger photo by Joe Sutter Webster County Supervisors Merrill Leffler, left, and Keith Dencklau vote in the primary on Monday morning.
CNN's Chris Cuomo on Friday unloaded on Rep. Steve King for "wasting my money" on Thursday by having a hearing dedicated to bogus censorship claims surrounding Trump-loving YouTubers Diamond and Silk. Cuomo started by telling King that Diamond and Silk were not in any way victims of "censorship" by Facebook, which suggested that there was absolutely no need to give them an entire congressional hearing where they made blatantly false statements under oath about having never been paid by the Trump campaign .
Iowa lawmakers are remembering and celebrating a history-making political leader after news of Barbara Bush's death broke on Tuesday evening. Fellow Senator Chuck Grassley also took to social media to celebrate Bush's life, and released a statement alongside his wife: "Former First Lady Barbara Bush was everything a country could ask for in a First Lady.
Rep. Steve King, a crusader against illegal immigration, has emerged as the unlikely culprit blocking President Trump from a crackdown on Mexico 's border jumpers in the renegotiation of NAFTA. Mr. Trump has repeatedly tied the issues together, saying he will scrap the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement unless Mexico does more to stop the flow of people headed north across its territory.
The Republican majority in Congress was on a glide path to the midterms, having passed tax cuts into law and backed off budget battles with a year-end funding package. But President Trump was not impressed.
The Republican majority in Congress was on a glide path to the midterms, having passed tax cuts into law and backed off budget battles with a year-end funding package. But President Trump was not impressed.
Iowa Congressman Steve King says he believes in free trade and is uneasy about the tariffs President Trump has recently imposed and their impact on the state's economy; The Iowa Republican Congressman says China, which bought out pork producing Smithfield Foods a few years ago, is now penalizing the company they took ownership of: