DES MOINES — Even Iowa’s winter landscape this week seemed to conspire to showcase the grimness of the 2024 Republican primary campaign. Abandoned cars dotted the frozen tundra every few miles like signposts, as if to say: This race is inhospitable to everyone but former president Donald Trump. The winter storm, which the National Weather […]Read More

WINDHAM, N.H. — It’s pouring rain Saturday morning as New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) arrives at Mary Ann’s diner in Windham, fielding calls and texts as he monitors potential flooding in the marshes along the state’s seacoast where he’s headed next. But he’s stopping here first because there are only nine days left before […]Read More

JOHNSTON, Iowa — The Iowans who answered their doorbells, held back their barking dogs and cracked open their storm doors into the horizontal snow were impressed to see that even blizzard conditions couldn’t stop the final push of get-out-the-vote efforts in this Des Moines suburb. “You guys are dedicated, I’ll give you that,” one said. […]Read More

President Biden joined his top national security aides on a secure call Jan. 1 to discuss the upheaval threatening to engulf the Middle East and, most urgently that day, find ways to intensify pressure on Houthi militants in Yemen, whose attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea had jeopardized global commerce. No one on […]Read More

George Santos’s departure from Congress offers at least one thing beneficial to his legacy: A special election that will provide a case study of the current mood in a key House district. Top political minds are eyeing the Feb. 13 special election to replace the disgraced, expelled Santos for signs of momentum in either direction […]Read More

John F. Kerry, who has served as the U.S. special climate envoy for nearly three years, will leave the Biden administration by the spring, according to three people close to the situation. Kerry informed President Biden during a Wednesday meeting at the White House, and he told his staff during a virtual meeting on Saturday, […]Read More

DES MOINES — On the debate stage, Ron DeSantis denounced “warmed-over corporatism” and accused his opponent of “ballistic podiatry” — shooting oneself in the foot. The Florida governor drew backlash last year for apparently warning fellow Republicans against becoming “listless vessels” following former president Donald Trump — a favorite phrase that few people besides DeSantis […]Read More

DES MOINES — Donald Trump’s expected march to the Republican presidential nomination will begin Monday night in snowy, frigid Iowa. Everything suggests that the competition could be short and uneventful. On this final weekend before the quadrennial caucuses, Iowa normally pulses with energy. This year, it lacks both the drama and suspense of years past. […]Read More

“We had no terrorist attacks at all during my four years.” — Former president Donald Trump, during a Fox News town hall, Jan. 10 “I had no wars. I’m the only president in 72 years, I didn’t have any wars.” — Trump, also during the town hall Trump’s town hall featured many of the same […]Read More