DES MOINES — Bob Ray has participated in Iowa’s Republican caucuses in the past, but not this year. Ray is blind, and with snow clogging the roads and subzero temperatures gripping the state, showing up on Monday is a non-starter. “I’m 75 years old, and I’m not going to want to get out that night,” […]Read More

Just a few weeks into his tenure as House Speaker, Mike Johnson (R-La.) called Rep. Max L. Miller into his office to talk about how to fund the government as new deadlines loomed in early 2024. In the meeting, the Ohio Republican brought up his displeasure that Johnson’s first act as speaker was to pair […]Read More

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA — “Billboard” Bob Klaus, a local advertising company owner wearing a red, signed Donald Trump baseball cap and Trump socks to match his star spangled leather jacket and American flag cross necklace, said he lives in a house divided. Klaus, a self-described evangelical Christian who hosts Good Friday prayer breakfasts, said his […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump is polling at 48 percent in Iowa, maintaining a wide lead over his two main rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, according to the Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom poll released Saturday night. For months, Trump has dominated the rest of the field, but the race for second place has been hard-fought. […]Read More

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