SHOWTIME
If there’s anything that this week’s Iowa events showed, Democrats have a long, wild and unpredictable march to the 2020 nomination in store.
POLITICAL FALLOUT
Iowa farmers running for office as Democrats could see their political viability rise as Trump trade wars begin to take their toll in the Hawkeye State.
NEW HAWKEYE
The embattled New York mayor, who claims he’s not running for anything in 2020, exceeded some rather low expectations among Democratic activists in the first Caucus state.
Hawkeye Hellfire
They say you can always go home, but some Iowa lawmakers may have wished they were anywhere but this week.
OH SHUCK
Sen. Chuck Grassley has been a fixture in Iowa for decades—but Democrats hope his decision to stonewall a Supreme Court nominee finally might knock him from his perch.
COLD WAR
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad may have come at Ted Cruz for his stance against ethanol, but the hostility between the two branches of the Iowa GOP the two men represent run much longer and deeper than this dispute.
PEER PRESSURE
To win Iowa, Bernie Sanders needs to expand his base and, for him, that means ditching the college campuses for the senior centers in the waning days before the Iowa Caucus.