
Explainer: What are the Iowa caucuses and how do primaries work?
Republicans and Democrats have been introducing changes to their primary process, with the two parties following different rules and calendars

Republicans and Democrats have been introducing changes to their primary process, with the two parties following different rules and calendars

The excitement of the first round of the Republican primaries, which is being held on Monday despite a record-breaking storm, is focused on the duel between Trump’s best positioned rivals

The former president wants to knock out his rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley before either can be perceived as a real alternative

Some fear the controversy will hurt the party’s ambitions to make inroads with nonwhite voters who may be repelled by minimizing the historical atrocity of slavery

Elderly Iowans, the backbone of the caucus, are wondering how they will make it to their sites Monday. Political types are mentally downgrading their expected turnout and wondering who a smaller, harder-core electorate will favor

The former president skipped the last Republican debate before the Iowa caucus and instead attended a comfortable town hall event aired on Fox News

He made the announcement Wednesday night at a town hall in New Hampshire just hours before the fifth debate of the 2024 election cycle kicked off without him

The weather has already affected campaigning for Iowa’s Jan. 15 precinct caucuses, where the snow is expected to be followed by frigid temperatures

The commanding front-runner in the race will skip the debate hosted by CNN and instead appear on Fox News

A majority of about 200 members approved the ouster in a voice vote during a closed-door meeting that chairman Christian Ziegler did not attend

The speech kicking off Florida’s annual legislative session comes exactly a week before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses

Florida Gov. DeSantis portrays Haley, a former South Carolina governor who was Trump’s U.N. ambassador, as a puppet of wealthy donors and someone who’s flip-flopped on key issues

Democratic President Joe Biden has backed such programs as a way to lower prices, signing an executive order in 2021 that directed the FDA to work with states on imports

Trump is the omnipresent trickster that won’t go away. He looms over the American experience like a Zeppelin full of hot air

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who participated in previous debates, did not qualify for the CNN event

Today, almost every state official is backing Trump and he continues to draw huge crowds and interest in the state

Revelations about the Ziegler couple’s private life and a rape allegation have led to the downfall of the state’s GOP chair and his wife

Jeff Roe, the top adviser to Never Back Down, announced his departure hours after ‘The Washington Post’ published a story on internal disputes between the group and the campaign

The governor of Florida gained notoriety during the Covid-19 pandemic and now he’s looking to get to the White House. Here’s what you need to know about him

The former UN ambassador gains momentum in polls ahead of the first Republican primaries

The two candidates are trying to halt the former UN ambassador’s rise in the polls

The former ambassador to the United Nations has closed the gap on the Florida governor in the polls, with the former president still holding a commanding lead

The state that propelled George Wallace, a Democrat and four-term governor, into national politics is now dominated by Republicans loyal to Donald Trump

Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week that while Christian Ziegler is innocent until proven guilty, he should resign to avoid becoming a distraction to their party

DeSantis has said he ‘absolutely’ expects to win the January 15 Iowa caucuses, but Trump is dominant in both national and early-state polls

The police report about Christian Ziegler was filed Oct. 4 about an incident two days earlier in a private home

The governors of Florida and California laid out their antagonistic visions for the future of the United States in an unprecedented television face-off