Iowa

resh from declaring his independence from the Democratic Party, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hitting the campaign trail as an independent candidate for president. But don't look for the Kennedy family scion to be laser-focused on the usual early nominating states.

After signing the 1938 Munich Agreement that gave Nazi Germany the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia in exchange for Adolph Hitler's promise that he had "no more territorial demands to make in Europe," British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said the deal had secured "peace in our time." Dave Nagle says Chamberlain's spirit of appeasement lives on in the leadership of the Iowa Democratic Party.

Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum gets his shot on Wednesday to get a word in on foreign policy. The North Dakota governor, who struggled to be heard in the last GOP presidential primary debate, is scheduled to deliver a “major foreign policy and national security s speech” at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.

All presidential candidates who have bothered to campaign in Iowa support increased ethanol mandates and oppose electric vehicle mandates, according to a biofuels advocacy organization. Biofuels Vision 2024 said the Republican candidates actively campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination in the Hawkeye State support year-round E15 (gasoline with 15 percent ethanol added) and opposed EV mandates pushed by the Biden administration.

The campaign for GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is pushing back against police accounts about an incident Thursday afternoon involving protesters and a car that reportedly struck a Ramaswamy campaign vehicle.

After last week's disorderly, hostile debate, some fun and games on the presidential campaign trail may have been just what the doctor ordered.

With just over 100 days to go before the Iowa caucuses, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is pumping even more resources and staff into the Hawkeye State. The DeSantis campaign plans to move about a third of its staff from Tallahassee to Des Moines, underscoring the primary position the top tier candidate has placed on the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

They're back ... Following last week's disorderly second debate, several Republican presidential candidates are back in Iowa this week with less than 3 1/2 months to make their case to Hawkeye State caucus-goers.

Asserting the current crowded GOP presidential primary debate stage is too cluttered, the campaign for Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is asking the Republican National Committee to trim the number of contestants for the next debate in November. Ben Yoho, CEO of the Ohio businessman’s presidential campaign, proposed revised criteria for candidates to make next month’s debate stage in Miami.

Wednesday evening's chaotic GOP presidential primary debate at times felt more like an episode of "Jersey Shore" than a showcase of the best and brightest minds in conservative politics.

Former President Donald Trump plans to campaign in southeast Iowa on Sunday. The frontrunner in the GOP presidential nomination chase will deliver remarks at a Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus event at 2:30 p.m. in Ottumwa, according to his campaign.

If Wednesday's second GOP presidential primary debate proves to be anything like the first, we're in for a night of political punches and maybe a rhetorical gang fight or two as the candidates look to score points in another Trump-less bout.

A recent poll showing President Joe Biden ahead of Donald Trump in a 2024 rematch if the former president is convicted of the indictments he's facing was conducted by the pollster working with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' super PAC.

In her battle against so-called "gender-affirming care" (aka sex changes) for children, Chloe Cole says she "will never be silenced until the butchers put the scalpel down." Cole, a 19-year-old former transgender boy who detransitioned at 17, has a powerful story to tell.

Declaring that it's time for Washington to start working for Americans and not the other way around, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley laid out her economic "Freedom Plan in a speech Friday in New Hampshire. The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is proposing a litany of middle-class tax cuts, regulatory relief and "third rail" entitlement reforms in a proposal she asserts will check communist China aggression through American prosperity.