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Andrew Yang to suspend presidential campaign

Tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang on Tuesday announced he is suspending his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

February 11, 2020

New Hampshire exit polls: Democrats want Trump slayer, not ideological kin

The voters that turned out for the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday said they are more interested in fielding a presidential nominee who can defeat President Trump than they are in putting up their ideological avatar.

February 11, 2020

Biden shifts focus to South Carolina

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden isn't planning to stick around to celebrate the final vote tallies from the New Hampshire primary, where he faces the prospect of a disappointing finish.

February 11, 2020

Pete Buttigieg: ‘Very difficult’ for Bernie Sanders to defeat Donald Trump

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg warned Tuesday that Sen. Bernard Sanders could have a "very difficult" time winning the White House because voters are looking for a clearer picture of how the Vermont senator plans to pay for his grand governing vision.

February 11, 2020

Democratic New Hampshire primary gets nastier after Iowa chaos ups ante

The final week of campaigning in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary ended in much the way it began: with a food fight between the top contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

February 10, 2020

Biden support slides among black voters: national poll

Joseph R. Biden's support among black voters has slipped since last year, signaling more potential trouble for the former vice president's sputtering 2020 campaign.

February 10, 2020

Pete Buttigieg leads initial Iowa tally; Bernie Sanders second, Joe Biden fourth

The political circus in Iowa inched closer to a belated conclusion Tuesday after the Democratic Party rolled out a "majority" of initial caucus results showing former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg leading the pack, followed by Sen. Bernard Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

February 4, 2020

Bernie Sanders: ‘Unfair’ to question pending Iowa results

Sen. Bernard Sanders on Tuesday pushed back against attempts to cast doubt on the pending results out of Iowa, saying it is "unfair" for his rivals to try to do so.

February 4, 2020

Hillary Clinton alums developed faulty Iowa caucus app

The company behind the app that led to the delay in reporting caucus results in Iowa was established by alums of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

February 4, 2020

Bret Nilles, Iowa Democratic county chair: Reporting mess a ‘black mark’ against caucuses

Bret Nilles, chair of the Linn County Iowa Democrats, felt as though things were going smoothly in the caucuses Monday night after reporting out the results from his precinct without any issues about 90 minutes after it began.

February 4, 2020

Iowa Democrats say ‘coding’ error led to caucus reporting debacle

The chair of the Iowa Democrats said Tuesday the caucus reporting system broke down after a "coding issue" led to inconsistencies in counts and forced the data that was coming in from the more than 1,600 precincts to be logged in manually.

February 4, 2020

Hillary-Bernie battle behind caucus change, reporting mess

For the first time in the history of the Iowa caucuses the state Democratic Party planned to release the raw vote totals for each of the presidential contenders -- in addition to the final delegate count that traditionally is reported -- all in the name of transparency.

February 4, 2020

Iowa chaos: Democrats undone by reporting fiasco; Buttigieg declares victory, Bernie counters

The biggest news out of Iowa on Monday was that there wasn't any news about who actually won the caucuses thanks to reporting mishaps that threw the race into a state of chaos.

February 4, 2020

Bernie Sanders predicts he did ‘very, very well’ in Iowa caucuses

Sen. Bernard Sanders struck an optimistic note Monday night, predicting that once the final results out of the Iowa caucuses will show he has performed "very, very, well" in the state.

February 4, 2020

Democrats’ botched Iowa reporting likely to reduce bump from caucus win

The Iowa Democratic Party's botched reporting of the caucus results Monday night was casting doubts over the impact the final results will have on the nomination race.

February 3, 2020

‘Quality checks’ delay Iowa caucus results

The Iowa State Democratic Party was slow to release the results Monday night, sparking fears of a major snafu in the tabulations and possibly casting doubt on the outcome.

February 3, 2020

Bernie Sanders: Bad omen in Des Moines suburbs?

Sen. Bernard Sanders' surge in the polls didn't translate into success here at this caucus site in the booming Des Moines suburbs.

February 3, 2020

Iowa caucuses entrance poll: Voters prioritize beating Trump

The voters that turned out Monday for the Iowa caucuses were more interested in nominating a candidate who can beat President Trump than they are in tapping someone who shares their views on the issues, according to an NBC News entrance poll.

February 3, 2020

Iowa Democrats go to caucuses fretting their choice won’t beat Trump

Iowa Democrats made the quadrennial pilgrimage to their state's first-in-the-nation caucuses Monday, kicking off the 2020 presidential nomination race dogged by fears that they will make the wrong pick.

February 3, 2020

Bernie Sanders supporters blast DNC for debate rule changes

The closer the Democratic presidential race gets to the first votes of 2020 being cast here in the Iowa caucuses, the more the ghosts of the 2016 primary haunt the party.

February 2, 2020