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DES MOINES — All the votes have been counted, but they will be counted again.  “We’ve received two requests for limited scope recanvass from the Sanders and Buttigieg campaigns for a total of 143 unique precincts,” said Iowa Democrat Party chairman Troy Price. “We remain committed to bringing the 2020 Iowa Caucus to completion.”  The […]

  CONCORD, N.H. — Fresh off his strong performance in Iowa, Pete Buttigieg has caught up with Senator Bernie Sanders in the latest polling data out of New Hampshire. In the Boston Globe-Suffolk poll taken February 4th, Sanders had a five-point lead over Buttigieg in second. In the same poll take February 5th as the result […]

DES MOINES, Iowa. — Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are in an ever-tightening race in the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses.  With 97-percent of precincts reporting, Buttigieg had 26.2-percent of the vote and Sanders had 26.1-percent.  Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is third, former Vice President Joe Biden is fourth, and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is fifth.   The […]

  WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to formally acquit President Trump this afternoon.  Trump was impeached by the Democrat-led House in December for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in the investigation of the Ukraine scandal.  Senate Republicans blocked Democrat efforts to subpoena some key witnesses and documents that have been withheld by […]

 (CNN) — The new app whose apparent failures derailed Iowa’s Democratic caucuses ran into issues when precinct officials tried reporting results through the software. The app, built by Shadow Inc. last year, not by the Democratic National Committee, was updated three times ahead of Monday’s caucuses, a caucus chair told CNN. Although some caucus chairs used the app successfully […]

(CNN) — The Senate on Friday voted to block any witnesses from being called in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, a move that marked the beginning of the end of the third Senate trial for a president in US history. Senate leaders struck an agreement to hold the final vote to acquit Trump on the […]

WASHINGTON — Two key swing votes in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial will not support a vote for witnesses, which will happen today.  In a statement, Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander said House Democrats have already established Trump acted inappropriately, and additional evidence isn’t necessary. But he said impeachment isn’t the proper remedy.  He argued that the American voters […]

WASHINGTON — The United States reported its first confirmed case of person-to-person spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Thursday. This is the second confirmed case of the virus in Illinois. This second person is a Chicago resident and the spouse of the first confirmed travel-associated case […]

  WASHINGTON — Senators’ questions in President Trump’s impeachment trial will resume this afternoon.  During the first-of-two days of questioning yesterday, Trump lawyers argued that House Democrats want to overturn the results of the 2016 election. Congressman Adam Schiff said Trump tried to cheat to help him win re-election.  The California Democrat defended the House impeachment and called Trump […]

  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has conceded to Senate Democrats demands that witnesses be heard in the impeachment trial of President Trump.  Senators have been sitting through hours upon hours of opening testimony from House impeachment managers and the president’s defense team in the Senate chamber over the last week and a […]