Campaigns & Elections

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang came back to the Quad Cities to campaign this week. 

With the caucuses only about two weeks away, the group Women for Trump held a brief bus tour across Iowa this week. It started in Sioux City Thursday and ended in the Quad Cities Friday afternoon.

Presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar plans to campaign in the Quad Cities area this weekend. 

After participating in an education forum in West Des Moines on Saturday morning, the Democratic US Senator from Minnesota is scheduled to host town halls in Coralville, Clinton, and Davenport.

Democratic presidential candidate, Michael Bennet, was supposed to campaign in eastern Iowa this week.

But instead, the US Senator from Colorado decided to stay in Washington D.C. to vote on the North American trade deal and later, impeachment (see pdf below).

Hoping to encourage more people to participate in the Iowa Caucuses, several groups in the Quad Cities will hold a caucus training session Wednesday night.

Two Democrats and one Republican turned out for a political forum in Davenport on Sunday. Sponsored by a social justice organization, Gamaliel of Illinois and Iowa, Bernie Sanders, John Delaney, and Joe Walsh were given time to make brief statements.

Unity and the salvation of the United States are the stakes in this year's presidential election.

That's what former Secretary of State John Kerry told Iowa voters in Davenport on Saturday, as he campaigned for Joe Biden.

U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Moline) will run unopposed in March's Democratic primary.

Her challenger, Spanky Edwards of Peoria, was removed from contention by the Illinois State Board of Elections Thursday after a petition challenge was upheld.