Iowa poll: Trump, Sanders leading

At a campaign rally Monday afternoon in Cedar Rapids, hours before the beginning of the Republican caucus, Donald Trump revealed he and FOX News made up.

The caucuses are political party-run processes with no state involvement, so the reporting of results doesn’t happen through state election officials.

Sanders went on to predict turnout would be high, because his “political revolution” is producing “a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of energy” in Iowa. Sanders needs to turnout out new and younger voters.

After a service at a nondenominational church in Council Bluffs, Donald J. Trump continued his courtship of evangelical Christian voters, urging them to have faith in his candidacy during two rallies with Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, who has endorsed him.

Clinton expressed confidence Monday morning and reiterated her argument that Sanders won’t be able to deliver on some of his ambitions policy proposals.

“I’m so excited tonight”.

Paul Starr says Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health plan would be even more expensive than he has acknowledged.

Citing Gallup data published by FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver, Sides noted that Trump is less popular than Cruz with Republicans, Democrats, and independents. “So there’s still an opportunity for candidates to make their case and their pitch to our activists and gain voters out of it”.

“Get out of bed”, he urged. A snowfall forecast to start Monday night appeared more likely to hinder the hopefuls in their rush out of Iowa than the voters.

Michelle Goldberg reports on the complex feelings among Iowa evangelicals, and how Donald Trump has demonstrated the waning power of religious right leaders.

The results in Iowa may also narrow what has been an unusually crowded Republican field, with a number of candidates struggling to achieve the turnout needed to continue. Ted Cruz and Sen.

By contrast, Democrats vote publicly in a two-stage election where candidates must get support of 15% of caucus-goers in each individual precinct to be viable. Eight years ago, Clinton lost the women’s vote in Iowa to another candidate promising change in Washington.

Monday’s Quinnipiac poll was conducted between January 25 and January 31. “That’s a fact”, Sanders told volunteers and supporters in Des Moines.

Iowa, geographically in the central part of the United States, is not a large state and at most a few hundred thousand voters are expected to take part in the caucuses.

For the winners in Iowa, the prize will be valuable momentum in nominating battles that could stretch for months, while numerous losers on the Republican side quickly could begin dropping by the wayside.

Candidates who campaign in Iowa every four years love to talk about the state’s reputation for “Iowa nice” – the phrase that comes from the polite, friendly Midwest tradition of Iowa’s farmers and voters.

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck, a Cruz supporter, warned last week that a Trump victory would trigger “a snowball to hell”.

Trump says his mission in the presidential race is to “make America great again”. Sanders has a 48 point margin (69% to 21%) over those who distrust the government the most, while Trump has a 42 point margin (53% to 11%) over his next closest rival, Senator Ted Cruz.

The Iowa Nice tradition seems at odds with the latest Des Moines Register poll, which told us that Trump has among the highest unfavorable ratings of any of the candidates running – and yet he is at the top of the pack. However, critics said the mailing was misleading and threatening to voters, nearly indicating the voter could be in trouble with the law if they didn’t show up at the polls. Clinton’s critics say her use of the private email server put USA national security at risk, and may even have violated some laws. She ticked off a list of Clinton criticisms: the “damn emails”, the “flip-flops”, her vote to go to war in Iraq.

“We feel real confident about our numbers and we have seen from the past that we sort of do a little better than what our numbers are”, said Berwyn native Pete D’Alessandro, who runs the Sanders Iowa campaign.

Clinton, who on Monday led Sanders in the polls 48 percent to 44 percent, said reigniting a debate over the ACA would be wrenching for the country.

But for now, all eyes are on Iowa.