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    'Nerve-racking': Iowans under pressure on eve of crucial caucuses

    Democrats Democratic presidential candidates makes their final pitch to the state but midwesterners are still torn over who to support in race against Donald Trump Bernie Sanders speaks to supporters and volunteers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters Many Iowans look forward to their state’s caucuses, the quadrennial ritual of gathering at schools, churches […] More

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    'We must defeat Trump': Democrats make final appeals as Iowa prepares to vote

    Iowa Polling shows no clear frontrunner in tight race as four Democratic candidates are knotted together at the top Elizabeth Warren campaigns for thke Democratic presidential nominee in Indianola, Iowa, on Sunday. Photograph: Matt Marton/EPA After more than a year of ideological clashes and policy debates, voters in the midwestern state of Iowa are set […] More

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    US election: The importance of Iowa – podcast

    Chris McGreal visits the first US state to vote in this year’s race for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination. Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are vying for crucial early momentum in the race to take on Trump. Plus: Iman Amrani on modern masculinity How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know […] More

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    John Kerry discussed 2020 run to stop Sanders and save Democrats – report

    John Kerry Kerry ‘categorically’ denies NBC News report of phone call Robert Reich: Democrats share blame for the rise of Trump Martin O’Malley: ‘How do you fall for the Sanders scam?’ John Kerry arrives at a campaign event in support of Joe Biden in North Liberty, Iowa, on Saturday. Photograph: Iván Alvarado/Reuters Former presidential candidate […] More

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    Trump impeachment: looming Senate acquittal threatens to overshadow Iowa

    Growing number of Republicans say they will vote to acquit Robert Reich: Democrats share blame for the rise of Trump Martin O’Malley: ‘How do you fall for the Sanders scam?’ The US Capitol Building at sunrise. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA As a growing number of Republican senators confirmed they will vote to acquit Donald Trump at […] More

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    'Pathological liar': Bloomberg hits back at Trump 'Mini Mike' insult

    Trump uses Super Bowl interview to attack potential rival Robert Reich: Democrats are partly to blame for Trump Martin O’Malley: ‘How do you fall for the Sanders scam?’ emocratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg speaks at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 19 January. Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP Michael Bloomberg traded insults with Donald Trump […] More