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Posted: Feb 03, 2020 12:03 PMUpdated: Feb 03, 2020 1:26 PM

Iowa Caucus is Set to Take Place Monday Night

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Katelyn Howard and Garrett Giles

Democratic presidential candidates who have been stuck in Washington for the Senate impeachment trial blitzed Iowa over the weekend. KGOU’s Katelyn Howard gave us a report from Iowa.

Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar held rallies, town halls, concerts and Super Bowl watch parties across Iowa over the weekend. This was in a last-ditch effort to win over voters before today’s Iowa caucuses that will kick off the 2020 presidential primaries.

The Senate adjourned at about noon on Saturday, giving the presidential nominees time to hold events in Iowa for the remainder of the weekend. In the candidate’s absences, surrogates ranging from celebrities to lawmakers have campaigned across the state.

Democratic candidates who don’t have Senate obligations like Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer have already spent much of the past month campaigning in Iowa.

Warren, an Oklahoma native, held rallies across Iowa over the weekend featuring politicians like Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley, and Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro. During a press conference following her rally in Iowa City on Saturday, Warren spoke about what she would do to garner support in Oklahoma ahead of Super Tuesday in March.

Sen. Warren said, “We want to have a Democracy where rich people and everyone else all have the same voice. And that’s the kind of grass roots movement I’m building so we can make that work in Oklahoma. We can make it work in Iowa.”

The results of the Iowa caucuses tend to help determine how a candidate will do in the later voting contests.

(Photo courtesy: KGOU)


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