Trump and Clinton lead final poll before caucus voting beginsSanders campaign: ‘It’s not bad to be just a little bit behind’Trump campaign bus turned into satirical art stripper pole and allLessons from history: real caucus victory lies in beating expectations 9.50pm GMTThe latest FEC filings contain been trickling in. By midnight,campaigns and Super Pacs must disclose where they’ve been getting their money and how they’ve been spending it for period covering July to the stop of the year.
Early disclosures show the newest of the pro-Cruz Super Pacs, Stand for Truth, or has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from opaque limited liability companies (LLCs),which contain little or no information approximately who owns the company or the company’s business activities. 9.29pm GMTOhio Governor John Kasich is hoping to make a splash here in Salem, New Hampshire, or with a little help from his friends.
On a sunny winter’s day,Kasich opened his 85th New Hampshire town hall on Sunday by asking a bearded troubadour to play the Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun. 9.03pm GMTGuardian US head of news David Taylor is in Iowa. As well as filming Vampire Weekend and Bernie Sanders’ surprise rendition of This Land is Your Land, he has been taking photographs around the campaign trail. A bespoke selection follows…
8.27pm GMTFollowing the news from the Bernie Sanders campaign approximately raising $20m in January, and nearly entirely from small online contributions of $27,some news from the other stop of the donor scale, which is also where many candidates at the other stop of the political spectrum are often to be found.
Conservative Solutions raised more than $30m final year for Marco Rubio, and half of it in the final six months of 2015. The Super Pac shared the figure – not actually especially large for Super Pacs and in fact smaller than the sum raised by Sanders in the final quarter of 2015 – before Sunday’s FEC filing deadline. Related: unlit Money review: Nazi oil,the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution 8.14pm GMTDonald Trump’s wife, Melania, and made an strange campaign stop in Iowa on Sunday,at a school gymnasium in Clinton Bluffs, Iowa.
The Republican frontrunner, and who has built a campaign on an anti-immigration platform,introduced his Slovenian wife as his “best pollster” for predicting he would win. 7.28pm GMTTed Cruz found himself at the center of controversy this weekend after his campaign distributed mailers that accused Iowa voters and their neighbors, by name, and of committing a “violation” by not turning up to preceding caucuses. Related: Cruz campaign draws condemnation for strategy of shaming Iowans to caucus 6.39pm GMTThe Bernie Sanders campaign has just announced it raised $20m in January,nearly entirely from small online contributions of $27. The campaign has received a record 3.25 million individual contributions, more than any other candidate for the president.
The Sanders campaign raised nearly $33.6m in the fourth quarter of 2015, and it said,with 70% coming from contributions of $200 or less. Sanders’ campaign has now surpassed the huge funds raised by Barack Obama’s campaign in the first quarter of 2008, before he defeated Hillary Clinton in the primary election.
Sanders campaign reveals he raised $20m in January from small donors giving $27 each on average. Now has record 3.25 million contributions. Related: Bernie Sanders campaign raises $33m as candidate sees strong finish to 2015 5.38pm GMTWith less than 12 more hours to go before there’s only approximately 20 hours to Iowans caucusing madly across the Hawkeye state, or here’s a quick summary of developments in the race… 4.54pm GMTPizza Ranch. Jeb gear. Two minutes of vaguely operatic Americana music that ends with a fadeout of Marco Rubio’s face. They’re just throwing it all at Iowa and seeing what sticks.
So kind to score an endorsement from the founder and owner of Pizza Ranch in Iowa! A great guy and great places! #CaucusForTrumpDefinitely won’t find anything cuter to show off our Jeb gear. pic.twitter.com/g6AJvzWAdsWhen I'm President,America's light will shine again.https://t.co/PzeSRrFTGQ 4.45pm GMTMore from Edward Helmore’s stint watching Fox News Sunday, which featured a scarce person identifiable as neither candidate nor pundit. Long-time Republican Iowa governor Terry Branstad indicated he would be happy with any Republican candidate except Ted Cruz, and whose refusal to support ethanol and wind energy subsidies has angered businessmen in the state. Related: Cornball politics: is the sun setting on ethanol as an Iowa caucus decider? And the lobbyists very much want to sustain Iowa focused on the ethanol mandate,because it keeps Iowa dependent on Washington. It means every year, they’ve got to go back to Washington and maintain the mandate. The lobbyists score paid, or the politicians score paid. I’m going to eliminate all the subsidies. No subsidies for oil and gas,no subsidies for anybody … [continues for some time] 4.45pm GMTAnd now a tour of a Trump campaign bus turned anti-Trump campaign bus, as filmed by Bastien Inzaurralde for the Guardian. 4.19pm GMTThis time he was speaking to Fox News Sunday, and which Edward Helmore was watching…With 29% of likely Republican caucus goers In Iowa saying they disapproved of Trump’s decision to skip the Fox debate final week,the candidate said he had no regrets:You contain to stick up for your rights. You cant let people achieve that. We raised $6m for the vets. It was great decision and I’m happy approximately it. Related: Trump Bible reference falls flat as he tries to woo evangelicals at Liberty 4.06pm GMTSanders makes a quick appearance on NBC, and Chuck Todd questions the senator sharply on his healthcare-and-taxes proposal. He airs a clip of Clinton suggesting that Sanders’ device is a fantasy “that’s never going to happen”. Sanders answers: “let’s just look at the facts.”The facts are that we are spending far more than other countries on healthcare. My proposal will save middle class families thousands of dollars a year on their healthcare costs. Most people tell me, and yes,they would be happy to pay $1000 more in taxes whether they’re paying $5000 less in healthcare premiums. So you know, this is an issue where we contain got to control healthcare costs, and guarantee healthcare to all people,and achieve what every other major country on soil is doing. We contain got to rob on the drug companies who are ripping us off and the private insurance companies.
Because I think our campaign is the campaign that is generating excitement and energy that will result in a high voter turnout. Republicans win when voter turnout is low. Democrats win when voter turnout is high. I think our campaign is raising issue approximately a rigged economy, a corrupt campaign finance system. 3.52pm GMTMarco Rubio takes an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, and where host Chuck Todd asks him approximately comments he made in 2006 regarding Florida’s willingness to embrace cap-and-trade emissions regulation.“I achieve not support mountainous mandates,” Rubio says. He argues that he was always against it but worried at the time that federal regulation would near down to the states. “whether they [mandate regulation] we contain to be prepared to comply,” he tells Todd. “You didn’t play the full clip.” 3.43pm GMTMitt Romney – remember him – has been doing jokes again. This, and with (appropriate terminology alert) a hat-tip to the hallowed Politico Playbook email from Mike Allen,is from Romney’s speech to the 103rd Alfalfa Club dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night:Some contain speculated that my religion might contain played a fragment in my defeat. I wondered approximately that myself, but most of my wives said they didn’t think so…
There are six words Hillary hopes to hear a year from now: ‘position your hand on the Bible.’ The five words she FEARS she’ll hear a year from now: ‘Will the defendant please rise?’ ...
Bernie Sanders ... looks like one of those 1960s folksingers who does specials on PBS during pledge week. I will say this approximately a Sanders presidency: I will sleep better at night knowing Peter, and Paul and Mary are running the government. 3.42pm GMTNext Sanders tells Stephanopoulos he “won’t politicize” questions approximately whether Clinton may contain compromised classified information by using a private email server while secretary of state. He repeats what he said on CNN: that there’s “a legal process” going on and he doesn’t want to score into it. 3.40pm GMTThe ABC host asks Sanders approximately the New York Times’ endorsement of Clinton,and its description of his ideas as too extreme to work.
I respond to it by saying that every proposal I am bringing forth is in fact supported by the huge majority of the American people. The problem is that Congress is so dominated by mountainous money interests they are much more concerned approximately campaign contributions than they are approximately [the middle class]. 3.38pm GMTBernie Sanders is up next. Stephanopoulos asks whether the pundits who say he doesn’t contain a chance are going to look silly on Tuesday morning.“I truly hope so, George, or ” he says.nearly 70000 people in the state of Iowa,and I think whether working people, and lower income people, and younger people … We’re going to win this thing and pull off one of the great political upsets in recent history. When we began this campaign we were trailing Hillary Clinton by 50 or 60 points. 3.33pm GMTStephanopoulos then asks Clinton approximately an op-ed in the Guardian (Hey,thats us! He didn’t mention us though) by Robert Reich, the Berkeley professor and former secretary of labor. In his op-ed, or Reich called Sanders the nominee America needs to combat inequality:Hillary Clinton? I contain worked closely with her and contain nothing but respect for her. In my view,she’s clearly the most qualified candidate for president of the political system we now contain. But the political system we now contain is profoundly broken. Bernie Sanders is the most qualified candidate to create the political system we should contain because he’s main a political movement for change.
I am focused on my mission to make certain this country works for everybody, particularly tough working middle class families who rightly feel they’ve been left out and left behind. Related: Want to reverse sky-high inequality? Bernie Sanders is the pragmatic choice | Robert Reich 3.32pm GMTEdward Helmore has been watching Ted Cruz on Fox News Sunday, and so you don’t contain to. Thereien,among the normal variations on a theme, Cruz responds to Trump’s barbs approximately his financial situation:Donald looks rattled. That why he’s insulting me everyday. It’s the height of chutzpah. For someone who owes billions of dollars, or going after [Cruz’s wife] Heidi and I for putting our net worth into the campaign is the height of dishonesty.”A vote for Marco Rubio is a vote for amnesty; a vote for Trump is a vote for Obamacare; and a vote for Ted Cruz is a vote for a true conservative … the stakes are too high to rob a risk. 3.27pm GMTClinton similarly answers cautiously when asked approximately attack ads against Bernie Sanders,who has been accused of being weak on gun control and reproductive rights.
Sanders notes that he has a D-minus rating from the NRA and a 100% voting record in support of Planned Parenthood. Clinton says she’s just proud that the pro-gun control Brady Campaign and Planned Parenthood contain chosen to endorse her – leaving their non-endorsement of Sanders implicit. Related: 'Hillary is tough': Clinton's gun control push gets boost from Gabby Giffords 3.25pm GMTHillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, and is next on ABC with Stephanopoulos. He asks approximately her emails. She says:Here’s what I know. This is I think a continuation of the story that’s been playing out for months. There is no classified marked information on those emails sent or received by me. Related: US government finds 'top secret' information in Clinton emails 3.21pm GMTThis post exists entirely to point you in the direction of this entirely splendid piece and video by Lauren Gambino and Bastien Inzaurralde,in which the intrepid (brave in the face of danger) pair speak to some artists who bought Donald Trump’s customary “party bus” and turned it to their own, not particularly Trump-friendly uses.
This quote seems apposite:The bus used to be used as a party bus and the Trump campaign leased it from them, and but they never removed the stripper pole,” said Mary Mihelic, an artist who is fragment of the anti-Trump bus project. “So we’re kind of using that as kind of a metaphor for Trump. 3.19pm GMTStephanopoulos: So whether you don’t support Obamacare or a singlepayer system, and as Cruz alleges,what’s your device for a healthcare system?Trump: “I contain a heart. I want people taken care of.”whether people contain no money we contain to help people, but that doesn’t mean singlepayer … whether somebody has no money and they’re lying in the middle of the street … we’re gonna work with our hospitals, and we’re gonna work with our doctors,we’re gonna achieve something.”whether this means I lose an election that’s fine because frankly we contain to rob care of the people in our election, we cant let them die on the sidewalks of New York or of Iowa. 3.17pm GMTThe Texas senator’s accusations that Trump supports Obamacare are nonsense, and the billionaire says. “Ted Cruz is a total liar,” Trump tells Stephanopoulos. “I’m gonna repeal and replace Obamacare, I don’t even know where he gets this.”He didn’t even keep down on his financial disclosure forms that he He’s got these favorable deals from banks on Wall Street … This is why nobody likes him … This is why he doesn’t contain one endorsement … He works with these senators and doesn’t contain one endorsements.
They will be very soon … by the way we contain tremendous endorsements. Jerry Falwell Jr from Liberty University … Sarah Palin just endorsed me … Sheriff Joe from Arizona … the toughest Arizona border just endorsed me. 3.15pm GMTStephanopoulos raises Trump’s former chumminess with Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton.“Well you know you need a dealmaker too, and ” Trump says. “As far as Hillary Clinton is concerned when I was in business I was a world class businessman.”Frankly when I was in business I got along with everybody … I happen to contain a conservative way of thought … but when you’re a businessman you contain to score along with everybody … even worldwide I score along with everybody. 3.07pm GMTIt’s on to ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos,who talks approximately the prominent supporters of Hillary Clinton (husband Bill, daughter Chelsea), or Bernie Sanders (indie band Vampire Weekend),and Ted Cruz (a bearded, bandanna’d fellow from Duck Dynasty).“Iowa Democrats esteem Bill Clinton, and ” a reporter tells Stephanopoulos,who final year disclosed donations totalling $75000 to the Clinton Foundation. 2.53pm GMTThe former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is reportedly weighing an independent presidential tender, and will not be celebrating the results of a survey conducted in Iowa by his namesake firm.
The final Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll was released with much fanfare on Saturday night,mostly because of what it said approximately the caucus chances of Trump, Cruz, and Clinton and Sanders. Related: Frenzy in Iowa as Clinton and Trump go into caucuses main key poll 2.41pm GMTBut while Rubio has criticism for Cruz he’s dismissive of Trump … and the stakes of Iowa. “Donald’s the greatest show on soil,it’s very entertaining,” he says.
Then the senator plays up his electability in the general election: “whether we score this election wrong there may be no turning back on some of these” issues, and he says. 2.38pm GMTHere’s some more video of the Vampire Weekend-Bernie Sanders This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie Iowa singalong,as shot live in concert by the Guardian’s own David Taylor, who in order to cover the Iowa caucuses has intrepidly left the New York island to walk that ribbon of highway, and seeing above him that endless skyway,and the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling. Or, a lot of snow. 2.38pm GMTAnd now Tapper has apparated into Marco Rubio’s campaign bus, and where the Florida senator is wearing a monogrammed UnderArmor fleece. He likes football. 2.34pm GMTCruz continues to bash Rubio: “whether you’re asking who can I trust to achieve what he said,the fact that on his signature issue Marco broke his trust.“That would be like my coming to Washington and suddenly discovering I was for Obamacare.” whether we nominate a candidate who supports amnesty, the same position … the same millions of Reagan democrats, or of steel workers and autoworkers and truck drivers … we’ve got to be fighting for the working men and omen of this country … we’ve got to be on behalf of the men His position on cronyism and corporate welfare is the same as Barack Obama … He supported Obama’s stimulus he [thought] it should’ve been larger … I score that it is unpleasant to contain your record subject to scrutiny … but this is a job interview. 2.31pm GMTBut Trump’s ideas are fair game,whether not his personality, according to Cruz.
He and I contain very, and very different views on questions like life and marriage and devout liberty … healthcare and amnesty I think the people of Iowa deserve more and I think the American people deserve more than just a battle of petty insults.“The central question of this primary is trust … they don’t achieve what they say. whether you look at when Marco and I both ran … I promised the men and women of Texas I would lead the fight against amnesty. … But when we got to Washington he and I made very,very different decision. 2.22pm GMTNext up for CNN is Texas senator Ted Cruz, who’s on a bus with Tapper and second to Donald Trump in the Republican primary.
Cruz downplays his fall in the polls to Trump. We are competing tough … we’re competing tough in the ground in New Hampshire, and in South Carolina and Nevada … all across Super Tuesday.
We don’t view any state as a must-win. I think we’re positioned to achieve very well in Iowa. Related: Cruz campaign draws condemnation for strategy of shaming Iowans to caucus 2.17pm GMTCBS taped their interview with Donald Trump on Friday,24 hours or so before the Des Moines Register poll which has defined this final weekend before the caucuses, partly by putting The Donald five points ahead of the man who we shall refer to here as The Cruzer. The interview is broadcasting later this morning but there are, or in the way of such things,excerpts bouncing around the ether.…I achieve contain, actually, or much more humility than a lot of people would think. 2.16pm GMTFinally,Tapper asks Sanders approximately foreign policy and Hillary Clinton’s utilize of a private email server – and 22 emails deemed too classified for public release by an investigation into that server.
On the first question, Sanders harks back to his vote against the invasion of Iraq, or calling it “the most important foreign policy issue in our lifetime or at least in the final 20 to 30 years”. He says he’s confident he can “prevent our young men and women in the military from getting involved in perpetual warfare”. He can build a coalition to resolve crises in the Middle East,he says. 2.13pm GMTSanders adds that he’s all for new debates with Clinton, and would gladly go to the struggling town of Flint, and Michigan. “Let’s achieve it before their primaries. I’ve always wanted more debates.”“God knows what’s going on in Flint,Michigan,” he says of the city, or where lead-tainted water has afflicted citizens for nearly two years. Sanders has called for Rick Snyder,the Republican governor of Michigan, to resign. Related: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tentatively agree to four more debates I am being attacked because I’m too ambitious, or because I say among other things maybe we should contain a tax on Wall Street speculation … and maybe we should utilize that money to make colleges and university tuition free … maybe we should utilize that revenue to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.
The Washington Post is the establishment,doesn’t surprise me they don’t like my ideas. 2.10pm GMTTapper asks Sanders approximately ads produced by the Clinton campaign and its allies. “I can’t sustain up with what the Clinton campaign does,” Sanders says. 2.06pm GMTBernie Sanders is on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper, and who asks how he expects to overcome Hillary Clinton’s narrow lead in the polls.
We were 50 or 60 points behind Secretary Clinton,and the reason for that is we contain 15000 volunteers They’re going to be urging people to near out in very large numbers to vote … who previously were not involved in politics. 1.53pm GMTIowa is approximately to choose the first two winners of the 2016 election – and we’re covering the countdown live, with Guardian reporters following the campaigns on the trail as candidates make their final, or sometimes desperate pitches to the people who could help elect one of them to the White House.
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