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"You ought to go vote for someone else because you're not going to vote for me in the primary," Biden responded. "I'm going to vote you in the general if you treat me right," Fallon said. Biden told him he was looking for primary supporters, not general election supporters.

Elizabeth Warren undoubtedly needed another beer after she suffered technical difficulties during her Iowa campaign debut. The far-left Massachusetts senator was holding an event at a Council Bluffs bar, The Gathering Room, on Friday night. About 5 minutes into her 30-minute appearance, the lights went noticeably dark and the microphone stopped working. Watch:

A new lawsuit alleges that Iowa’s new voter ID law violates the state constitution and will make it more difficult for some residents to vote. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday by the League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa and Iowa State University student Taylor Blair, is the first major legal challenge to the law since it was passed last year, according to the Associated Press. The law requires that election officials ask voters for a form of identification starting this year, including during Iowa’s primary elections on June 5. This year, those without ID can sign an oath verifying...

The stress fractures within the Ted Cruz facade are beginning to reach the point where it’s no longer possible to keep them hidden. (Via CNN) […] as Cruz appears to be falling farther behind front-runner Donald Trump, his campaign is now looking in the rear-view mirror, concerned that Marco Rubio and the rest of the GOP field are closing in.

Following Sarah Palins endorsement and with just over a week to go until the Iowa caucus, Republican voters are more strongly convinced than ever that Donald Trump will be their party’s presidential nominee. Rasmussen Reports latest weekly Trump Change survey finds that 72% of Likely Republican Voters think Trump is likely to win the partys nomination, down just two points from last weeks high of 74%. But that includes 40% who now say his nomination is **Very Likely**, the highest level of strong certainty to date. Twenty-four percent (24%) of GOP voters still consider a Trump nomination unlikely, but only...

Back in 2008 on the day of the Iowa caucus, when I was reporting on my first election for Townhall.com, I happened to be grabbing lunch in the same hole-in-the-wall restaurant as then-Huckabee National Campaign Advisor Ed Rollins. He sat in the cafe loudly trash talking the Romney campaign to any reporter he could call on his cell phone. Expletives and insults flew. Anyone sitting in the eatery could hear him. I, stunned any known operative would be so foolish to speak in such a way in a public place, wrote it up as an item. These are the same...

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at his rally for religious liberty on 8/21/15 in Des Moines. Photo credit: Dave Davidson (Prezography.com) When Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal exited the race a little more than a month ago, I was not sure I would offer another public endorsement. As you can imagine, I have had different campaigns reach out, and I’ve struggled with making a decision. I did have a short list; I admire and respect those who were on it, but I knew that eventually I was going to have make a decision whether I made it public or...

Chuck Laudner is Donald Trump’s Iowa campaign director. He is a Marine and a fighter who wants Trump to win and is not looking for a position in the Trump Administration. While other campaign staffs sleep with dreams of Pennsylvania Avenue dancing in their head, Laudner says when the Caucuses are over he’ll just go back to his ordinary life in a town so small it doesn’t have a diner. Trump first spoke to Laudner last December because he goes into every contest well prepared. We have heard about surveys in Iowa and how the caucuses are now a race...

As all eyes turn to Florida, you’d think GOP party leaders would be bending over backwards to win this critical swing state swings back this year after it went to Obama in 2008. Surprisingly, party leaders are doing the exact opposite. The GOP leadership voted unanimously to snub Florida Republicans again, this time adding insult to injury in their own backyard with the convention in Tampa—all because Florida had the audacity to move its primary up to January 31st. In addition to cutting the Florida delegates in half, GOP delegates from Florida are getting lousy seats in the convention hall,...

Besides his stunning leap in yesterday’s Rasmussen Iowa poll, Newt Gingrich is surging in a few national polls and sagging badly in at least one Iowa poll. What the final numbers will show in Iowa remains to be seen. Nevertheless, aside from his “paper serving” episode with one of his ex wives there are a few additional very important items in Gingrich’s past – some not very far back – that demand a closer look. Gingrich has been tagged by Willard Romney as the inspiration for Romneycare and eventually Obamacare’s requirement for a individual health care mandate which would require...

Robert Novak reports on a massive polling effort that surveyed 15,000 pledged attendees of the Iowa caucuses. Unlike the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg, whose partnership could only dig out 174 such subjects, the poll results seem much more predictive -- in their own way (via Memeorandum): While public polls show Mike Huckabee leading Mitt Romney in Iowa, a new survey of an oversized sample shows Huckabee slipping and no longer ahead of Romney. A private corporate interest commissioned a phone bank survey of 15,000 Iowans who say they will attend Republican presidential caucuses Jan. 3.

<p>John Edwards today claimed the first non-student newspaper endorsement in Iowa, where the Jan. 3 caucuses could make or break his presidential campaign.</p> <p>Valley News Today is a small paper based in Shenandoah in southwest Iowa, but could be a barometer of the former North Carolina senator's support in rural areas. The paper typically doesn't issue endorsements for the caucuses, the Edwards campaign said.</p>

Every four years pundits get to swing for the fences. Only the timid split differences and hairs. The pundits worth reading will declare what they see in the very cloudy crystal ball. Here's my take. There are two very separate battles within the fight for the GOP presidential nomination. There is the contest between Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Fred Thompson to be the conservative challenger to Rudy Giuliani. And then there is the contest between that challenger and the former New York City mayor. It is Rudy's hope that the race to be his opponent for the Republican nomination...

The Jefferson-Jackson dinner was the last stop of Senator Barack Obama's five day tour of Iowa, and it was his last chance to make an impact. He has been repeatedly criticized for lacking the zeal that thrust him into the limelight after the 2004 Democratic National Convention, but on Friday he told reporters that he's still "got it." The Jefferson-Jackson dinner proved that Obama still has ... something. Mike Allen of the Politico called Obama the "biggest crowd pleaser," but Allen wrote that a contradiction in Obama's speech may have opened the door for trouble. Obama said that running for...

Taken from the BushBlog It has not been a good couple of days for the former House Minority Leader. First, news coverage shows that he listed supporters of his in Iowa that aren't actually supporters of his Presidential bid. Now, word comes out that while the Teamsters leaders decided to support his bid, the Teamsters members are backing the President. TEXT OF THE LETTER Worker Rights Advocate Comments on Teamsters Endorsement of Gephardt’s Presidential Bid FOR RELEASE: July 31, 2003 E-mail this page Free e-mail alerts Washington, D.C. (August 1, 2003) – Mark Mix, president of the National Right to...