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A member of one of America’s most famous Democratic families, the 69-year-old Kennedy was running a long-shot Democratic primary bid but has better favorability ratings among Republicans. Biden's allies so far have dismissed Kennedy’s primary campaign as unserious. Asked for comment on his potential independent run, a Democratic National Committee spokesman responded with an eye roll emoji. Kennedy took leave from the group when he announced his run for president but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. ___The Associated Press receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of an Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and brought back to the U.S. in her luggage. The woman declared the small box of feces when she was selected to have her belongings inspected upon arriving at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport on Sept. 29, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The woman, who was not identified, told officials she planned to use the waste to make a necklace, as she had done in the past with moose poop. Giraffe poop can be brought back to the U.S. with the proper permits and inspections, according to Minnesota Public Radio. The station reported that the woman won't face sanctions because she declared the feces and gave it to Customs.

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Still, the DeSantis campaign remains adamant that the race is far from settled and the timing of these recent broadsides is coming as 2024 is only just now coming into focus for many voters. “The time for contrast was not over the summer when the government was going after (Trump),” said Ryan Tyson, a senior adviser to DeSantis’ campaign. Club for Growth president David McIntosh recently warned about the potential pitfalls of attacking Trump too aggressively. “Every traditional post-production ad attacking President Trump either backfired or produced no impact on his ballot support and favorability,” McIntosh wrote. A new phaseThis new phase of the DeSantis campaign marks a significant departure from the spring and summer, when DeSantis did not always appear comfortable criticizing Trump.

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☆ Reaction to Democratic U.S. Senator Feinstein's death
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (C) talks to reporters as she walks to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill, in Washington December 9, 2014. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, has died at 90, a source familiar with the news said on Friday, although Feinstein's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JUDY CHU, a California Democrat, on X:"Senator Feinstein was a trailblazer, a proud Californian, and a legislative titan. HILLARY CLINTON, former U.S. senator, secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee, on X:"I'm deeply saddened by the passing of Dianne Feinstein. SENATOR TIM SCOTT, a South Carolina Republican and 2020 presidential candidate, on X:"Saddened to learn of Senator Feinstein’s passing.

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CNN —The Federal Reserve on Thursday admonished Tanner Winterhof, a former executive at VisionBank of Iowa, for allegedly falsifying documents, causing the bank to endure major losses. Despite VisionBank terminating him last year, Winterhof still managed to get another job at a bank. According to the Fed, Winterhof falsified documents, including a subordination agreement, related to loans extended to a customer. However, shortly after CNN reached out to Availa Bank for comment, Winterhof was removed from Availa’s staff page. An Availa executive told CNN in an email that Winterhof no longer works at the bank.

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☆ Poll: Majority of Republicans find Trump to be 'a person of faith'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A new poll finds that a majority of Republican voters view Trump as "a person of faith." AdvertisementAdvertisementA majority of Republican voters view former President Donald Trump as a person of faith, more than just about every other 2024 primary foe, according to a new poll. A Deseret News/Harris X poll found that 53% of registered Republican voters said they found Trump to be a man of faith. AdvertisementAdvertisementMany on the evangelical right and other faith voters have embraced Trump due to his policies and judicial appointments. It has a =/- 5.5 percentage point margin of error for its smaller sub-sample of registered Republican voters.

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☆ Why New Hampshire is the most likely state where Trump could lose a primary
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Harry Enten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

He’s getting over 60% in a number of national surveys of the GOP primary and holds the advantage in every early state that’s been polled. Take a look at CNN’s most recent survey of the state’s GOP primary conducted by the University of New Hampshire. The fact that Trump’s share of the New Hampshire primary vote remains flat is notable. In 2016, New Hampshire GOP primary voters were twice as likely to identify as moderates and independents than Iowa Republican caucusgoers. And keep this in mind: The winner of the Iowa GOP caucuses rarely wins the New Hampshire GOP primary.

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☆ An Iowa nonprofit suffered nearly $1 million in flood damages. The woman who runs it shares the long road to recovery.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Worst of all for her, the ruinous flooding meant Operation Threshold, which helps thousands of low-income individuals and families across three Iowa counties become self-sufficient, couldn't operate. Operation Threshold"So many of the families that flooded were people that we normally serve," Grant, executive director of Operation Threshold, said. The Operation Threshold office building was inundated. In the aftermath of the flooding, Grant said the plethora of paper documents in the office wouldn't dry enough to shred. The organization also received a loan from a local credit union and pocketed roughly $12,000 by selling its secondary office building.

Persons: Barb Grant, Grant, she'd, —, Kim Reynolds, it's, Miriam Alarcón Avila Organizations: Pew Charitable, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA Locations: Iowa, Waterloo , Iowa, Vermont, Waterloo, Mississippi, Waterloo —

☆ Trump’s indictments – and mug shot – are deepening his supporters’ anger and revving up their support
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Kate Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“And I love it because he has every right to be,” the South Dakota Republican said. “Everyone makes mistakes.”Like many other Trump supporters interviewed, Scott Akers of Alabama immediately pointed to Hunter Biden when asked about Trump’s mounting legal peril. ‘This country’s a powder keg’Intertwined with their outrage over the indictments, some Trump supporters are raising the specter of heightened political violence if Trump were to be convicted. Trump supporter Amanda Hamak-Leon and her boyfriend are seen at his Rapid City, South Dakota, rally on September 8, 2023. A vendor sells T-shirts featuring Trump's mug shot outside his Rapid City, South Dakota, rally on September 8, 2023.

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☆ A 'Where's Melania?' banner was flown over an Iowa football stadium just before Trump, DeSantis, and other presidential hopefuls arrived
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A "Where's Melania?" Melania Trump has been absent from the campaign trail as her husband campaigns for a second term. was flown over the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. banner inquiring about the whereabouts of former first lady Melania Trump was flown above the Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa. Melania Trump has been virtually absent from the campaign trail, instead remaining in Florida with the couple's son, Barron Trump.

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The rivalry game between Iowa and Iowa State always ratchets up the intensity of both fan bases every year, even if the two programs are unranked as they are this season. Five Iowa State players who were projected to be starters before the season are suspended. Other football players are suspended as the two schools head into their 70th overall meeting in a series that began in 1894. Iowa State quarterback Hunter Dekkers, running back Jirehl Brock, offensive lineman Jacob Remsburg, tight end DeShawn Hanika and defensive lineman Isaiah Lee were charged. Both teams won their openers last week, and the absences of the suspended players did not appear to make an impact.

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The lawsuit argued Select Structural Engineering didn't identify the risk of collapse, the danger of such a collapse and repairs that would have avoided a collapse. “At no time did Select Structural opine that the defects in the west wall would require an evacuation of the building,” the lawsuit said. In the email, Van De Wiele wrote, “He was frustrated and whispered to me that ‘the whole side is going to come down. '”Van De Wiele wrote that he told Haut he should tell supervisors Rich Oswald or Beth Bringolf. Since the building collapsed, residents have filed several lawsuits arguing that the building owner, engineering company and city officials were negligent.

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☆ Vivek Ramaswamy floats Elon Musk as a potential White House advisor if he wins the 2024 presidential election
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy floated Elon Musk as a potential White House advisor. Ramaswamy has praised Musk's actions after taking over Twitter, which has now been rebranded as X. "I expect him to be an interesting advisor of mine," Ramaswamy said during a Friday event in Iowa. During an Iowa campaign event, the entrepreneur — whose presidential candidacy has surged among GOP voters in recent weeks — spoke fondly of Musk. "I've enjoyed getting to know better Elon Musk recently.

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☆ Here's where the Republican presidential candidates stand on student loan forgiveness
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Republican presidential candidates (L-R): former Arkansas Gov. Donald TrumpFormer President Donald Trump, who didn't attend the debate Wednesday night, has a long record of opposing student loan forgiveness. Ron DeSantisThe Florida governor has said that it's wrong to saddle taxpayers with the expense of student loan forgiveness. Chris ChristieThe former New Jersey governor has said that Biden doesn't have the authority to cancel student debt without prior authorization from Congress. "This federal action will not affect student loans held by the Bank of North Dakota, and we would strongly oppose any copycat legislation at the state level."

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☆ Trump Holds 23-Point Lead Over DeSantis in Closely Watched Iowa Poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Donald Trump was the first choice of 42% of likely Republican caucus-goers out of 14 GOP presidential candidates tested, according to the Iowa Poll. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/Associated PressFormer President Donald Trump holds a 23-percentage-point lead over his nearest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in the first state that will hold a Republican presidential nominating contest, according to an Iowa Poll released Monday. The survey shows that 42% of likely Republican caucus-goers say Trump is their first choice out of 14 different GOP presidential candidates tested, while 19% pick DeSantis.

Persons: Donald Trump, Charlie Neibergall, Ron DeSantis, Trump Organizations: Republican, GOP, Iowa, Associated Press, Florida Gov Locations: Iowa

☆ Trump has commanding lead in Iowa ahead of 2024 Republican caucus - poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom survey of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers shows Trump has the backing of 42%, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 19% and U.S. Among Trump supporters, however, 66% said their vote was set, while 34% said they could be persuaded to change their minds. The poll found 65% of likely Republican caucusgoers didn't think Trump had committed serious crimes, compared with the 26% who believed he had. The survey came ahead of Wednesday's first Republican primary debate, which Trump has said he will skip, citing his large lead in polls. A national CBS poll on Sunday showed Trump was the preferred candidate for 62% of Republican voters, with DeSantis trailing behind at 16%.

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☆ An Iowa school district asked ChatGPT if a list of books contains sex scenes, and banned them if it said yes. We put the system to the test and found a bunch of problems.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

An Iowa school district asked ChatGPT if a list of books "contain a description or depiction of a sex act." In an effort to decide what books to ban from school libraries, an Iowa school district asked ChatGPT whether a list of books contained a description or depiction of an explicit act. When ChatGPT replied that 19 books did indeed contain such scenes, the school district banned 19 books, various news outlets reported this week. We asked ChatGPT the same question three times, and it gave us three very different answers. Of the 19 books removed by the Mason City school district, 17 have been reviewed by age-rating nonprofit Common Sense Media.

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Vander Plaats and his group are leaders in the state’s Christian conservative movement, which has enormous political influence in Iowa. “It’s a lot more money” than you typically see allocated in Iowa, said Steffen Schmidt, an emeritus political science professor at Iowa State University who studies political spending in the state. “We endorsed Rick Santorum and he stormed to a caucus victory due to our base of supporters,” Vander Plaats wrote. Dunwell referred a request for comment to Vander Plaats, who said Dunwell had been paid as an “independent contractor” since June. You like being around them,” Vander Plaats said on conservative podcast host Steve Deace’s show on Monday.

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☆ A GOP divide in Iowa over Trump -- and over the truth
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( John King | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Mudd does not dispute this but says he would have more confidence if states followed the same procedures. “Nothing about that deal is the American way, I don’t think,” Mudd Sr. says of the latest Trump indictment. And it vividly captures the country’s red state-blue state divide, which includes what you think of Trump and where you get your news. Taylor supported Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 caucuses, but voted for Trump in November 2016 and again in 2020. Shopping around is an Iowa tradition, but both understand that a splintered field eventually helps Trump, as it did in 2016.

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☆ House Republicans say Biden could be impeached by the end of the year: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

House Republicans view it as almost certain that they will move forward with impeaching Biden this fall. But in actuality, House Republicans think it's likely they'll later impeach Biden. A vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is not a direct vote on impeachment, but it would make a major escalation in House Republicans' probes of Biden. "Once the barn doors are open, so to speak, the horses are out," an unnamed senior House Republican told CNN. Of particular note are the 18 Republicans who represent congressional districts won by President Joe Biden in 2020.

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☆ DeSantis sharpens critique of Trump but faces huge odds
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

While he faces classic signs of a campaign in free fall, including staffer layoffs and donor concern, DeSantis’ problems are not all self-inflicted. Keith Davis, who has served as Sheriff of Wayne County since 1997, is a Trump voter who is now backing DeSantis. Scott Olson/Getty ImagesIn his first post-reset swing through Iowa, DeSantis had mixed results. While he was in Iowa, DeSantis also repeatedly paid tribute to Reynolds after Trump alienated some caucus-goers by badmouthing the state’s popular Republican governor. But what DeSantis is trying to do, by running a classic Iowa campaign, is a ultimately a conventional move.

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☆ A Left-Right Alliance Puts Iowa’s CO2 Pipelines on the Presidential Agenda
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | More About Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The $4.5 billion Summit, $3 billion Navigator and $630 million Wolf Carbon pipelines may not be front and center next month at the first Republican presidential debate. They probably won’t be featured in super PAC advertising or mentioned during Fox News appearances. The Summit, Navigator and Wolf pipelines, fueled by federal tax credits embraced by both parties, would draw carbon dioxide from the factories that turn Iowa corn into ethanol. They would snake through 3,300 miles of farmland in Iowa and other Midwestern states, then pump the planet-warming gas into the bedrock beneath Illinois and North Dakota. And they are pitched as a climate protection measure, though some experts and environmentalists say it is only a partial solution at best.

Persons: —, Donald J, Trump, Mr, “, that’s, ” Organizations: Fox News, Republican Locations: Iowa, Illinois, North Dakota

☆ Trump and DeSantis Collide for First Time in Iowa, as Fortunes Diverge
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | More About Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ron DeSantis of Florida shared the same stage at an Iowa Republican Party dinner on Friday, their appearances seemed to capture the basic dynamics of the 2024 presidential primary. Mr. Trump played headliner. Mr. DeSantis was reduced to an opening act. Even as Mr. Trump has been hit with two criminal indictments, with more possibly coming, he has only consolidated support in recent months, flashing the same resilience in Iowa that he has nationally. Mr. Trump’s rivals have long circled Iowa as the early state where Mr. Trump, who finished a disappointing second in the 2016 Iowa caucuses, might be most vulnerable in 2024.

Persons: Donald J, Ron DeSantis, Trump, DeSantis Organizations: Trump, Gov, Iowa Republican Party Locations: Florida, Iowa

☆ DeSantis justifies his struggling campaign by saying he isn't focused on TV ads that would make a 'splash nationally'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ron DeSantis dismissed concerns about his presidential campaign. DeSantis said his focus on the early states is not designed to make a national splash akin to a TV ad. DeSantis argued his campaign isn't aimed at making a national splash. "We're focused on building an organization," DeSantis said. A pro-DeSantis super PAC has pledged to spend $100 million on building an organization in the early states, The Washington Post previously reported.

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☆ An Iowa Republican state lawmaker switched his support from Trump to DeSantis after the ex-president blasted Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds over her neutrality in the 2024 GOP primary
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Iowa state Sen. Jeff Reichman on Thursday flipped his 2024 support from Trump to DeSantis. Both Trump and DeSantis are making a major play for Iowa, the first-in-the-nation GOP caucus state. Ron DeSantis of Florida days after the ex-president blasted the state's governor, Kim Reynolds, over her neutrality in the GOP primary. Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung dismissed Reichman, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, over his shift in support. "There is no room for weak-kneed and lily-livered people on Team Trump.

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