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Clay Masters has hosted Morning Edition for Iowa Public Radio since 2014. He started at IPR a decade ago as a statehouse correspondent and still has the pulse on politics in Iowa as the lead political reporter. Clay is an award-winning journalist whose stories and analysis routinely appear on NPR, American Public Media and Iowa PBS.
Clay is the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Caucus Land, chronicling the 2020 Iowa Caucuses from presidential candidates crisscrossing the state through the fallout after caucus night.
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Some Minnesota voters seek to leverage uncommitted votes in the Democratic primary to protest the war in Gaza, similar to Michigan, hoping it will sway President Biden to change course on Gaza.
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The Florida governor went all in on Iowa and tried the traditional ground game that has paid off for past caucus winners — campaigning in all of Iowa's 99 counties.
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Republicans in Iowa hold their first-in-the-nation caucuses this evening, kicking off voting in the presidential primary. Former President Donald Trump has maintained a steady polling lead there.
