The crucial push for votes came as the impeachment trial of Trump looked certain to end in failure for the Democrats within days
, even as new court documents revealed the existence of two dozen supressed emails revealing details of the President's Donald decision-making regarding withholding military assistance to Ukraine.Credit:The existence of the 24 emails was acknowledged in a late Friday filing by the Justice Department in response to a lawsuit by the Center for Public Integrity that seeks the release of the emails without redaction.
"Let me say this so there's no misunderstanding," the Vermont senator said in Indianola. "If we do not win, we will support the winner and I know that every other candidate will do the same." To break out of the pack, the candidates have focused on a wide variety of policy issues ranging from free college tuition to the role of government in health care, criminal justice reform, gun control and solutions to climate change. But the biggest issue on the minds of many voters is landing on a candidate who can beat Trump.
Lisa Stolba, a retired school counsellor from Cedar Rapids who attended a Biden event in North Liberty, said she's undecided, considering Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Biden and Warren. Some candidates saw an opportunity in the infighting. The 38-year-old Buttigieg has made generational change a central argument of his campaign and said Saturday that the divides underscore his point."I didn't much enjoy as a Democrat living through the experience of 2016 and I want to make sure 2020 resembles 2016 as little as possible," he told reporters after a rally in Waterloo.
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