ELECTION 2020
Election 2020: Live results
Get the latest results as soon as polls close for the presidential election, statewide Iowa elections and local races.
The 2020 election is here and The Gazette is here to help provide the information you need and cover what's happening. Keep up with the latest news and info here, and check back after polls close Nov. 3 as we follow results.
Live results: When polls close, check here
How to vote: Your guide to voting on Election Day
Who's running? Get to know the candidates in Linn, Johnson and surrounding counties
What about the judges on the ballot? Learn more about them here
Fact Checker: Read the latest fact checks from The Gazette
Democrat Cindy Axne sole Iowa vote for impeachment
DES MOINES - U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, the lone Democrat in Iowa's congressional delegation, Wednesday cast the lone vote from the state in favor of impeaching Republican President Donald Trump. ...
House votes to impeach President Trump a second time
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with 'incitement of insurrection' over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office. ...
Iowa State reports no indication 'students were involved in criminal activity' at U.S. Capitol
Although Iowa State University's College Republicans tweeted last week that its members were 'fighting on the front lines in DC' as 'brave patriots' during the day of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, campus officials this week told The Gazette they have no knowledge those students broke the ...
Watch live: U.S. House debates and votes on impeaching President Donald Trump
The House of Representatives on Jan. 13 will vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump for inciting the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol. The articles charge Trump with 'incitement of insurrection.'
GOP support for Trump starts to crack
WASHINGTON - The push for an unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald Trump took a bipartisan turn Tuesday when several senior House Republicans joined the Democratic effort to remove him for his role in inciting a mob last week to storm the U.S. Capitol. ...
Iowa public safety aide says riot at U.S. Capitol 'had to happen'
IOWA CITY - An Iowa Department of Public Safety worker who traveled to Washington, D.C., to support President Donald Trump's push to overturn the election says she understands the rage that fueled the riot, writing online that it 'had to happen.' ...
QAnon backer from Iowa was among first to breach Capitol
IOWA CITY - A right-wing conspiracy theorist from Iowa was among the first to break into the U.S. Capitol during last week's deadly pro-Trump insurrection, chasing and menacing a Black police officer, federal agents said Tuesday. ...
Cedar Rapids man says he entered U.S. Capitol with mob but was not violent: 'That is not who I am'
CEDAR RAPIDS - Leo Kelly didn't go to Washington to overthrow the government. ...
US House Dems introduce article of impeachment against Trump for 'incitement of insurrection'
WASHINGTON - House Democrats on Monday introduced an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump over his incitement last week of the Capitol riot as Republicans blocked an initial attempt to pass a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to use the 25th amendment to remo ...
Backup was denied, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund says
WASHINGTON - Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Joe Biden's victory, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was growing worried about the size of the pro-Trump crowds expected to stream into the District of Columbia in protest. ...
Iowa man arrested, charged with taking part in U.S. Capitol riot
An Iowa man was jailed early Saturday on charges accusing him of taking part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. ...
Iowa State's College Republicans report 'fighting for America' on day of Capitol riot
The Iowa State University College Republicans student group, which urged people after the November election to 'arm up,' tweeted on the day this week rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol that some of its members were in Washington and it was time to 'destroy' Republicans considered disloyal to ...
Rep. Ashley Hinson warns attempt to remove President Trump would further divide nation
CEDAR RAPIDS - New polling shows that nearly half of American voters think the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove President Donald Trump from office before his term expires Jan. 20. ...
Trump concedes but can't quell calls for ouster
WASHINGTON - With less than two weeks left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent to reality Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he'll peacefully leave after Congress had affirmed his defeat. ...
Grassley, Ernst: Trump bears some responsibility, displayed poor leadership
Both of Iowa's Republican U.S. senators said Thursday that President Donald Trump displayed poor leadership and bears some responsibility for the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol a day earlier. ...
I just went to the U.S. Capitol, a day after the insanity
WASHINGTON - Things were quiet outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday morning. ...
After excusing violence, Trump acknowledges Biden transition
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an 'orderly transition on January 20th' after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory. ...
Photos: Protesters storm U.S. Capitol
These photos show the scene Wednesday as a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol and forced lawmakers into hiding in an attempt to overturn the presidential election.
Congress affirms Biden's presidential win following riot at U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress, shaken and angry following a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters, put a final stamp on President-elect Joe Biden's victory early Thursday morning and brought an end to a historically turbulent post-election p ...
'Disgraceful' attack on U.S. Capitol stuns allies
WASHINGTON - The world watched with dismay as a surreal scene at the U.S. Capitol, like little seen in its history, unfolded Wednesday. ...
Iowa congressional delegation decries Capitol mob
Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, Iowa's Republican U.S. senators who for years pushed the reelection of President Donald Trump, fled a mob of the president's supporters Wednesday afternoon who breached the U.S. Capitol. ...
Trump supporters storm U.S. Capitol in bid to overturn election
WASHINGTON - A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding in a stunning attempt to overturn America's presidential election, undercut the nation's democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden from replacing Trump in the White Ho ...
Ashley Hinson sees 'narrow role' for Congress in determining election outcome
CEDAR RAPIDS - Freshman Iowa 1st District Congresswoman-elect Ashley Hinson, who has said she sees no path to victory for President Donald Trump, expects there will be objections Wednesday to accepting the results of the Electoral College. ...
In hourlong call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor
President Donald Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to "find" enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions. ...
Hinson, Miller-Meeks humbled to be joining U.S. House
CEDAR RAPIDS - Being sworn in Sunday as members of the U.S. House will be a humbling experience, Eastern Iowa's two newly elected congresswomen say. ...
U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack: 'Time for me to go and step off the stage'
In November 2006, Sue Dvorsky stood in a large ballroom at the hotelVetro in Iowa City and watched late into the night in amazement as election returns came in. ...
4 voters claim their ballots for Rita Hart went uncounted
Four voters in Johnson and Scott counties say in affidavits they took the necessary steps to cast votes in the Nov. 3 election for Democrat Rita Hart, but assert their ballots were rejected because of errors by election workers. ...