Notable Quote of the Day

“The Iowa Democratic Party has been preparing for record-breaking turnout for more than a year, driven both by Democrats’ angst about President Donald Trump and by an unusually large field of candidates — many of them with their own significant, independent turnout operations. The state party chairman, Troy Price, said the party is anticipating more caucus-goers than in 2008, which set a record when 239,000 Democratic voters participated, lifting Obama to victory.

‘The winner is always who’s bringing a bunch of new [voters],’ said Sue Dvorsky, a former Iowa Democratic Party chairwoman who backed Sen. Kamala Harris before she dropped out of the race.

The difficulty this year, she said, is that new voters could go to any number of different candidates. ‘There literally is no historical analogy here,’ she said.”

– David Siders, Natasha Korecki, Elena Schneider and Maya King, Politico

Democrats

• Michael Bennet, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren return to Washington, D.C., for the impeachment trial on Monday.

• Rep. Cindy Axne (Iowa) endorsed Joe Biden on Saturday. Rep. Seth Moulton (Mass.), a former 2020 presidential candidate, also endorsed Biden on Monday. Biden will continue to campaign in Iowa on Monday with community events in Cedar Falls, Marion, and Iowa City.

• Michael Bloomberg campaigned in Tampa and Miami on Sunday, where he launched his national Jewish voter outreach program. On Monday, he said he supported statehood for Puerto Rico. Rep. Scott Peters (Calif.) also endorsed Bloomberg, becoming his fifth congressional endorsement. 

• Pete Buttigieg discussed abortion, impeachment, race, and his political experience during a televised town hall on Fox News on Sunday.

• John Delaney is scheduled to campaign in Iowa on Monday with stops in Cedar Falls and Tripoli.

• Tulsi Gabbard continues to campaign in New Hampshire with a town hall in Meredith on Monday.

• The New Hampshire Union Leader, the state’s largest newspaper, endorsed Klobuchar on Sunday. 

• Tom Steyer began a bus tour of Iowa on Sunday that will run through Feb. 3.

• The Des Moines Register, Iowa’s largest newspaper, endorsed Warren on Saturday.

• Andrew Yang will campaign in Iowa on Monday with town halls scheduled in Orange City, Le Mars, Sioux City, and Council Bluffs. He qualified for the Feb. 7 debate in New Hampshire after two new polls were released Sunday.

Republicans

• Donald Trump will meet with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and opposition leader Benny Gantz on Monday to discuss policy in the Middle East.

• Joe Walsh discussed conservatism, abortion, climate change, and Trump in his interview with The Des Moines Register.

Flashback: January 27, 2016

According to Ballotpedia’s Presidential Nominating Index, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the candidates most likely to win their respective party’s nominations.