Iowa Voters Eager To Kick Off 1st Nominating Contest Of 2020 Election

Democratic presidential candidates are making their final push in Iowa with just four days until the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses on Feb. 3. 

Voters in Iowa are weighing closing arguments from candidates crisscrossing the state, while three top contenders — Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — are stuck in Washington for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.

 This election year, in addition to asking voters who they support and what their most important issues are, Here & Now is asking voters to share their American dream for 2020. 

Here’s what voters in Iowa have to say.

Tim Gossett 

Gossett, who was in Ames, Iowa, says he’s leaning toward Warren and Andrew Yang.

“Well, I have always liked Elizabeth Warren, for a long time. I really appreciate a lot of her passion, her plethora of plans and experience in Washington, her ability to really challenge power,” he says. “With Andrew Yang, I think the thing that he