Deadlocked Democrats fail to find their Obama at grand Iowa dinner as early favourite drops out

On a cold and gloomy Iowa night they came looking for the next Barack Obama.

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More than 13,000 voters, the biggest gathering of Democrats all year, packed into the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, to see a host of 2020 candidates set out, in 10 minutes each, their vision for America, and why they can beat Donald Trump.

It was at the same event in 2007 that Mr Obama achieved liftoff, his soaring rhetoric catapulting him to the presidential nomination, and eventually the Oval Office.

Twelve years later no-one has broken out from the crowded Democrat field. Polls show Iowa, the first state to vote on Feb 3, is a tight four-way battle between Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg….

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