WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are the latest developments from the 2016 race for president, one week out from the Iowa caucuses. All times local.
3:15 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's campaign released a parody video based off singer Adele's 2015 hit song "Hello" ahead of Iowa's Feb. 1 leadoff caucus.
Huckabee's campaign released a 3.5 minute online video Wednesday entitled "Hello, Huck," with satirical lyrics sung over the Adele's hit, with direct jabs to Democratic contenders Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. He doesn't mention any of his GOP rivals by name.
"Iowans are not for sale," the song says. "They're stubborn and picky. There's just no difference between Obama and Hillary."
"Hello from caucus night. If Bernie wins I'm gonna die. This crazy circus, it's gone coo-coo-ca-choo, and Huckabee is the guy who's long overdue."
Huckabee, who is lagging in the polls behind others in the crowded GOP field, previous ran for president in 2008. He won the Iowa caucus that year, but did not win his party's nomination.
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1:40 p.m.
An Iowa man has been arrested on charges that he threw tomatoes at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign stop at the University of Iowa.
Hayley Bruce, a University of Iowa spokeswoman, says 28-year-old Andrew Joseph Alemao was charged Tuesday with disorderly conduct after officers say they saw him throwing two tomatoes toward Trump during a speech. It wasn't clear whether the tomatoes hit anyone.
Secret Service and University of Iowa police officers arrested Alemao, and he was booked into the Johnson County Jail.
Johnson County Jail officials say Alemao was released Wednesday morning without bond.
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1:00 p.m.
Hillary Clinton says she wants the Democratic National Committee to add another presidential debate before the New Hampshire primary and urging Bernie Sanders to join her on stage.
Clinton says in a phone interview with MSNBC that she's "anxious" for another debate, adding, "let's try to make it happen." She says she wants DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the other campaigns to support another debate.
Sanders' campaign has said it has no plans to do so because the DNC hasn't sanctioned the debate. The Vermont senator's campaign has said it wouldn't want to jeopardize its participation in two debates planned for after the New Hampshire primary in Wisconsin and Florida.
The DNC has said it's sticking with its debate schedule.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley supports adding another debate.
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12:25 p.m.
Snow is being forecast in Iowa for early next week, but people gathering for the presidential caucuses likely won't be hindered.
Mindy Beerends, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Des Moines, says there could be rain and a little snow during the caucuses, set to begin at 7 p.m. Monday, but early projections show no accumulating snow until early Tuesday.
Weather is always an unpredictable factor of the caucuses, which typically draw hundreds of thousands of Iowans to precinct gatherings to choose presidential candidates and conduct political party business.
The bigger problem could be for the many campaign staffers and reporters in Iowa who want to leave after the caucuses. They could find their exit complicated by steadier snow Tuesday.
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12:00 p.m.
President Barack Obama will welcome Bernie Sanders to the White House Wednesday with days to go until the presidential hopeful takes on Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in the Iowa caucus.
Sanders and his wife arrived to the White House earlier Wednesday ahead of the scheduled meeting with the president.
The long-discussed meeting between the sitting president and his sometime critic is a moment for the president to display public neutrality in the heated and unexpectedly tight primary race to replace him — refuting suggestions that he's in the can for Clinton.
For Sanders, it's a chance to show he's got some sway with a president still popular among Democrats.
The president this week rebuffed suggestions that Sanders' upstart campaign is a reboot of his own battle against Clinton in 2008.
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10:00 a.m.
Republican presidential contender John Kasich is turning his attention to Iowa after a flurry of activity has signaled he may be headed toward the top-tier victory he seeks in New Hampshire.
The Ohio governor has planned town hall meetings in Davenport Wednesday and in Cedar Rapids Friday. He will also participate in the Republican presidential debate Thursday, which is in Des Moines.
The Iowa caucuses are scheduled for Feb. 1.
Kasich has focused most of his early attention on New Hampshire, where he's competing for votes from GOP moderates and independents against candidates including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio.
Kasich landed endorsements in that contest from the Concord Monitor and the Boston Globe and some polling placed him second among New Hampshire voters behind Donald Trump.
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8:45 a.m.
Ted Cruz is mocking Donald Trump's decision to skip Thursday's Fox News Republican presidential debate, taunting him on Twitter and creating an image of his face on the illustrated body of Disney tycoon Scrooge McDuck, sitting on top of bags of money.
Cruz on Tuesday responded to Trump's decision to skip the debate in Des Moines by challenging him to a one-on-one debate, "mano-a-mano." Cruz is following that up on Wednesday with a satirical message on Twitter, linking to a clip of the song "Brave Sir Robin Ran Away" from a film by the British comedy troupe Monty Python.
Cruz created an online petition showing a mock-up of Trump with the Disney character's body, sitting on bags of money, on top of a mountain of gold coins, encouraging supporters to "Tell Ducking Donald: Debate Ted Cruz."
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7:20 a.m.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is accusing Fox News anchorwoman Megyn Kelly of being "completely obsessed" with his candidate, and says most people tuned in to the first FOX News Republican debate because Trump was on stage.
His comments to ABC's Good Morning America Wednesday follow a statement by Trump a day earlier that he would not participate in the upcoming FOX News GOP debate, scheduled for Thursday.
The feud between Trump and Kelly began during the first FOX News debate in August, when Kelly asked the candidate if previous, disparaging comments he has made against women reflect the temperament of a president.
On Tuesday, Trump called Kelly a "lightweight reporter."
Lewandowski said Wednesday that Trump will instead spend his time with wounded veterans in Des Moines, Iowa. The state hosts the country's lead-off presidential contest on Feb. 1.
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