Biden announces statewide bus tour ahead of Iowa caucuses

Former Vice President Joe Biden will travel across Iowa on a statewide bus tour leading up to the state’s first-in-the-nation caucus, his campaign announced Sunday. 

Biden’s “Soul of the Nation” bus tour will cross the state after kicking off in Des Moines on Sunday. 

The campaign tour will end back in Des Moines on Feb. 2 and 3.  

Biden will visit 20 cities in 17 counties. He’ll be joined by Iowa officials who have endorsed his presidential campaign including Democratic Reps. Abby Finkenauer and Cindy Axne. 

Biden’s campaign stops across the state comes as several of his opponents, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn), could be held up in Washington, D.C., as the Senate impeachment trial presses on. 

Biden and Sanders are leading in Iowa, according to a CBS News poll conducted by YouGov released Sunday. Sanders, at 26 percent, had a 1 point lead over Biden which is within the poll’s margin of error. 

A RealClearPolitics average of recent Iowa polls shows Biden with a slight 1.6 point lead over Sanders in the state.