Welcome to Trail Guide, your host through the wilds of the 2016 presidential campaign. It’s Tuesday, Jan. 19, and here’s what we’re talking about:
- Sarah Palin is backing Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination
- Gov. Terry Branstad says that Iowans voting for Ted Cruz would be making a mistake
- The attacks between Republican front-runners Trump and Cruz are growing nastier
- Ben Carson temporarily suspends campaign after volunteer dies in a car accident
- Cruz accuses Trump of party-hopping, and not the fun kind
- At the Democratic debate in South Carolina, courting the support of black voters was at the forefront for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley