Michele Bachmann

In August of 2011, Rep. Michele Bachmann won the presidential straw poll, considered a major accomplishment, before she dropped out five months later. (AP)

Is Donald Trump the Iowa front-runner? Ask Michele Bachmann

David M. Drucker · August 15, 2015 4:01 am

Prior to retiring from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2013, Michele Bachmann ran a presidential campaign of her own in 2012. (AP Photo)

Michele Bachmann has two questions for GOP hopefuls

Gabby Morrongiello · August 6, 2015 5:44 pm

University of Miami pediatrician Judith L. Schaechter, M.D. (L) gives an HPV vaccination to a 13-year-old girl in her office at the Miller School of Medicine on September 21, 2011 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

CDC says teens still not getting HPV vaccine

Robert King · July 30, 2015 5:26 pm

Donald Trump is now the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president, according to the polls. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

The Donald is ahead in the polls. So were Bachmann, Thompson and Jackson at this point

Daniel Allott · July 15, 2015 5:48 pm

Michele Bachmann wonÂ the last straw poll with 28.6 percent. That turned out to be her high point in the race. (Getty Image)

Iowa GOP hopes changes save the straw poll

David M. Drucker · May 8, 2015 9:00 am

Republican presidential candidates, from left, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, take their place for a Republican debate, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

GOP takes charge of primary debates, but will changes matter?

Eddie Scarry · April 10, 2015 9:00 am

Michelle Bachmann compares Obama to murderous German pilot, nobody cares

Becket Adams · April 1, 2015 12:00 pm

"Welcomed some of great @IATSE guys on strike from the #Sharknado3 crew to the house of labor -- their house," Trumka said in a tweet. (AP)

AFL-CIO backs ‘Sharknado 3’ strikers

Sean Higgins · March 11, 2015 9:50 pm

MSNBC's Thomas Roberts has been tapped to take over the network's 1-3 p.m. block, replacing soon-to-be-canceled shows "The Reid Report" and "Ronan Farrow Daily." (MSNBC)

10 bizarre news moments from MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts

Becket Adams · February 20, 2015 10:25 pm

Sen. Joni Ernst will deliver the Republican response to President Obama's Jan. 20 State of the Union address. (AP Photo)

How Joni Ernst can learn from history and nail the State of the Union response

Beverly Hallberg · January 19, 2015 1:50 pm

Voters line up outside the Hilton Coliseum to vote in the Iowa Straw Poll at Iowa State University August 13, 2011 in Ames, Iowa. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty images)

Iowa straw poll lives another day

Justin Green · January 10, 2015 9:59 pm

"I believe that it is ridiculous the amount of money we're spending on these elections; it's gone into the realm of the bizarre and absurd, and even for Washington, D.C., standards," Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Michele Bachmann: Campaign spending levels have gotten ‘bizarre and absurd’

Sean Lengell · October 15, 2014 10:21 pm