Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., endorsed Trump, adding his name to the long list of congressional Republicans backing the former president's 2024 White House bid.

Alford’s endorsement comes one week ahead of the Iowa caucuses. The congressman was formerly a popular news anchor not too far down the road in Kansas City, making him at least somewhat known in the southern part of the Hawkeye State.

Trump has been endorsed by more than 100 members of the House, compared to five for DeSantis and one for Haley, per the NBC political unit's tracker.

Two new ads boosting Haley are hitting the airwaves in Iowa and New Hampshire.

The Haley campaign's latest spot is her closing ad in Iowa, launching one week before the state's caucuses, the Washington Examiner reported over the weekend. The 30-second spot features a narrator saying that Haley would be a president “with grit and grace, a different style, not a name from the past,” as images of Biden and Trump flash on screen.

SFA Fund Inc., the pro-Haley super PAC, also launched a new ad today focused on New Hampshire, with roughly two weeks to go until the state's Jan. 23 primary.

The spot repeats a familiar argument from other recent ads, touting Haley's strength in a potential matchup against Biden.

Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor who was tapped by the White House to oversee the rollout of the infrastructure bill, has left the administration and taken a role in Biden's re-election campaign.

"Mitch Landrieu brings unique and valuable experience to this fight. Mitch has been a key leader in the Biden-Harris administration’s work to build a more fair and more free America, one where the economy is built from the middle out and the bottom up, everyone can live, work, and retire with the dignity they deserve, and that protects the rights of every single American," Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement.

Winter weather in Iowa is upending Republican presidential campaigns' schedules one week out from the caucuses.

Haley was set to hold an event in Sioux City this morning, but that was canceled because of snow. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, were also forced to cancel two events on behalf of the Trump campaign in the state today.

Haley is still set to participate in a Fox News town hall this evening. And Ramaswamy has several events in Iowa on his schedule.

On the Democratic side, Biden will travel to Charleston, South Carolina, to deliver a speech at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Biden's campaign is touting that it raised more than $1 million online in the 24 hours after the president's speech near Valley Forge on Friday.

“In election after election, democracy and freedom are mobilizing issues for the American people. in 2024, that will be no different, and we are encouraged by the strong grassroots enthusiasm we are seeing around the President’s core campaign message,” deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty said.

Trump, with a lead of about 30% in recent Iowa polling, is slow-rolling his way to the pivotal caucus night Jan. 15.

As his chief Republican rivals swarm the Hawkeye State in the closing week, Trump, the defiant front-runner, is choosing not to campaign with the usual fervor of a major presidential candidate — instead, opting to spend the majority of his time over the last month holding down at his Mar-a-Lago club and leaning on campaign surrogates to do his final bidding in the state.

This week, Trump will take part in a Wednesday night town hall hosted by Fox News but will not campaign otherwise until this weekend, the final two days before next Monday’s caucuses. He is also skipping a Republican debate, which Haley and DeSantis will attend. Tomorrow and Thursday, he will voluntarily attend two of his court proceedings — one in D.C. and the other in New York — instead of campaigning.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Amid declining support from Black voters, Biden heads today to Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the site of a horrific hate crime in which a white supremacist massacred nine worshippers in 2015 — what his campaign sees as a high-stakes address as he kicks off the election year.

According to his campaign, Biden will warn that MAGA Republicans, led by Trump, are running on a dangerous agenda that is the polar opposite of American principles and will reiterate the stakes of the 2024 election when it comes to democracy and personal freedoms. 

The address at the historic church, known as “Mother Emanuel,” comes just days after Biden kicked off the campaign year near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, criticizing Trump for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.