The Iowa Democratic and Republican parties both gained voters over the past month, while the number of voters with no party affiliation dropped significantly. According to data from the Iowa Secretary of State’s office, the Democratic Party gained more than 27,000 registered voters from June to July, bringing the total number of active Democratic voters […]
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Josh Turek leads Ashley Hinson in one of two new election polls; Rob Sand beats Zach Lahn in both
Two polls covering the race for governor and the race for Iowa’s open Senate seat were published last week. Rob Sand was one percentage point ahead of Zach Lahn in a New York Times/Siena poll, but in a Fox News poll published one day later, Sand leads Lahn by nine percentage points. For the Senate race, the polls disagreed on which candidate is ahead.
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U.S. Supreme Court sides with Bayer, prohibits lawsuits over company’s lack of warnings about Roundup cancer risk
Bayer, the multinational biotech conglomerate that owns Monsanto, which manufactures Roundup, scored a major victory on Thursday over people suing the company for not including a warning about cancer risks on the weedkiller’s label. In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a state court decision from Missouri, and effectively blocked thousands of other […]
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RFK Jr. recorded trying to entice Iowa Libertarian to quit House race: ‘I can’t go into specifics because there’s legal prohibitions’
Rick Stewart wasn’t expecting to hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s distinctive voice when he answered his phone on June 11. It was an unsolicited call, in which the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Secretary pushed Stewart, the Libertarian Party candidate for Congress in Iowa’s 2nd District, to drop out of the race. Kennedy suggested […]
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Libertarian candidates kicked off the ballot in Iowa after alleged pressure campaign involving RFK Jr.
The State Objections Panel ruled Monday that two Libertarian candidates running for governor and Congress should be taken off the 2026 Iowa general election ballot, sustaining challenges to their qualifications as candidates. A third Libertarian survived a challenge to his campaign paperwork and will remain on the November 2026 ballot. Republicans filed multiple challenges last […]
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Republican for governor Zach Lahn chooses state Rep. Derek Wulf as his running mate
Republican candidate for governor Zach Lahn announced on Friday morning that he’s chosen state Rep. Derek Wulf as his running mate. Wulf is in his second term in the Iowa House representing parts of Black Hawk, Benton and Tama counties. He was chair of the House Agriculture Committee during the most recent session of the […]
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President Trump makes his first public comments about Randy Feenstra losing to ‘the other guy’
Sitting at his desk in the Oval Office on Thursday, President Donald Trump responded to questions from reporters, including a question about the loss of Randy Feenstra in Iowa’s Republican primary for governor last week. After ignoring the Iowa gubernatorial primary all year, Trump finally endorsed four-term congressman and putative frontrunner Randy Feenstra five days […]
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Rob Sand chooses his running mate
Little Village · Rob Sand chooses his running mate – Read by Kim Miller Less than a week after officially becoming the Democratic nominee for governor, Rob Sand announced Dave Muhlbauer, a farmer and member of the Crawford County Board of Supervisors, as his choice for lieutenant governor. “Dave has a track record of working […]
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Rob Sand warns Iowa is facing ‘a fiscal time bomb,’ calls for four debates with Zach Lahn
Iowa’s state budget deficits are a “fiscal time bomb,” and addressing the problem “before the bomb explodes” will be the top priority if he’s elected governor, Rob Sand told the annual conference of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) in Coralville on Thursday. ABI had scheduled a nonpartisan forum for gubernatorial candidates at […]
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Lahn beats Trump-backed Feenstra by less than 1% of the vote; Turek scores landslide victory over Wahls
It was almost midnight when the Associated Press finally declared a winner in the Republican race for governor in Tuesday’s primary. By that time, Randy Feenstra, the presumed frontrunner in the race, had conceded to winner Zach Lahn, and the Iowa Democratic Party and Democratic Governors Association had already sent out statements, both of which […]
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Feenstra and Lahn spent hundreds of thousands in the final days before the primary
As the June 2 primary drew closer, the two candidates leading the field of five Republicans running for governor spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in less than two weeks, according to the latest campaign finance reports from the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board (IECDB). This latest report covers the 12 days from May […]
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Trump endorses Randy Feenstra for governor; Feenstra attacks Zach Lahn for investing in penis ring technology
Last week it appeared that Randy Feenstra was in danger of losing his status as the likely frontrunner for the Republican nomination for governor. Newly released campaign finance reports showed another candidate, Zach Lahn, had raised more money than the four-term congressman since the start of the year. On Thursday, Feenstra — who Lahn has […]
