Retired Admiral Mike Franken made it official on Thursday: he’s running for the 2022 Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. Franken is the fifth Democratic to enter the race to take on seven-term incumbent Sen. Chuck Grassley. Franken made his announcement in an interview with the Des Moines Register that was published at 6 a.m. […]
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Chuck Grassley, in elected office since 1959, is running again
Chuck Grassley, who has spent his career presenting himself as a regular Iowa farmer and not a politician, has decided six decades in elected office is not enough. On Friday, one week after his 88th birthday, Iowa’s senior senator announced he is running for an eighth six-year term in the U.S. Senate. “I’m running for […]
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Retired Admiral Michael Franken says he will run for Senate
Retired Navy Admiral Michael Franken told the Carroll Times Herald on Monday he will run for the U.S. Senate. Franken is the fourth Democrat to declare as a candidate for the seat currently held by Sen. Chuck Grassley. “I think it’s very clear looking across the national scope of things that the nation has a […]
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‘We deserve Medicare for All’: Glenn Hurst announces he’s running for U.S. Senate
On Thursday, Glenn Hurst, a doctor and the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party’s Rural Caucus, became the third Democrat to enter the 2022 race for the U.S. Senate seat Chuck Grassley has held for four decades. “Iowa’s senior senator is stuck in a vision of our past when what we need is a vision […]
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Criticizing Chuck Grassley for opposing ‘anything that moves us forward,’ Abby Finkenauer launches a run for Senate
Abby Finkenauer announced on Thursday she is running for Senate in 2022. Finkenauer, who now lives in Cedar Rapids, represented her hometown of Dubuque in the Iowa House for two terms before being elected to Congress from Iowa’s 1st District in Congress in 2018. Finkenauer had a quick rise in Iowa politics, becoming the second-youngest […]
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‘It’s time to let the next generation of Iowans take the reins’: Senate candidate Dave Muhlbauer meets with Iowa City Democrats
“What makes me unique to Iowa is that I’m not unique,” Dave Muhlbauer told the small group of Johnson County Democrats gathered on the makeshift patio behind George’s Buffet on Wednesday afternoon. “I’m an Iowan.” Muhlbauer, a farmer in western Iowa and a former member of the Crawford County Board of Supervisors, launched a nine-city […]
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Dave Muhlbauer becomes the first Democrat to enter the 2022 race for U.S. Senate
Dave Muhlbauer, a farmer and former member of the Crawford County Board of Supervisors, announced he is running for the U.S. Senate with a video posted on social media. Muhlbauer is the first Democrat to enter the race for the seat currently held by Sen. Chuck Grassley. “I’m not going to kid myself, it’s going […]
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Sen. Chuck Grassley files FEC paperwork for the 2022 Senate election, still has not said if he intends to run
Sen. Chuck Grassley filed a statement of candidacy for the 2022 U.S. Senate election with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday morning. The senior senator said during a town hall meeting in Greene County on Feb. 17 that it would still be months before he decided if he would run for his eighth term in […]
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Grassley won’t say if he’s running in 2022, praises Rush Limbaugh at town hall meeting in Greene County
Two days after the first candidate announced he is running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the senior senator was still telling Iowans he hasn’t made up his mind if he is running for reelection in 2022 yet. Grassley said a decision would not be made for months, the Carroll […]
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State Sen. Jim Carlin, a hardcore Trump supporter, becomes the first declared candidate in the 2022 U.S. Senate race
The 2022 U.S. Senate election in Iowa now has its first official candidate. On Monday, Republican state Sen. Jim Carlin announced he is running for the seat that Chuck Grassley has held since 1981. Carlin has served in the Iowa State Senate, representing part of Woodbury County, since winning a special election in 2017. He […]
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‘Total, total shit show’: Grassley and Ernst vote to acquit Trump
On Saturday, seven Republicans joined all 50 Democrats in the U.S. Senate to convict Donald Trump of the one count of inciting an insurrection for which the House of Representatives impeached him during his last weeks in office. Neither Sen. Chuck Grassley nor Sen. Joni Ernst were among the seven Republicans. The 57 to 43 […]
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Chuck Grassley tests positive for COVID-19, misses a Senate vote for the first time in 27 years
Late on Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Chuck Grassley announced on Twitter he had tested positive for COVID-19. The 87-year-old, who is the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, said he is “feeling good + will keep up on my work for the ppl of Iowa from home” as he self-quarantines. I’ve tested positive for coronavirus. […]
