With hay bales lining the back of the stage, country music on the speakers and food from Jethro’s BBQ being served, Ashley Hinson welcomed donors to the Iowa Events Center in Clive on Saturday night for her big annual fundraiser, Ashley’s BBQ Bash. The three-term Republican congressmember is currently running for the U.S. Senate to […]
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Polls show Sand beating Lahn, Turek closing in on Hinson; Cook Political Report shifts their forecast in favor of Democrats
Republicans should be in an excellent position to win both the open seat for governor of Iowa and the state’s open U.S. Senate seat. Donald Trump carried the state easily in each of the last three presidential elections. In 2024, he won Iowa by 13.2 percentage points, the biggest margin of victory in a presidential election […]
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Elon Musk plans to spend millions to put Ashley Hinson in the Senate
Efforts to elect Ashley Hinson to the U.S. Senate and keep the seat held by the retiring Joni Ernst in Republican hands will get a major boost from billionaire and prominent racist Elon Musk. Axios broke the news that Musk has directed his super PAC to spend heavily to boost the chances of Republican Senate […]
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Obama endorses Josh Turek for Senate
Former President Barack Obama endorsed Josh Turek on Wednesday. The endorsement came in a Turek campaign video, featuring Obama and the Democratic nominee for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat playing basketball in a gym. The former president is famously a basketball enthusiast and plays recreationally. Turek, who represents Council Bluffs in the Iowa House, was […]
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Democratic candidates attend farmers’ forum: ‘We can’t be saying we feed the world when we can’t feed Polk County’
Nearly 100 Iowa Farmers Union members from across the state came out Saturday to learn how several Iowa Democratic nominees plan on leading change — especially for the ag industry and the struggling farm economy. The event at Big Oak Barn in Elkhart kicked off with Sarah Trone Garriott, a Democrat who is running for […]
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‘Iowa is acting different’: Cook Political Report founder weighs Democrats’ chances of midterm success in Iowa
Political expert Charlie Cook, the founder of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said Monday he thinks Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand will win Iowa’s gubernatorial election, but the U.S. Senate race between State Rep. Josh Turek and U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson may not be as competitive as Democrats might think. Cook said Iowa is no […]
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Turek took in more money than Hinson over last reporting period; three of four Democrats running for U.S. House outraise Republicans
U.S. Senate candidate Josh Turek and three of the four Democrats running for U.S. House in Iowa raised more money than their Republican competitors during the most recent campaign finance reporting period, according to reports published by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) this week. The reports are for the FEC’s second quarter, which covers the […]
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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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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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Complaint against Sen. Zach Wahls dismissed by Iowa Senate Ethics Committee, citing lack of evidence
The Iowa Senate Ethics Committee voted Friday to dismiss a complaint against state Sen. Zach Wahls, D-Coralville, for his past employment as executive director of the Next 50 Network while serving in the state Legislature. The complaint, filed by Kathy Ulrich of Cedar Rapids, alleges Wahls, who is running to become the Democratic candidate for […]
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‘Honestly, it’s disgraceful’: Turek, Wahls spar over voting records on abortion in Dem Senate candidate forum
Candidates Josh Turek and Zach Wahls sparred Thursday during the second U.S. Senate Democratic primary debate on issues like reproductive healthcare and how to best achieve their policy goals if elected. One of the notable disputes during the KCCI and Gray Media debate centered on reproductive healthcare. Wahls, a state senator from Coralville, said “reproductive […]
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‘God bless the president’ for attacking Iran: Iowa Senators, Senate candidates react to Operation Epic Fury
Hours after President Trump announced early on Saturday morning that the United States and Israel were attacking Iran, Sen. Joni Ernst appeared on Newsmax to praise Trump for launching the attack. “God bless the president for executing this mission,” Ernst said. “Because this is not just changing for today, this is world-changing for years to […]
