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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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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New poll finds Sen. Joni Ernst struggling against Democratic challengers
A new poll by Public Policy Polling (PPP) finds Sen. Joni Ernst struggling against the four Democrats running for Senate in head-to-head matchups. The North Carolina-based polling firm surveyed 572 Iowa voters from Aug. 18 to Aug. 19. Sixty-nine percent of respondents were surveyed via texted questions, while the remaining 31 percent responded to questions […]
