“I will tell you, something very special happened today to me,” Zach Lahn told the audience of Republicans gathered at the downtown Hilton in Des Moines on Friday night. “A boy who grew up north of Sioux City in a small town of less than 300 people. I was endorsed for this campaign by President […]
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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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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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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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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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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 […]
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In Des Moines, JD Vance calls Iran war a ‘little blip in the Middle East,’ Zach Nunn compares pain at the pump to sacrifice of Gold Star families
“My friends, this is not a normal election,” Vice President JD Vance said near the end of his speech at a campaign rally in Des Moines Tuesday. “This is not a normal political environment.” Vance then demonstrated a major reason why this is not a normal political environment. Republicans who follow the lead of Donald […]
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UI professor and Iowa City local for 25 years sues Trump administration for canceling his, his wife’s citizenship oaths
“Twenty-six years ago, I touched down at Eastern Iowa Airport,” Dr. Sunday Goshit told the people gathered on the Ped Mall Friday morning. Goshit, an adjunct assistant professor of International Studies at the University of Iowa and an instructor of Intercultural Competence at Kirkwood Community College, recalled how he arrived in Iowa “with a suitcase […]
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‘No Kings’ returns on Saturday, and more Iowa cities will be protesting Trump policies than ever
“No Kings” protests return on Saturday, with more than 3,000 events scheduled nationwide. Organizers say they anticipate the March 28 events to be the biggest day of protest in American history. In Iowa, the number of communities participating in No Kings has grown with every protest, from 33 last June to 40 in October 2025. […]
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Another Iowa soldier killed in Operation Epic Fury identified
Major Jeffrey O’Brien of Waukee was one of the six service members killed in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, “during an unmanned aircraft system attack,” the U.S. Army Reserve Command said in a news release on Wednesday. Like the four soldiers killed in the attack identified by the Pentagon on Tuesday, O’Brien served in the 103rd Sustainment […]
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Drake University student Declan Coady among six service members killed in Kuwait on March 1
Sgt. Declan Coady of West Des Moines was killed on Sunday while serving in Operation Epic Fury, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday. The 20-year-old Army Reservist was one of six members of the Des Moines-based 103rd Sustainment Command killed on March 1, in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, “during an unmanned aircraft system attack,” according to the […]
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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 […]
