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Democrat Josh Turek wants Iowa voters focused on one thing as they head to the polls: the rising cost of living.

The Iowa Senate nominee, if he wins, could start reconstituting a red-state Democratic bloc that’s lost ground.

THE LOGIC BEHIND TRUMP’S ‘PRETEND I’M ON THE BALLOT’ APPEAL. In the 2024 presidential election, President Donald Trump won each of Iowa’s four congressional districts. He won the 1st District by eight points, the 2nd District by ten points, the 3rd District (which includes Des Moines) by four points, and the 4th District, in the […]

Ashley Hinson qualified her pledge to be Trump’s strongest ally, while Josh Turek praised the president’s border record.

The once-reliably red state has become competitive turf for Democrats – and the GOP has taken notice.

An apparent explosion at the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids sent thick black smoke over downtown Iowa as firefighters battled the massive blaze.

An explosion sparked a massive fire at the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The fire evidently began with an explosion, the fire department said.

PolitiFact has rated two attack advertisements targeting Republican Iowa U.S. Senate nominee Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) as "Mostly False," finding that WinSenate, an operation of the Democratic Senate Majority PAC, made misleading claims about her personal finances and voting record concerning the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The post PolitiFact Rates 2 Democrat-Backed Attack Ads Against Rep. Ashley Hinson ‘Mostly False’ appeared first on Breitbart .

Opposition to license plate surveillance is crossing party lines in Iowa, where police departments have built an extensive camera network with limited public oversight.

In December 1998, seeking college tuition assistance, I voluntarily enlisted in the Iowa Army National Guard. I did not have enough courage to do this, but growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, I had read about men who’d gone to jail for dodging military service. I held the erroneous assumption that once I signed […]

TRUMP AND THE MAGA ENTHUSIASM STRATEGY. In a conversation on board Air Force One, bound for Sioux City, Iowa, and another midterm rally for Republican candidates, I asked President Donald Trump whether, despite the excitement he sees at his rallies, he thinks the GOP is going to lose the House. Instead of answering immediately, he […]

Senate Majority Leader John Thune campaigned with GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson in Iowa on Friday in his latest effort to prop up Republican candidates on the campaign trail.

It's been more than a decade since Iowa has had a Democratic governor or senator. But this year, with the incumbents retiring, both races are competitive. As Peter Tubbs at Iowa PBS reports, record-high diesel prices have hit the state's agriculture industry particularly hard and could influence the midterm elections.

Iowa GOP strategist David Kochel said he thinks its good for Iowa's Republican candidates that Trump is campaigning in the state and that the president is 'going to the right places where we really need Republican enthusiasm to kick in here.' Kochel said that Republican Senate Candidate Ashley Hinson is the star of the 2026 midterm field but will still need to 'defy gravity' to win the election. (Source: Bloomberg)

During a campaign rally in Iowa on October 22, President Trump demanded Representative Ilhan Omar’s immediate resignation from Congress, alleging that she used a fake name to be sworn into office. Addressing the crowd, Trump quipped that House Speaker Mike Johnson should be informed that Democrats had effectively conceded her seat, prompting explosive cheers and...

Speaking from a crowded airplane hangar in ruby-red western Iowa, President Trump delivered a pitch to farmers — a key group as Republicans fight to hold on to a Senate seat.

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to use the Defense Production Act to bolster domestic oil refining capabilities in the hope of putting downward pressure on record-high diesel and gasoline prices. Trump told a crowd of supporters at a Sioux City, Iowa, campaign rally that he would be invoking the wartime production […]

President Donald Trump traveled to Iowa on Thursday to boost Ashley Hinson, the Republican Senate candidate locked in a tight race with Democrat Josh Turek.

President Donald Trump on Thursday tried to galvanize Republican voters in Iowa, a state he won by double digits two years ago but now faces a tougher battle in the November midterm elections due to dissatisfaction with rising prices and the Iran war.

Obama-endorsed Iowa Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Josh Turek said illegal immigrants should not face immediate deportation during an exchange with NBC News anchor Tom Llamas, while inaccurately linking Republican Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) and Randy Feenstra (R-IA) to the Dignity Act, immigration legislation that would establish a pathway to legal status for certain illegal immigrants. The post Iowa Dem Josh Turek Rejects Immediate Deportation of Illegal Aliens, Incorrectly Links Reps. Miller-Meeks and Feenstra to Dignity Act appeared first on Breitbart .

After Rep. Ashley Hinson dropped off her boys at school earlier this month, she saw the initials "DJT"flash on her phone."'Ashley, it's your favorite president,'"Iowa's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate recently recounted to an audience of her supporters.

Aaron Lehman, president of the Iowa Farmers Union and fifth-generation farmer in Polk County, Iowa, says both diesel prices and tariffs have been devastating for farmers. Lehman says farmers have not felt that an Iowa voice has been standing up for them in Washington and says that while farmers need relief, temporary measures do not address the underlying causes of their financial strain. Lehman says agriculture has a monopoly problem that leaves farmers especially vulnerable when fertilizer supplies are disrupted. Lehman says he finds President Donald Trump's deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to lower diesel costs disturbing. He speaks with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg’s "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)

Also, a top Trump health adviser resigns. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.