Trump already making excuses for Feenstra endorsement

President Donald Trump now says he wasn’t “given the proper information” before he endorsed U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra for governor, days before Iowa’s primary election. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on June 11, Trump bragged about his “amazing track record” in GOP primaries, claiming, “Every time I endorse, they win.” A journalist followed up to ask whether the…Read More

Ohio Senate Candidates Spar Over Donations Tied, Loosely or Not, to Epstein

Ohio voters are witnessing a battle of campaign television ads as each Senate candidate tries to tie the other to Jeffrey Epstein — by way of donations from those with some link to the late convicted sex offender. Democrat Sherrod Brown’s campaign charges that Republican Sen. Jon Husted “took more money from Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators than anyone else in Washington,…Read More

Why Iowa won’t join the gerrymandering stampede

President Donald Trump got the ball rolling when he demanded that Texas adopt a new map creating five more Republican-held U.S. House seats. The U.S. Supreme Court escalated the redistricting “arms race” by blowing up what remains of the Voting Rights Act. Since the summer of 2025, nine GOP-controlled states and two states with Democratic trifectas have either adopted new…Read More