TopicsPosts Tagged ‘analysis’
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
Sand picks western Iowa cattleman Dave Muhlbauer as running mate
Douglas Burns is a fourth-generation Iowa journalist. He is the co-founder of the Western Iowa Journalism Foundation and a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, where this article first appeared on The Iowa Mercury newsletter. His family operated the Carroll Times Herald for 93 years in Carroll, Iowa where Burns resides. Democratic candidate for governor Rob Sand has selected Crawford…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
Chuck Grassley’s revealing, unscripted moment
Iowa’s longest-serving member of Congress forgot that every mic is potentially a hot mic. What Senator Chuck Grassley blurted out during a Judiciary Committee hearing this week highlighted an unwritten rule for Republicans: they must humor President Donald Trump’s lies and delusions. “What would be wrong if they said Biden won?” For those who haven’t seen the viral moment from…Read More