A focus on bread-and-butter issues, not the culture wars, helped an Iowa Democrat win in a red area. His playbook is now ...

Democrat Mike Zimmer is the newest Iowa senator, flipping the Senate District 35 seat in a special election last week. Zimmer won with 52% of the vote to Republican Katie Whittington’s 48%, according ...

Democrat Mike Zimmer is the newest Iowa senator, flipping the Senate District 35 seat in a special election last week. Zimmer won with 52% of the vote to Republican Katie Whittington’s 48%, according ...

Some words may be mispronounced. In a surprise upset Tuesday, a Democrat won the Jan. 28 special election to fill an open seat in the Iowa Senate. In a solidly red Senate District 35, which voted ...

Senate Republicans are advancing a bill to give Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate more authority to gather voter records from ...

Democrat Mike Zimmer is the newest Iowa senator, flipping the Senate District 35 seat in a special election last week. Zimmer won with 52% of the vote to Republican Katie Whittington’s 48% ...

Week 5 of the 2025 Iowa Legislative Session closed with the first major deadline of the year. Individual legislators had ...

Republicans also note their own special election victory in the state’s 10th state Senate district, a reliably red seat. And when it comes to the state Senate seat flip in Iowa, Republicans ...

Iowa has already seen one special legislative election so far this year, in Senate District 35, where Democrat Mike Zimmer scored a surprise victory over Republican Kate Whittington in the seat ...

Democrats are already seeing some small victories in under-the-radar races in the beginning of 2025, with the party hoping they can maintain that energy heading into November as they look to flip ...