With two marquee statewide races and a state economy especially rattled by Trump’s trade
war, Iowa’s marginalized Democratic Party sees glimmers of hope for climbing back into competition with the Republicans.
The Republicans took full control of the state’s congressional delegation after the 2022 election. The following year, the national Democratic Party stripped the state of its first-in-the-nation status in the presidential nominating process. And in November, Donald Trump carried Iowa by 13 percentage points, his largest margin of victory there in three elections.
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