Annette Sweeney won the special election tonight to replace former Senator Bill Dix, defeating Democrat Tracy Freese 56% to 44% in the heavily-Republican Senate District 25. She will be sworn into office in the near future, though it might not happen before the...
State Representative Abby Finkenauer will post another strong fundraising total for her bid to take on Congressman Rod Blum in Iowa's highly-targeted 1st District. Finkenauer's campaign tells Starting Line they raised over $480,000 in the 1st quarter of 2018,...
While most of the attention will be focused on the governor's race and congressional primaries for the next two months, key match-ups for the Iowa Statehouse will be decided on June 5 as well. While many primaries for the Iowa House and Senate are lower profile...
Yet another person in the Iowa Senate has lost their job over a sexual harassment matter. Senator Waylon Brown's legislative clerk, Jake Dagel, was fired this week following a complaint made against him for sexual harassment. Secretary of the Senate Charlie...
The fallout for Sinclair Broadcasting stations continue after a viral video showed them all reading from the same script about "fake news." Leann Jacobsen, one of the Democratic candidates looking to take on Steve King in Iowa's 4th Congressional District, is...
Cindy Axne is getting a big boost in her bid to win Democrats' nomination for Iowa's 3rd Congressional District. EMILY's List is announcing this morning that they're endorsing the small businesswoman from West Des Moines. The backing from the influential national...
Exactly two months remain until Democrats decide who they want as their gubernatorial nominee in an incredibly crucial election for the future of Iowa. The candidates continue to criss-cross the state and put in extremely long hours to raise money and meet voters,...
District 62 Representative Ras Smith & District 77 Representative Amy Nielsen join Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard to discuss what's been going on at the Statehouse. Let us know what you think about this episode by...
For all the drama that occurred with Theresa Greenfield's ballot and signatures situation, little attention was paid to the other developments in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District race a few weeks back. Iowa political news was pretty wild for the entire month of...
Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard discusses possible Democratic candidates for Lt. Governor with former Jack Hatch campaign manager Grant Woodard, followed by an interview with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nate Boulton....
