Trump tariffs have Democrats seeing an outside chance in this red state

[Dulcinea]

(Washington Post) For Iowa Democrats, it has been a difficult several years.

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.

But with two marquee statewide races - and a state economy that is especially rattled by Trump’s trade war - Iowa Democrats say they are sensing an opportunity to claw back into competition with the Republicans.

Democrats are looking to seriously contest the newly open governor’s race, the U.S. Senate contest and most of the state’s U.S. House races next year, though the odds are squarely against them. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the two statewide contests as “Solid Republican,” and Democrats last flipped a House seat in Iowa in 2018.

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[RockCreek]

1. It needs to be contested

Now is the time things could change.
(Assuming elections are not overly manipulated.)