Articles Tagged: Josh Turek

Council Bluffs Mayor-elect Jill Shudak said her endorsement of Wahls is not against another Democratic candidate, state Rep. Josh Turek of Council Bluffs, who represents the city in the Iowa legislature.

Iowa Democratic candidates running for Congress urged members of their party to only support a deal to end the government shutdown if it includes extensions for health care subsidies, as lawmakers neared an agreement.

At a Cedar Rapids church, three Democratic U.S. Senate candidates — Josh Turek, Zach Wahls, and Nathan Sage — reflected on the Black national anthem’s lessons of unity, hope and perservearance, sharing personal stories that shape their priorities on healthcare, equity, and economic justice.

As the shutdown disrupts food aid and open enrollment begins, Iowa Democrats Zach Wahls and Josh Turek urged Republicans to act on health care and hunger. Hinson’s campaign countered that Democrats are “using vulnerable Iowans as leverage” in the standoff.

Highlights from recently filed campaign fundraising reports for Iowa’s candidates in the state’s 2026 U.S. Senate election

Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s announcement that she will not seek a third term in office creates an open seat for the 2026 election. Not since 2014 — and only four times in nearly six decades — has a U.S. Senate election in Iowa been without an incumbent. Here’s who is — and isn’t — running for the seat.

Turek, a former Paralympic athlete, is one of five Democrats seeking the party’s nomination in Iowa’s 2026 U.S. Senate election.

How does Joni Ernst’s decision to not seek reelection impact Iowa’s 2026 elections?

In today’s roundup of campaign news, former Iowa U.S. Rep. Rod Blum weighs a congressional comeback, and another Republican announces he’s entering the primary for Iowa’s 4th Congressional District.

Former Pine Lake State Park manager Don Primus, of Steamboat Rock, unsuccessfully ran for Hardin County supervisor in 2020.

This week on the podcast, we’ll talk about candidates entering and exiting races and last weekend’s story about the new approach some Iowa Democrats are using on the campaign trail. Plus, a special election in Western Iowa for a seat in the Iowa Legislature.

Rivals no more, the two Iowa legislators hit the campaign trail together with an event in Council Bluffs.

J.D. Scholten is dropping out of the crowded Democratic primary in Iowa’s U.S. Senate election, and endorsing fellow Democratic state legislator Josh Turek, who just announced his candidacy this past week.

Iowa’s crowded field of Democrats running for U.S. Senate in 2026 pitched themselves and their campaigns to an audience of party members as they gear up for next year’s primary.

Plus, two more Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, and how Democratic candidates are talking to voters thus far this cycle.