Jeff Kaufmann has been Iowa Republicans’ state party leader since 2015. In that decade, Iowa Republicans have gone from sharing control of state and federal government in Iowa with Democrats to near unfettered control and historic majorities.
Oliver Weilein won the Iowa City Council special election primary Tuesday with 69 percent of the votes cast in District C. Ross Nusser finished second with 27 percent of the vote.
U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and a former state senator joined President Donald Trump's lawsuit against pollster Ann Selzer, the Des Moines Register and the newspaper's parent company, Gannett.
Democrats Tuesday flipped seat in the Iowa Senate in a special election held to replace Republican Sen. Chris Cournoyer, who was named as Iowa's lieutenant governor, but Democrats still will be far outnumbered in the chamber.
Remaining candidates address questions about how they would approach state, federal policies that affect Iowa City residents.
Campaign fundraising for state candidates who were not on the ballot in 2024 were due Tuesday.
A panel of contest court judges ruled 2-1 Monday that a narrowly-passed $15 million bond issue at Highland schools would stand, even though Ainsworth precinct officials mistakenly gave ballots to 96 voters who were not school district residents, and should not have been allowed to vote on the matter.
Only residents of Iowa City’s District C are eligible to vote in the primary on Feb. 4, but all city residents can vote in the general election, which will be March 4. District C includes downtown Iowa City and north-central Iowa City.
The Iowa City Council’s District C seat is vacant after Andrew Dunn’s resignation took effect Jan. 1. Three people have filed to run for the office.
3 file papers to seek vacant District C position
Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings Monday that unfolded without challenge, in stark contrast to the Jan. 6, 2021, violence as his mob of supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Republican Party of Iowa chairman Jeff Kaufmann, who has not yet decided whether to run for another term, expressed confidence that Iowa Republicans will not lose their first-in-the-nation caucus status as have Iowa Democrats
This is the final step in the certification process before the votes are sent to the Office of the Federal Registrar and then Congress.
The pollster, whose sterling reputation took a hit when it missed the Trump-Harris result in Iowa by 17 points, said she has seen nothing in the polling data that should have signaled the results were off
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