The court's unanimous decision leaves Abby Finkenauer as the likely front-runner in a race with two lesser-known candidates ahead of Iowa's June 7 primary. The winner will run against Chuck Grassley, provided he wins a GOP primary.
While national Democrats are reshuffling their presidential nominating schedule, which could knock Iowa off its envious perch, national Republicans recommitted to keeping Iowa first.
State Sen. Liz Mathis, who is challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, ended the quarter with more than $1.3 million cash on hand and has raised over $1.9 million in the 2022 election cycle. She trails Hinson’s cash on hand by less than $500,000.
In endorsing Sen. Grassley, Stefanik noted his efforts since 2019 to uncover “deeply troubling financial entanglements of the Biden family and the communist Chinese regime” involving President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and brother, James Biden.
Democrat Deidre DeJear is finding Iowa a much changed place, trending staunchly conservative, endorsing many aspects of Trumpism, with an electorate that is so far displaying little interest in her history-making candidacy.
Finkenauer will ask the Iowa Supreme Court to reverse a Sunday night ruling by a Polk County District Court judge that she did not submit enough signatures on nomination petitions to qualify for the Democratic primary, preventing her from facing likely GOP nominee U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley in the November general election.
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The Democratic candidates – former U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer of Cedar Rapids, retired Admiral Michael Franken of Sioux City and Minden physician Glenn Hurst – agree that removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is important, but question proposals to move it through pipelines from Iowa ethanol plants to sequestration sites in other states.
A poll conducted for Cedar Rapids Democrat Abby Finkenauer shows her with a nearly 50-point lead over her nearest competitor in the three-way June 7 primary for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination to face Sen. Chuck Grassley.
In Iowa’s U.S. Senate race, Sioux City Democrat Michael Franken says he’s raised nearly $1.4 million from more than 36,000 unique donors “without one dime of corporate PAC money,.”
A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Polk County District Court on the
Also, two of the three Democrats running in Iowa’s U.S. Senate primary are scheduled to participate in a candidate forum in Delhi.
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for capping the monthly cost of insulin. However, experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin.
The 2022 Iowa primaries are today, June 7. Here is a list of candidates for U.S. and statewide offices who appear on ballots.
The filing asks the district court to reverse a state panel’s decision, or require the panel to reconsider the objections to the signatures on Finkenauer’s nominating petitions for his U.S. Senate bid.
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