Articles Tagged: Jim Carlin

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.

Also, state legislator Dave Jacoby endorses Zach Wahls in Democratic U.S. Senate race

More than 2,000 fairgoers participated in the nonscientific straw poll conducted by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office

Campaign fundraising from April through June in Iowa’s 2026 U.S. Senate election was competitive between some of the top candidates, according to new federal campaign reports filed Tuesday. But Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst holds a hefty financial advantage over all challengers — should she choose to run for re-election.

Iowa Republican and former state lawmaker Jim Carlin criticized U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst's voting record, calling her a “phony” politician during a campaign launch event Thursday in Cedar Rapids.

This week on the podcast, we discuss U.S. senate candidates in Iowa. Plus, backlash to and fallout from Gov. Kim Reynolds’ veto of pipeline and property rights legislation.

Iowa Republican and former state lawmaker Jim Carlin announced Friday he is once again running for the U.S. Senate, this time seeking to challenge incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst in the 2026 Iowa GOP primary.

Franken, a U.S. Navy veteran from Sioux City, decisively defeated former Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer

Tuesday’s primary election features competitive campaigns for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and Iowa Secretary of State

Grassley, who is completing his seventh six-year term in the U.S. Senate, is being challenged by a fellow Republican, attorney and state legislator Jim Carlin

Differences over a hard line on when to send U.S. troops to Ukraine and over ethanol policy were among the few to emerge during a televised debate between the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate in Iowa on Saturday night.

The Grassley Works campaign has $4,600,001 cash on hand, according to Federal Election Commission first quarter reports. His three Democratic challengers have a combined $1,831,396 in their treasuries.

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,.”

Sioux City Republican Jim Carlin is hinting he may step down from the state Senate before the new legislative session begins in January to concentrate full time on his U.S. Senate campaign.