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In nearly any other primary or general election in recent memory, the accusation that a Republican candidate not only supported abortion but had materially participated in one would have been big news — if not a political kiss of death. Not this year. Rising fuel and food costs have not only squeezed the wallets of [...]

The Ed Fallon-Leonard Boswell race isn’t the only Iowa congressional primary where party loyalty and campaign finance have become issues. A six-year-old campaign donation has become a point of contention between the three Republicans running in the 2nd Congressional District.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Lee Harder are attacking Peter Teahen for giving Democrat Julie Thomas $250 in [...]

The only contested Republican U.S. House primary in Iowa will take center stage Saturday at the 2nd Congressional District convention in Iowa City.

Lee Harder, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, and Peter Teahen will face off in the June 3 primary for the right to face first term Democrat Dave Loebsack in November.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Rathje is the first, and so far only, candidate to file for Tom Harkin’s Senate seat.  While the Senator, and Iowa’s five U.S. representatives, have all signaled their plans to seek re-election, none of the state’s D.C. delegation filed at the Secretary of State’s office through the close of last [...]