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as posted by the channelIowa has been a safe red state for almost a decade. That’s why it was so shocking when the state’s largest paper, the Des Moines Register, dropped a poll shortly before the 2024 election showing Kamala Harris was ahead of Donald Trump.
As it turned out, Trump easily won the Hawkeye State for a third time. And Trump being Trump decided to sue the paper, its parent company, Gannett, and the well-respected pollster, J. Ann Selzer, just like he’s sued ABC and CBS/Paramount over stories he didn’t like. Will this be yet another example of corporate media bending the knee? We’ll have to see.
To find out what’s going on with Iowa politics today, we talked to Zachary Oren Smith of Iowa Starting Line, which is part of COURIER, a new-media company that’s committed to doing fearless journalism in our communities.
Lincoln Square Executive Editor Susan J. Demas lived in Iowa for a decade, but has watched the state shift hard right since leaving in 2004. One of the turning points was the 2014 election of Republican Joni Ernst to the U.S. Senate, replacing longtime Democratic Senator Tom Harkin.
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