Iowa’s Water Crisis Crashed the Midterms

As Democrats flipped state and federal seats, farm runoff and cancer concerns infiltrated nearly every race.

By: John McCracken

Outlets: Sentient

Published: November 4, 2026

Words: 970

Last Updated: 5 days, 3 hours ago

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Iowa voters exemplified a national trend of flipping federal House and Senate seats from red to blue on Tuesday night, while also electing the state’s first Democratic governor in 20 years and ousting a Republican attorney general with deep financial ties to corporate agriculture.

Rob Sand won the governor’s seat against his MAHA opponent Zach Lahn. Josh Turek’s win in Iowa clinched Democratic control of the Senate last night. Nate Willems bested incumbent attorney general …

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