Politico: “Iowa’s transition to a deep-red state has taken place with remarkable speed. Democrats controlled the State Senate as recently as 2016. In 2018, Democrats won three of the state’s four congressional seats and three of the six statewide offices. But after the party’s bungling of its 2020 presidential caucuses, President Donald J.
Trump cruised to victory in Iowa that November.”“The midterm elections last year were a Democratic blood bath in Iowa, even though the party had over-performed in much of the rest of the country.”