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Donald Trump basing a nightmare scenario in Iowa. Donald Trump's polling in Iowa is approval, net-negative-20 in Iowa. And when you look at the Democratic surge in Iowa right now, Donald Trump is just destroying the Republican Party there. The Democratic candidate for Governor in Iowa, Rob Sand, is ahead of Zach Lan, who is the
Republican candidate there. By the way, Donald Trump endorsed Zach Lan's a opponent, Randy Fiendstra, Donald Trump couldn't even get his own pick for Governor, and a guy from Kansas, Zach Lan ended up getting the nomination.
“That's how much people hate Donald Trump that Trump's hand-picked maga puppet wasn't”
even selected. Then you have all of the indications that Iowa is turning blue that we've been covering you on the mightestudge network all year long, and frankly, for the past 18 months or so. Remember, back in August of 2025, Democrat Katelyn Jray flipped Iowa Senate District 1, a district that Trump won by 11.5 points in 2024.
Remember, when the Democrat Renee Hardman won the Iowa State Senate District 16, with 71.5 members and a 27 point Democrat over performance from 2024, go way back to January 28, 2025, when Dems flipped a Trump plus 21 seat over there with Democrat Mike Zimmer in Iowa, and folks, the Iowa congressional candidates, the maga Republican candidates, and maga Republican Congress members, they are out there hiding, like maga Republican Congresswoman Miller
Meeks, who said, "Why would I ever do a town hall? I'll do one with health reasons over."
Here's what she previously said, play this clip.
Todd, you know, Barton is Cedar Rapids Gazette, wins near Miller, makes going to hold in the town hall. When health reasons over, you know, I don't have to hold a town hall so you can come and yell at me. You can yell at me at the county fair, and you did.
Because here's what the town halls look like when Chuck Grassley, maga Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, did a town hall. I'll just give you a taste of what went down here. Play this clip. I have a system created, and evaluation of the Constitution.
My question to you is why do you believe that President Trump is above the law, and just
“reinforce or other people have been saying here, why have you not spoken out for it?”
Yes, sir. Now, I reflect on Donald Trump's trip to Iowa back on January 27, 2026, and remember what Donald Trump told the people of Iowa back then when he was speaking at some weird rally, where he said, "We've got a beautiful, our moda, help heading to Iran, everybody in Iowa." It's floating beautifully toward Iran.
I hope they make a deal. Trump was talking about the fake deal stuff with Iran back on January 27, 2026, in this footage that I've surfaced, he was in Iowa when he was saying that. He replied this clip. And just, by the way, there's another beautiful, our moda, floating beautifully toward Iran
right now, so we'll see. I hope they make a deal. I hope they make a deal.
They should have made a deal the first time they'd have a country.
So you go there, and you fast forward to Friday when Donald Trump held that, what, what anyone would call it that horrific, weird event in Wisconsin, where he was speaking to farmers, and he said, "Farmers, you have such a nice, safe, beautiful life. You don't get your ear pierced like me. You don't get your ear pierced.
What are you talking about here, play this clip?" Or small business. Now, I saw it myself. You have a way of life that sometimes you're a land rich and cash poor, sometimes you have lots of different conditions, but people that are on farms love being on farms. You wouldn't trade my life, you wouldn't want my life, believe me, you don't want it.
Your life is much better than my life. I will tell you, your ear wasn't a little pierced over here, you didn't get pierced. You have a nice, safe, beautiful life, but I see it. Now, more data points emerging as well in Iowa, you have amongst independence, the Democratic
Senate candidate, Josh Turck, who just won his primary leading by 17 points a...
there. That's big news as well. You know what? Why don't we bring in Turck right now, because there's a lot going on in Iowa. I want to bring in the Democratic Senate candidate for Iowa and it compelling, individual,
who's just been an incredible beacon of light in Iowa. Let's bring in Josh Turck. Josh, it's great to see you. You've had John numerous times before first and foremost, I just want to congratulate you for winning the primary and now, let's get right into it, because the general election
is right around the corner for the mid-terms for the Senate seat, something special is happening in Iowa right now and for our viewers who haven't been following what's happening in Iowa.
“I think a lot of them are, though, really going back to the beginning of Trump term.”
You know, early on, when Trump was doing the tariffs against the world, to me, Iowa
was always the biggest indicator, frankly of what was happening nationally in some of your
states, Senate seats, and then we saw it wasn't a fluke, and then it kind of continued. And I think with your victory, even frankly, what we're seeing on the Republican side, for example, in the gubernatorial race, where a Trump back candidate Randy Fiendstra was defeated by the person who Trump did an endorse, a further right-wing candidate Zach Lang, because I think on all sides in Iowa right now, people are fed up with Trump.
So I'll stop yapping if you can tell me what, what do you see happen in Iowa right now, Josh? Well, thanks for having me, it's great to see you again. Yeah, there's something special that's happening here in Iowa. Finally got some sleep and some rest has been a world win over the last 48 hours, but
we ended up winning 96 of the 99 counties, 26 point margin, and now on to Ashley Hinson,
“as I've been saying for the last 10 months, Iowa's going to be the center of the political”
universe. And it's because of bad policies that Ashley Hinson have supported. The Trump terrorist have led Iowa to leading the nation in foreign foreclosures everywhere that we're going in the rural communities and talking with farmers. We keep hearing about farmers being betrayed and being upside down on their commodities
prices, where state that is dead last for economic growth, 48 for personal income growth, one of two states already in an economic decline. We've closed 250 more health care clinics, and we've opened in the last 15 years, two and five islands are on Medicaid, Ashley Hinson voted for the big beautiful bill. 110,000 islands, loser health care thousands more lose food assistance.
She didn't support the ACA subsidies, 119,000, I wouldn't see their health care premiums. Double or triple, four times she voted in favor of the terrorists that have led us to this
farm again in this second farm crisis, and it's now 10 times more wealthy in her time
in DC after not supporting initially a ban on stock trading. Iwans are fed up, they've had enough, and they're ready for change, they're ready for common sense, pray populous like myself. Ashley Hinson, Magger Republic and Congresswoman, we did, our audience may remember we showed the two town halls that she did a while back where she was booed when she was really
“just gaslighting the audience saying, you're all doing better, what are you talking about?”
You're not rich, you're not rich, everybody, you're not great. This is the goal and everyone's like, no, we're not. What are you talking about? We know Ashley Hinson, the lies and the maga sick event that she is talking to. To our audience who haven't met you yet, if they haven't seen a video, tell them about who
you are. Sure.
I'm a state representative, Josh Tarrick, I'm one of the first primary disabled members
of the Iowa legislature, the Iowa capital wasn't even accessible when I, when I first ran and born and raised in Councilble, Iowa, working class family and in a working class community. My family, we went to the goodwill for clothes, we shared clothes, had the wrong color, lunch tickets.
I was born with a, with a disability, as born with a condition called Spina Bifida, student of my father's exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. So I had my first surgery at one day old, I had 21 surgeries by the time I was 12. Thankfully, for me, found wheelchair basketball because wheelchair basketball was able to get a college education and went on to win, to be in four pair of them.
It games, one back-to-back-goed medals, representing the USA and wheelchair basketball. I've been a director of a nonprofit organization for disabled kids and got involved in politics four years ago, because we were seeing the privatization of Medicaid was leading to a thousand percent increase in denouerate. I was working, assessing and providing mobility devices like power wheelchairs for individuals
with progressive conditions like muscular dystrophy and new gerages and over and over, we were seeing people that were just being denied, denied, denied healthcare. And I thought it was fundamentally wrong and found out that Iowa hadn't had a disabled member
Of the legislature.
One in five eye, ones are disabled, capital wasn't even accessible, it's got to be because
“of this complete total lack of representation is why we're seeing all these barriers”
to healthcare and to employment. And so I decided to run and I went out there and drug my wheelchair upstairs every single day, Rainer Shine, hot or cold, to win my first election. It was the only Democrat to win a competitive election on the Western side of the state, to win by the grand total of six votes and turned around in this most recent election.
And the two communities that I represent, Trump won, a cartilage by 18 points and won my hometown, a community of council boss by 10.
I was able to win my district by nearly six points, that was 50 percent more over performance
than any other Democrat in the state. And now, I've taken my message of common sense, prairie populism around the state because we've got a once-in-a-generation opportunity to be able to win Senator Harkin's seat back. He was the father of the American with Disabilities Act and it's because of senators like him and good common sense by partisan legislation like the ADA that I've been able
to win the American dream. And now I want to go out there and fight so that the American dream continues for the
“next generation of I ones and for Americans because we're living through this second”
field at age and it's the have and the have nots. We've had people like Ashley Henson that are just looking out for the house. The billionaires, the large corporations, the donors and the lobbyists and we need more people like myself that are going to go out there and fight for the more vulnerable folks. Now, this past week, we saw Treasury Secretary Scott Besson testify before Congress.
So, agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins, testify before Congress. And if you just listen to both of them, they would be telling you that the farmers in Iowa
have never had it better, that they are crushing it and Treasury Secretary Besson said,
"I'm a farmer," he said, and so I know what the farmers are going through and I don't know what you're talking about, things are great. And then agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins said, "Yeah, no, things actually have never been better when she goes when I speak to the farmers, whether it's in Iowa or elsewhere, they just tell me that this is the golden age that we promise them."
So, she goes, "I don't know what you're talking about," because I would see all these Democratic Congress members, kind of cross-examining them and agriculture secretary Rollins had this look like, "What are you talking? You couldn't be further from the truth. Farmers in the American people in states like, "I've never been better in their lives.
“What do you say to Treasury Secretary Besson, I think, also trying to steal the valor”
of the farmer, and agriculture secretary Rollins?" I think there's been a lot of time with the bureaucratic billionaire farmers in DC and none of time with farmers in Iowa. What I can tell you is in Iowa every single place that we're going, we're hearing farmers that are terrified.
I mean, is this scary place to be a farmer in Iowa right now? It is what I'm calling the farmer again, and it is a second farm crisis. Farm suicide rates are skyrocketing, we lead the nation in farm foreclosures. Everywhere we're going, we're hearing farmers say, "Talk about betrayal," they're
they're talking about how Trump administration gives 20 billion dollars to Argentina.
Meanwhile, our Iowa farmers are upside down on their soybean prices and they can't make ends me. And it's not just on bad tariff policy that actually hints and supported four times. It's that we've done nothing on breaking up monopolies, which have led to input prices going up a hundred percent.
We've done nothing on vertical integration. We haven't passed a right to repair, which I've focused on here in the Iowa legislature because farmers need to be able to repair their equipment in timely manner. We don't have mandatory of country of origin labeling, which is why we've lost a hundred thousand beef producers.
We haven't passed a damn farm bill for two years overdue, and we haven't had anybody this going out there to actually fight for our rural communities, our farmers, or small family farmers. You go in these rural communities, I promise you. Trump signs, Trump flags, they're coming down.
These are communities that have been hollowed out. The small businesses have been decimated, they have lost their pharmacies, they've lost their grocery stores, they are losing their health care clinics because of votes like the big beautiful bill, and now they're losing their schools because here in Iowa, we're giving private schools public money, and we haven't had anybody that's been out there actually
looking out for our farmers and our rural communities, it is a scary place to be a farmer right now in Iowa, and I'm ready to go out there and actually fight for them and for our rural communities. So this isn't the last generation of small family farms we see in Iowa. Josh, where can people learn more about the Senate campaign and any message you want to
deliver to our seven million subscribers? Absolutely. Well, it's right here, it's behind me, Turek, for Iowa, it's Turek, T-U-R-E-K, the number for Iowa.com. What I would say is this is a generational chance, this is the first time since 1968, we've
got an open governor's race and open Senate race to open congressional races. This is a state that can be won in Trump's first midterm. We won three of the four congressional races, we've got polling that has showed me leading
Hints in by two points, the most recent polling, showing this race tied.
We can win this race, and if we can win here in Iowa, we not only generationally change
“the state of Iowa, we will change this country.”
Iowa's are ready for a common sense prairie populace like myself, I'm battle tested, I'm
doing the work, and we can win this Senate race, and we can change this country together with all of your health.
Josh, Turek, great to see you again.
Great to see you, my friend. Thank you.
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