{"id":74358,"date":"2026-06-02T21:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/iowa-democrat-josh-turek-to-face-trump-backed-ashley-hinson-in-bid-to-flip-red-senate-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:58:16","slug":"iowa-democrat-josh-turek-to-face-trump-backed-ashley-hinson-in-bid-to-flip-red-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/iowa-democrat-josh-turek-to-face-trump-backed-ashley-hinson-in-bid-to-flip-red-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa: Democrat Josh Turek to face Trump-backed Ashley Hinson in bid to flip red Senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Establishment Democrat beats Zach Wahls in primary as party eyes success in Republican-dominated state<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/iowa\">Iowa<\/a> voters cast their ballots in Tuesday\u2019s heated primaries for months of fervent campaigning ahead of the November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-midterm-elections-2026\">midterms<\/a>, contests that could determine the balance of power in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>A red state that the GOP has dominated for the past decade, Democrats believe they can be competitive in three of its four House races, its Senate election, and the contest to replace Kim Reynolds, the retiring Republican governor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/02\/iowa-primary-election-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Establishment Democrat beats Zach Wahls in primary as party eyes success in Republican-dominated state Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Iowa voters cast their ballots in Tuesday\u2019s heated primaries for months of fervent campaigning ahead of the November midterms, contests that could determine the balance of power in Congress. A red state &#8230; <a title=\"Iowa: Democrat Josh Turek to face Trump-backed Ashley Hinson in bid to flip red Senate seat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/iowa-democrat-josh-turek-to-face-trump-backed-ashley-hinson-in-bid-to-flip-red-senate-seat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Iowa: Democrat Josh Turek to face Trump-backed Ashley Hinson in bid to flip red Senate seat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}