{"id":77953,"date":"2026-08-27T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/iowa-dem-gubernatorial-candidate-says-he-would-not-want-biden-or-harris-to-campaign-for-him\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:57:07","slug":"iowa-dem-gubernatorial-candidate-says-he-would-not-want-biden-or-harris-to-campaign-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/iowa-dem-gubernatorial-candidate-says-he-would-not-want-biden-or-harris-to-campaign-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Dem gubernatorial candidate says he would not want Biden or Harris to campaign for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/midwest\/iowa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa<\/a> Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand flatly stated that he would not want to have former President Joe Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris campaign for him.<\/p>\n<p>When Politico&#8217;s Jonathan Martin asked Sand if he would want Biden to campaign for him, the candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MIp9HRxMWlc?si=ckzueKBc9FYFoOp5&amp;t=1185\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, &#8220;No. Can he even do that right now? I&#8217;m sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No thanks,&#8221; Sand said after Martin asked about Harris. &#8220;Let&#8217;s move on. We need some new leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-endorsed-feenstra-concedes-maha-backed-lahn-gop-governor-primary-upset\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TRUMP-ENDORSED FEENSTRA CONCEDES TO MAHA-BACKED LAHN IN GOP GOVERNOR PRIMARY UPSET<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t think Harris should run in 2028?&#8221; Martin asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nope,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<p>When Al Sharpton asked Harris in April if she <span class=\"suggestion-underline suggestion-copy-editor\">will<\/span> run again in 2028, she said &#8220;I might&#8221; and noted that she was &#8220;thinking about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/obama-endorses-democratic-iowa-state-rep-running-us-senate-against-trump-backed-house-republican\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>OBAMA ENDORSES DEMOCRATIC IOWA STATE REP RUNNING FOR US SENATE AGAINST TRUMP-BACKED HOUSE REPUBLICAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden, who was already the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, dropped his re-election bid in 2024 in the wake of a widely-panned debate performance and endorsed Harris, who went on to lose the general election to then-former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Sand, the Iowa auditor of state, is running against Trump-backed Republican Zach Lahn in the state&#8217;s 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/gubernatorial\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">gubernatorial<\/a> race.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump declared in a part of a Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116897087893823307\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> last month, &#8220;It is my Great Honor to endorse America First Patriot, Zach Lahn, a tremendous Candidate running to be the next Governor of the Wonderful State of Iowa, a place I love and WON BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/iowa-gubernatorial-hopeful-zach-lahn-tells-ruthless-democrats-hiding-bad-policies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IOWA GUBERNATORIAL HOPEFUL ZACH LAHN TELLS &#8216;RUTHLESS&#8217; DEMOCRATS ARE HIDING THEIR BAD POLICIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"suggestion-underline suggestion-copy-editor\">Current <\/span>Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/iowa-governor-kim-reynolds-not-seek-re-election-206\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced last year<\/a> that she would not seek re-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand flatly stated that he would not want to have former President Joe Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris campaign for him. When Politico&#8217;s Jonathan Martin asked Sand if he would want Biden to campaign for him, the candidate said, &#8220;No. Can he even do that right now? I&#8217;m &#8230; <a title=\"Iowa Dem gubernatorial candidate says he would not want Biden or Harris to campaign for him\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/iowa-dem-gubernatorial-candidate-says-he-would-not-want-biden-or-harris-to-campaign-for-him\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Iowa Dem gubernatorial candidate says he would not want Biden or Harris to campaign for him\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77953","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=77953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}