Many Iowans cannot remember a time when Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, 89, did not represent them in Washington. He's seeking an eighth term — but faces his toughest race in over 40 years.
Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley poses for a photo outside Atlantic Coca Cola Bottling Co. in Walcott on Oct. 14.Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley poses for a photo outside Atlantic Coca Cola Bottling Co. in Walcott on Oct. 14.Voters in Iowa have already begun filling out their ballots in the 2022 midterm elections. One of the choices they will make this year is whether to send Republican Chuck Grassley back for an eighth term in the U.S. Senate.
"As things have gotten more polarized, so have people and so you should expect a lot of states that were purple to start to shift one direction," explained political science professor Megan Goldberg at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa."[Iowa] has the demographics that like to push us in the rightward direction, not the leftward."
A handful of protesters turn out almost every Friday in the small northeastern Iowa town of McGregor holding signs that say things like"Abortion is Healthcare" and"Women: Vote Like Your Life Depends on it... Because it Does." He has been reelected easily partly because he presents himself as a moderate. But the 89-year-old has learned to embrace Trump like Republican voters have in the state. Grassley accepted his endorsement at a Trump rally in Des Moines last year.