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Upper house of the Iowa General Assembly
The Iowa Senate is the upper house of the Iowa General Assembly. There are 50 seats in the Iowa Senate, representing 50 single-member districts across the state of Iowa with populations of approximately 63,807 per constituency, as of the 2020 United States census. Each Senate district is composed of two House districts. The Senate meets at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.
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American politician and wheelchair basketball player
Joshua Mark Turek is an American politician and wheelchair basketball player serving as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 20th district. He is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Iowa.
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The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a right-wing populist and neo-nationalist political party in the United States, sitting on the right-wing to far-right of the political spectrum. Founded in 1854, it emerged as the main rival of the Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then.
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Democrat Josh Turek is pitching himself as a “common sense prairie populist” focused on workers, rural Iowa and bipartisanship in Iowa’s U.S. Senate race.
In their first debate in the race for U.S. Senate in Iowa, Republican Ashley Hinson and Democrat Josh Turek sparred over the Iran war, immigration, healthcare and their finances. PolitiFact fact-checked some key moments.