Patti Vasquez and guest co-host Matt McNeil are joined by Iowa Senator-elect Catelin Drey.
Drey discussed her August 26 victory in Iowa's Senate District One, where she ran in a special election to replace Republican State Sen. Rocky De Witt, who died in June. With Drey winning the race by an 11-percent margin in a district that favored Donald Trump by 11 points in last November's election, the win made national news for the 22-point swing, pointing to electoral vulnerabilities for the GOP nationally. The win also upended the Republican supermajority in the Iowa Senate
Drey highlighted her campaign's focus on local issues such as affordability, health care, and job security, contrasting her approach with that of her opponent's, whom, she said, used "the national Republican playbook of painting me as a liberal extremist [who] wants open borders and [believes] undocumented people should be able to vote. None of those things are really state issues, when it comes down to it. I was spending my time getting to know my neighbors and talking to them about the things that really mattered."
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