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Ahead of the pivotal 2026 midterm elections, Politico reports that a consistently red state is being pushed away from Republicans, all because of a longstanding environmental crisis resulting in cancer-causing water.<\/p>\n

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Once considered a swing state, in the last several election cycles, Iowa has emerged as a solid red state, breaking for President Donald Trump in all three of his races. Despite that trend, there remains a hope among Democrats, backed up by recent polling data, that they might be able to pull off wins in the state this November, given how toxic Trump and the Republican Party are becoming with voters. This is especially true in Iowa, where the president’s economic agenda has caused major pains for the state’s many farmers.<\/p>\n

On top of all that, Politico on Sunday released a report revealing that a long-term ecological crisis is also triggering a “political reckoning” in the Hawkeye State, and it could end up being a disaster for Republicans.<\/p>\n

Chris Jones, the Democratic nominee for Iowa’s secretary of agriculture, told Politico that his “decade as a research engineer, monitoring the state\u2019s rivers and streams,” led him to pursue public office, to address the alarming things he discovered about the state’s rivers and lakes. As the report explained, “Iowa\u2019s lakes and ponds are often murky and fetid from algae blooms fed by fertilizer runoff, a byproduct of the state\u2019s vast agricultural industry\u2019s reliance on farming chemicals.”<\/p>\n

“Iowa has a long-simmering water problem that has finally begun to boil over \u2014 and it\u2019s changing Iowa politics,” Politico explained. “People are angry and worried about the quality of the state\u2019s water, the health risks it poses and its increasingly undeniable tie to the state\u2019s signature industry: agriculture.”<\/p>\n

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It continued: “In recent years, Iowa\u2019s cancer rate has climbed significantly above the U.S. average. It now stands as the nation\u2019s second highest, and Iowa is one of only three states where the rate is rising. The situation has put a spotlight on nitrates, which are linked to a growing body of science to kidney, brain and ovarian cancer. Nitrates are a key component in the deluge of chemical pesticides and fertilizers used by the state\u2019s farmers, some of which washes off farm fields and into waterways. A second culprit is glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, the world\u2019s most common weedkiller, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer declared ‘probably carcinogenic’ in 2015, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.”<\/p>\n

While candidates on both sides have long been wary of tackling issues stemming from Iowa’s all-important farming industry, things are different this year. Voters are “steaming mad” about the impact these chemicals are having, and as a result, candidates from both parties have taken aim at the industry, and found success doing so. In a development that is “scrambling” the common understanding of Iowa’s politics, “some of those winning candidates are Democrats.”<\/p>\n

“In the Republican primary for governor, a businessman, farmer and political operative named Zach Lahn shocked the political establishment by edging out Trump-endorsed Rep. Randy Feenstra for the nomination,” Politico explained. “Lahn won, in part, by openly acknowledging the state\u2019s water crisis and connecting the dots between agriculture and cancer. Lahn was also the first candidate for statewide office endorsed by MAHA Action, the main PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s Make America Healthy Again movement. MAHA voters supported Kennedy and President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, but have since rebelled against some of their moves, especially the Trump administration\u2019s open support for glyphosate.”<\/p>\n

It continued: “As for the Democrats, they have their best shot in a decade or more of winning statewide offices in November\u2019s election. Democrat Josh Turek is neck-and-neck in recent polling with Republican Ashley Hinson in the open race for U.S. Senate. And Lahn\u2019s Democratic opponent, Rob Sand, bested him by one percentage point, within the margin of error, in recent polling in the governor\u2019s race.”<\/p>\n

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