"This is not a red state. This is a common-sense state that has masqueraded as more red than we are."

Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, making his pitch to voters in a state where Trump won three consecutive presidential elections but where farmer frustration with tariffs, surging diesel prices and collapsed soybean exports to China is scrambling the political math heading into November's midterms. Turek, a four-time Paralympic wheelchair basketball player born with spina bifida, represents a Republican-leaning district in the Iowa House and is running on what he calls "prairie populism," affordable healthcare, a living wage and opposition to Medicaid cuts. Iowa's governor's race has already moved from "lean Republican" to "toss-up," and Democrats see as many as three of the state's four House seats as competitive. (Bloomberg News)