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With Trump’s low approval rating and Republicans’ ‘self-destruction’, can Democrats take the Senate?
Even with the Iran war weighing Trump’s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber blue
The county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: “Capital of the World”.
The moniker is not entirely off-base, for decisions made here have, in their own way, reverberated across the globe. Louisa is among a band of counties along the Mississippi River that backed Barack Obama both times he was on the presidential ballot, before, like Iowa as a whole, flipping to Donald Trump in 2016 and growing increasingly Republican each time he was on the ballot.
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Chris Stein in Columbus Junction, Iowa; David Smith in Crescent Springs, Kentucky; and George Chidi in Lawrenceville, Georgia · Sat, May 9, 2026, 11:27 AM
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Even with the Iran war weighing Trump’s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber blue
The county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: “Capital of the World”.
The moniker is not entirely off-base, for decisions made here have, in their own way, reverberated across the globe. Louisa is among a band of counties along the Mississippi River that backed Barack Obama both times he was on the presidential ballot, before, like Iowa as a whole, flipping to Donald Trump in 2016 and growing increasingly Republican each time he was on the ballot.
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