On Tuesday, Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey stunned Republicans by winning a deep-red state Senate seat, breaking the GOP’s supermajority in Des Moines.

Her 10-percentage-point victory in state Senate District 1 over Republican Christopher Prosch, according to the unofficial election results, is the latest in a run of Democratic special election wins that are rattling the GOP ahead of next year’s midterms.

The district, anchored in the Sioux City area, had been solidly Republican. President Donald Trump carried it by 12 points in 2024, according to data from The Downballot, and GOP state Sen. Rocky De Witt won by 10 points just three years ago, before he died in June. Drey’s double-digit margin marks a 22-point swing from Trump’s result—an electoral earthquake in a district long considered sa

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