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Editor’s Note: This story is the first in a series that looks at how and why Iowa residents moved away from Democrats and lined up behind President Donald Trump and other Republicans.

Tami Haught has spent decades of her life on political advocacy.

Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS 33 years ago, she dedicated many weeks at the Iowa Capitol starting in 2005, urging lawmakers to reform HIV criminalization laws and allocate more funding toward a program that ensures access to medications for those with HIV/AIDS who are uninsured and underinsured.

Sitting in the Northeast Iowa Welcome Center entrance on Aug. 8 in Nashua, the town where Haught lives, she pointed to poster boards packed with photos of her a

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