Iowa Democrats who watched Republicans make additional gains in the legislature following Tuesday’s election results have decided to keep their leader in the house and wait to choose their leader in the senate.

Democrats’ best hope for power in Washington as Donald Trump closes in on the White House hinges on the outcome of a handful of fiercely competitive US House races.

Iowa Democrats had gotten their hopes up, and honestly, how could they not? On Saturday night, J. Ann Selzer—the most renowned pollster in Iowa, if not the entire country—released her final pre-election survey,

For Democrats around the country, the last hope rests in the House. The party lost control of the Senate on Tuesday, as expected. And by the early hours of Wednesday, Decision Desk HQ projected that former President Trump would win the presidency,

With Democrats losing the Senate and on the brink of losing the presidential race, the party’s main hopes resided in the House, where the party was hoping to flip the narrowly divided chamber. As election night stretched into Wednesday,

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