Iowa Returns to Its Battleground Status for the Midterm Elections

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For today’s Washington Edition I talked with Bloomberg’s Catherine Lucey about Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Iowa to campaign alongside Republican Representative Zach Nunn. She’s our resident Iowa politics expert, having reported in the state from 2013 to 2017, including covering then-candidate Donald Trump’s first appearance at the Iowa State Fair. She’s been back regularly since moving to Washington. The exchange was edited for brevity and clarity.