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ACCORDING TO THE UNIVERSITY, THE RACE FOR ONE OF IOWA’S U.S. SENATE SEATS IS HEATING UP. STATE SENATOR ZACH WAHLS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED HIS 2020 CAMPAIGN TODAY. HE JOINS A GROWING LIST OF DEMOCRATS VYING FOR THEIR PARTY’S NOMINATION IN THE RACE FOR REPUBLICAN SENATOR JONI ERNST, SEAT. WALZ IS POSITIONING HIMSELF AS A NEW KIND OF DEMOCRAT, ONE HE SAYS WILL RECONNECT WITH VOTERS ACROSS THE AISLE. ����vlog POLITICAL ANALYST DENNIS GOLDFORD SAYS DEMOCRATS NEED TO ENERGIZE THEIR BASE AND DRUM UP SUPPORT IN RURAL IOWA. DEMOCRATS GOT TO TRY TO AVOID LOSING AS BADLY IN THOSE RURAL COUNTIES, WHILE PILING UP SUPPORT IN THE URBAN COUNTIES. RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE ROUGHLY 170,000 MORE REGISTERED REPUBLICANS IN IOWA THAN DEMOCRATS, AND THAT CREATES AN UPHILL BATTLE FOR WALZ AND OTHER DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. WALZ SAYS HIS PATH FORWARD INCLUDES VISITING ALL 99 COUNTIES AND LISTENING TO VOTERS ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ABSOLUTELY HAS FORGOTTEN FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE, AND THAT’S WHAT WE’RE LOOKING TO CHANGE. I LIKE TALKING WITH PEOPLE WHO SEE THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY THAN I DO. I DON’T THINK THAT I HAVE EVERY ANSWER ON MY OWN, AND I DON’T THINK THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS EVERY SOLUTION. NOW, SENATOR JONI ERNST HAS NOT OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED A REELECTION CAMPAIGN, BUT WHEN WE ASKED FOR COMMENT ON WALZ ANNOUNCING HIS CANDIDACY, HER CAMPAIGN MANAGER SAID IN PART, QUOTE, IOWA IS RUBY RED BECAUSE REPUBLICANS LIKE JONI ERNST FIGHT FOR HER POLICIES THAT UNLEASH THE ECONOMY, LOWER TAXES, AND MAKE OUR COMMUNITIES SAFER. END QUOTE. WALZ IS NOW THE THIRD DEMOCRAT TO JOIN THE RACE. HE WILL BE COMPETING AGAINST ARMY AND MARINE CORPS VETERAN NATHAN SAGE AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE JD SCHOLTEN FOR THE PARTY’S NOMINATION. ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, TWO CANDIDATES ARE OFFICIALLY RUNNING FOR THEIR PARTY’S NOMINATION FORMER STATE SENATOR JIM CARLIN AND U.S. NAVY VETERAN JOSHUA SMITH. ERNST HAS HIRED A CAMPAIGN MANAGER, BUT HAS BEEN SAID JUST A MOMENT AGO SHE HAS NOT FORMALLY ANNOUNCED A REELECTION CAMPAIGN. YOU CAN STAY UP TO DATE ON THE STATUS OF THE RACE TO REPRESENT YOU IN THE U.S. SENATE. FIND OUT WHERE THEY STAND ON THE ISSU