Posted on 08/27/2025 5:38:46 AM PDT by DFG
Democrat Catelin Drey has flipped an open Iowa state Senate seat, adding to the party’s successes in special elections this year, Decision Desk HQ projected.
Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch in the race to replace the late state Sen. Rocky De Witt (R), who died in office in June from cancer. Democrats homed in on the Republican-leaning district as a pickup opportunity given their overperformance in many smaller elections through 2025.
Drey’s victory breaks a GOP supermajority in the state Senate, giving her party more power despite its minority status in the body. In particular, the extra Democratic vote, which will bring the margin in the chamber to 33 Republicans to 17 Democrats, will ensure that nominees from the governor can’t get approved on a party-line vote.
A two-thirds majority is needed for nominees to be confirmed.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) seized on the opportunity ahead of the election, sending in 30,000 volunteers for “get out the vote” efforts and hosting text- and phone-banks with the Iowa Democratic Party.
DNC Chair Ken Martin had said the party hasn’t recognized the importance of down-ballot elections for too long and rebuilding the party “starts from the ground up.”
The DNC celebrated Drey’s win on Tuesday night, noting that the district voted for President Trump in 2024 by more than 11 points. Martin said in a statement that Iowans are seeing Republicans as a “rubber stamp” for Trump’s agenda and want change.
“They are putting Republicans on notice and making it crystal clear: any Republican pushing Trump’s unpopular, extreme agenda has no place governing on behalf of Iowa families,” he said. “That’s why all year long, Iowans have been electing Democrats ready to fight for working Iowans. Make no mistake: when Democrats organize everywhere, we win everywhere, and today is no exception.”
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I hope this is not a trend towards destroying Trump agenda!
7600+ votes cast, with about an 800 vote margin of victory, at least at the moment...
Wouldn’t be hard to steal.
We’ll never know without an audit.
Iowa going after the far-left skanks now. Great.
I think dancing on the grave of the Democrat party is premature. The communists have done the work, and the indoctrination is deep and wide spread. I live in the blue part of Ohio and see no shift in Democrat attitudes.
It’s a local off-year election.
Less than 8,000 votes cast.
Not a bellwether of anything.
I’ll bet most of the people voting for the Dem were likely public sector employees who are loyal to the Deep State.
Drey defeated Republican
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Sounds like drey has DOMINION over the voters.
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The Republicans still hold the Senate majority 33-17. They just lost the super majority which they only had since 2022.
I don’t think that calls for panic.
“Trump’s unpopular, extreme agenda”
Yes, stopping invasions, deporting the invaders, cracking down on murderers, rapists, etc., how more extreme can one get. The voters demand to be invaded, raped, and murdered to prove to the world they are not racists and extremists.
Special election after De Witt died in Last June. He had Pancreatic cancer but from what I can tell he didn’t know it 2 years ago when he ran.
Pancreatic cancer is a terrible sometmies fast acting illness btw.
I think you’re spot on ... but it is an indication that, very much like the “progressive” disease of cancer, “progressive-ism” is clearly metastacizing into an otherwise healthy state; thus, threatening the survival of Iowans’ Liberty unless it is destroyed in its tracks, just as what must happen with the “progressive” disease of cancer.
Republican voters generally can’t be bothered with off-year and off-cycle elections. Which is why 2026 should be a concern, much like 2018 ended up being. Angry and miserable DEMs voters go to the polls. Not so much with GOP voters.
DOJ and Iowa state should immediately begin an election fraud investigation.
Just to be sure…
It's a bellwether of what happens when "patriots" don't get off their fat asses and vote.
This district is mostly north Sioux City. It’s been less GOP than the rest of western Iowa, but had been trending more GOP. Likely recent surge of Hispanics were recruited by Dems and are tilting it.
Iowa has received a large number of third worlders over the years. I would love to see the demographic breakdown of the vote.
If republicans don’t turn out to vote, they DESERVE the corrupt dems they get. F them.
Does Iowa have a Rat Governor? If they don’t I don’t see why a super majority would be important.
Audit is impossible with secret paper ballots without ID. Electronic voting can be fudged easier than making a hard boiled egg.
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