The American Prospect: How a Progressive Populist Plans to Win a Rural Republican District

J.D. Scholten is starting up the Winnebago again. Last year, Scholten, a first-time candidate who played minor-league baseball before returning to Iowa’s ruby-red Fourth Congressional District, where he was born and raised, came within 10,430 votes of defeating white nationalist Steve King. Scholten, who traversed the sprawling district in an old RV nicknamed “Sioux City Sue” and … Continue reading The American Prospect: How a Progressive Populist Plans to Win a Rural Republican District