On Monday night, Iowa Democrat J.D. Scholten joined state Rep. Josh Turek in support of his Senate bid. Earlier in the day, Scholten announced he would be dropping out of the race. Sign up for our ...

U.S. Senate candidate Zach Wahls, a state legislator from Coralville, is connecting with union workers and reaffirming his ...

More than 2,000 fairgoers participated in the nonscientific straw poll conducted by the Iowa Secretary of State's office ...

U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Scholten announced Monday that he is suspending his campaign to challenge Senator Joni Ernst in ...

Zach Wahls went viral in 2011 when he delivered an impassioned speech defending his lesbian moms. Soon he'll be delivering a lot more speeches — this time, as an Iowa state senator.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Scholten is dropping out of Iowa's 2026 Senate race and endorsing state Rep. Josh Turek.

Iowa Politics Iowa State Sen. Zach Wahls officially announces run for US Senate "Zach is running to bring a new generation of leadership to the U.S. Senate," Wahls' campaign website states.

At age 19, Zach Wahls first found his way into America’s conscience in 2011 when a video of his passionate speech to Iowa lawmakers about his lesbian parents went viral.

In 2011, Zach Wahls, then a 19-year-old University of Iowa student, addressed the Iowa House of Representatives during a public debate on same-sex marriage. His passionate 3-minute speech —where ...

University of Iowa student Zach Wahls inadvertently became a public figure yesterday after a passionate speech in defense of same-sex marriage, where he used himself and his two mothers as an ...

Zach Wahls was 19 when he went viral on Youtube in 2011. In his three-minute video, which garnered more than 3 million views since it was first posted, Wahls stood in front of the Iowa House of ...

In 2011, Zach Wahls gave a speech defending his family that went viral. Chloe Angyal jokingly asked him to marry her. The rest is, well, history.