GOP should be 'quite nervous' after political bombshell this week: analyst

Another political jaw-dropper in a red state should leave Republicans "quite nervous" for 2025, according to a new analysis.

In the final special election of 2025, Iowa voters delivered a bombshell, noted Steve Benen producer of “The Rachel Maddow Show” and editor of MaddowBlog on Friday. Republicans desperately wanted a Des Moines-area state Senate seat to secure their supermajority in the chamber. Instead, they got crushed.

In the most recent race, Democrat Renee Hardman, a West Des Moines City Council member...