Inside Iowa Politics: These Iowans saw history in person

DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) - They watched protesters march past their hotel. They listened to Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” blare as they announced their support for their party’s new presidential nominee. They found hope that their party could be more competitive in smaller communities and additional states. They saw two former presidents. They may have seen a future president. They witnessed history.

About four dozen Iowa delegates attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago over the past week, where Vice President Kamala Harris became the first Black woman to earn her party’s nomination for president. The Des Moines Register has this background on the Iowa Democratic delegates.

Harris has, at least so far, shown that she could be more competitive against Donald Trump, the Republican former president running for a third time, than President Joe Biden was in national public opinion polls.

Harris is essentially tied with Trump in seven battleground states (results are all within the margin of error in the statewide polls).

There is about 2 1/2 months left until election day with a much different presidential race than the Iowa delegates expected earlier this summer when it looked like 2024 would be a rematch of the Biden vs. Trump matchup in 2020.

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