News Summary

• Some Republican midterm candidates have been running commercials that acknowledge reality – implicitly rejecting the narrative of their party’s chief spokesman on inflation.
• “On our farm here in Belle Plaine, we see it every day: gas, groceries, everything's expensive.
• Iowa families are hurting,” Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for governor of Iowa, says in one recent ad.
• Republicans flooded the airwaves with inflation-related ads during the 2022 midterms under then-President Joe Biden.