Independent congressional candidate Dave Bushaw asked for Iowans’ support Saturday at the Iowa State Fair as he works to build an “independent movement” past the 2026 election season throughout the state.
Bushaw is running as an independent candidate in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, but has a history in Democratic politics, having worked as an organizer for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign during the 2020 Democratic presidential nominating cycle. But during his speech at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox, he criticized both the Democratic and Republican parties as “two wings of the same bird that feed corporate greed,” which
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