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Oct. 7, 2026, Des Moines Daily Umbrella Podcast
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Good morning, Des Moines, and welcome to the Daily Umbrella Podcast for Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. …
We begin with Iowa politics, where Tuesday night’s first televised debate between Republican Zach Lahn and Democrat Rob Sand was anything but polite. The two candidates traded personal attacks over their records, backgrounds and qualifications with just four weeks remaining in the governor’s race. Lahn, a businessman seeking public office for the first time, repeatedly criticized Sand’s…
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