{"id":23556,"date":"2026-06-03T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lahn-sandpoised-for-head-to-head-matchup-for-iowa-governor\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:22:13","slug":"lahn-sandpoised-for-head-to-head-matchup-for-iowa-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lahn-sandpoised-for-head-to-head-matchup-for-iowa-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lahn, Sandpoised for head-to-head matchup for Iowa governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman&nbsp;Zach Lahn and State Auditor Rob Sand are projected to face off in November for Iowa governor, according to Decision Desk HQ.&nbsp; Lahn, who was endorsed by Turning Point Action, defeated four other challengers in his GOP primary, including Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa). Feenstra had enjoyed endorsements from President Trump and retiring Sen&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5906068-zach-lahn-rob-sand-iowa-governor\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman&nbsp;Zach Lahn and State Auditor Rob Sand are projected to face off in November for Iowa governor, according to Decision Desk HQ.&nbsp; Lahn, who was endorsed by Turning Point Action, defeated four other challengers in his GOP primary, including Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa). Feenstra had enjoyed endorsements from President Trump and retiring Sen&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}