Democrat Renee Hardman wins Iowa state Senate seat, blocking GOP from reclaiming a supermajority

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Source: AP

Updated 1:31 AM EST, December 31, 2025


DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Renee Hardman was elected to the Iowa state Senate on Tuesday in a year-end special election, denying Republicans from reclaiming two-thirds control of the chamber. Hardman bested Republican Lucas Loftin by an overwhelming margin to win a seat representing parts of the Des Moines suburbs. The seat became vacant after the Oct. 6 death of state Sen. Claire Celsi, a Democrat.

Hardman, the CEO of nonprofit Lutheran Services of Iowa and a member of the West Des Moines City Council, becomes the first Black woman elected to the 50-member Senate. “I want to recognize that while my name was the one on the ballot, this race was never just about me,” Hardman told a room of supporters in West Des Moines after declaring victory.

With 99% of votes counted, Hardman led by about 43 percentage points.

Her win is the latest in a string of special election victories for Iowa Democrats, who flipped two Senate seats this year to break up a supermajority that had allowed Republicans to easily confirm GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds’ appointments to state agencies and commissions.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/iowa-special-election-state-senate-supermajority-32ecda723de7a58d0da7d1d701dbc980

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With 99% of votes counted, Hardman led by about 43 percentage points.

Definition of a blowout.

[Lovie777]

1. K & R...................

[QueerDuck]

2. A win by 43% is a BLOWOUT!!! That's amazing!

[wolfie001]

5. Seems like she got the "super majority"

Chef's kiss!
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[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[mdbl]

4. Keep up the momentum Iowa.

You're not out of the fascist woods yet.

[liberalla]

6. Fantastic! Woo hoo!!!

[Hotler]

7. It's a mandate.

[riversedge]

8. CONGRATS TO Democrat Renee Hardman

[Grins]

9. "...led by about 43 percentage points!!!"

Not that's a beating!

Her opponent is a shit. A "Christian" one at that. Believer in home-schooling who sits on boards of Faith based organizations. Another Republican who runs on "Traditional Family Values®"

And who did his "Traditional Family Values®" compel him to vote for?

A Florid Caligula™; an arrogant bag of offal who never set foot in a church. A man whose fallacies, are textbook pathological. A man for whom revenge and cruelty is his raison d'etre. A man who cheated on his taxes, cheated on everyone of his wives, had lustful thoughts about his daughter, a sexual predator convicted of rape, and who now endlessly works to conceal the evidence that he forcibly put his dick into 13-year old GIRLS.

Eff this guy.