{"id":230,"date":"2026-05-23T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:06:27","slug":"the-populist-paralympian-who-wants-to-roll-into-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"The Populist Paralympian Who Wants to Roll Into the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div><ul><li><span>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Share on Twitter<\/span><\/li><li><i><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><\/i><span>Share on Bluesky<\/span><\/li><li><span>Email<\/span><\/li><li><span>Comments<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>It was the final quarter <\/span>of a US men\u2019s national wheelchair basketball game at the Tokyo Paralympics against Turkey in 2021. Josh Turek was benched for most of the game. Fouled soon after coming in, Turek sank both his free throws to widen the US\u2019 two-point lead in a game it went on to win. Turek, who played in all eight US men\u2019s games at that year\u2019s Paralympics\u2014the team went on to win gold\u2014had no complaints about sitting out most of the game. Ryan Neiswender, Turek\u2019s teammate on that squad, called him a consummate team player.\u00a0<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=228\">Exclusive: Departing Meta Staffer Posts Biting Anti-AI Video Internally Amid Mass Layoffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing wheelchair basketball on a national team requires people to be self-sufficient, prepping on their own for most of the year. If an athlete doesn\u2019t put in that work, it shows. \u201cNobody wins a medal by themselves,\u201d Neiswender told me. \u201cYou have to have someone that you can rely on, that you can trust, that you can take at their word\u2026Josh never showed up unprepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now a second-term representative in Iowa\u2019s state legislature, representing Pottawattamie County\u2014which has voted red in every Presidential election since 1968\u2014Turek is vying for the seat that Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst will vacate at the end of her term. Ernst herself flipped what was then a blue seat from former Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, who represented Iowa in the Senate from 1985 to 2015; she announced in September that she wouldn\u2019t run for re-election after immense backlash to her comments on President Trump\u2019s then-proposed Medicaid cuts at a May 2025 town hall: Ernst notoriously responded to an audience member\u2019s remark that \u201cpeople will die\u201d with \u201cWe all are going to die.\u201d Her popularity among moderates never recovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turek was born with spina bifida, linked to his father\u2019s exposure to Agent Orange during his service in Vietnam, a condition that compelled him to have 21 surgeries by the age of 12. His family grew up poor; the Tureks shared clothes from Goodwill, and Josh qualified for free lunch programs, attending college thanks to the financial support of his state\u2019s vocational rehabilitation program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I certainly didn\u2019t win the genetic lottery. Didn\u2019t win it economically,\u201d Turek told me, \u201cbut I worked incredibly hard to get a bachelor\u2019s degree [in history], to get a master\u2019s degree [in business], to be able to represent my country on the field of play, to win gold medals.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>From 2002 to 2016, Turek played professional basketball abroad in Italy, France and Spain before transitioning into disability-focused work, including as an account manager for mobility equipment supplier Numotion. His entry into politics was a narrow win in 2022 against another newcomer, Sarah Abdouch, for an open seat in the Iowa House, which he won by less than 1 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August, early in his second term, Turek drew national attention for the first time with an advertisement announcing his run for Ernst\u2019s seat in which he pushed his manual wheelchair through the streets of Iowa, declaring his status as an underdog and calling out Ernst\u2019s town hall comments devaluing the lives of Medicaid recipients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kCD3vVVAa7U\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>At the time, Turek faced a crowded field. The candidates vying to replace Ernst included JD Scholten, a state legislator with several years\u2019 more political experience, who drew national recognition in 2019 for nearly unseating GOP Rep. Steve King\u2014after King said, in a <em>New York Times<\/em> interview, \u201cWhite nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization\u2014how did that language become offensive?\u201d\u2014and Nathan Sage, a veteran and former head of a municipal chamber of commerce. Sage, supported by Clinton administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, dropped out and endorsed Turek in February.<\/p>\n<p>Scholten, like Turek, represents a traditionally conservative area; a fellow athlete and good friend of Turek\u2019s, he dropped out after Turek entered the race. The consolidation of the field has fueled speculation that Turek is national Democrats\u2019 candidate of choice\u2014Turek\u2019s final remaining opponent,\u00a0 former Iowa state Sen. Zach Wahls, has claimed that Turek has Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s behind-the-scenes endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>In a purple state like Iowa, where up-front association with Schumer and national Democrats might be seen as a poison pill, both the candidate and the party have been cagey. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee didn\u2019t respond to questions on whether it had a role in Turek\u2019s opponents dropping out. Scholten has simply said that \u201cgetting out, getting behind [Turek], helping him, was the right thing to do\u2026There\u2019s not a better Democrat in Iowa or probably in the country who can talk about the impact of Medicaid on their life than Josh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wahls, popular among his peers, was himself elected the Iowa state Senate\u2019s minority leader in 2020: he speaks proudly about his two moms, has Turek beat on endorsements from organized labor, and has accused Turek of being poised to follow the Democratic status quo\u2014Wahls has said he would oppose Schumer as Democrats\u2019 leader in the Senate during the first debate and challenged Turek, who declined to make any commitment on that front, to do the same. It was a contentious episode in a debate where the candidates otherwise seemed to be mostly on the same page.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whoever wins the primary will likely run against House Rep. Ashley Hinson, who has represented Iowa in Congress since 2021 and voted for Trump\u2019s brutal cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Trump endorsed Hinson, a former news anchor, in August, making her victory against former GOP state Sen. Jim Carlin all but guaranteed. In the first quarter of 2026, Hinson raised $2.36 million, around the same amount as Turek and Wahls combined (Turek also recently received millions of dollars in support from VoteVets, a Democratic Party\u2013aligned political action group pushing for the needs of veterans). Recent polls have placed Turek significantly above Wahls, and both are neck-and-neck with Hinson in prospective general election matchups.<\/p>\n<p><span>The Iowa Democratic Party is not<\/span> an especially well-oiled machine. Iowa has become more consistently Republican over the past decade, both in national elections and races for statewide office. Iowa Democrats have been largely ineffective at stemming the tide. But lessons from recent elections in the state could offer a path forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After Harkin, a popular Democratic senator and one of the original sponsors of the Americans with Disabilities Act, retired, his successor, Rep. Bruce Bailey, didn\u2019t even face a primary. Drake University political scientist Rachel Paine Caufield believes that contributed to his defeat by Ernst in 2014 by almost eight percent: Ernst ran \u201cas somebody who would really challenge orthodoxies in Washington,\u201d a promise Caufield says Ernst hasn\u2019t lived up to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Caufield believes that a competitive Democratic primary this year may work in Democrats\u2019 favor, especially if Hinson\u2019s status as a sitting national politician\u2014a DC insider\u2014doesn\u2019t help in a populist swing state like Iowa. A vote for a Democrat from an independent or Republican voter in the general election, after all, would most likely be a rebuke of Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Turek first announced he was running this past August, he positioned himself as a common-sense moderate and a populist who could appeal to voters in his state. He may be right: research suggests that a bigger dose of economic populism could help Democrats in the Rust Belt. A  found that candidates portraying themselves more as populists than as Democrats were more likely to win over voters in the surveyed states of Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Courting those swing voters, Turek hasn\u2019t offered the kind of rhetoric around Trump that many Democrats are now demanding. Turek\u2019s own father, the candidate acknowledges, voted for Trump three times. Trump \u201caccurately diagnosed that the status quo was not working and is not working for working families and for the middle class,\u201d Turek said to me last fall. \u201cWe need to once again be the party of the American worker\u2026fighting for health care, fighting for social and economic justice, fighting for the most vulnerable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=225\">Don\u2019t Want a Data Center in Your Town? You Might Be a Chinese Spy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turek has criticized\u00a0Trump for federal trade policies that hurt local farmers, as has Wahls: Trump\u2019s tariffs, they point out, palpably hurt farmers and other Iowans, as do the GOP\u2019s Medicaid cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy. And Turek says that he strongly opposes ICE\u2019s current escalation of occupations and deportations\u2014though, as Wahls pointed out in a debate, Turek was one of three Iowa Democrats to vote for a 2024 anti-immigration bill that aimed to make undocumented immigration a crime, rather than a civil infraction. On other issues, especially health care, Turek and Wahls don\u2019t vary as greatly; in some respects, both face a question familiar to female candidates and politicians of color: are they likeable enough to win?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turek told me that he\u2019d like to expand Medicaid funding, even after repealing the Medicaid cuts associated with the One Big Beautiful Bill.  Thousands of  \u201cdisabled Iowans are on [the] Medicaid waitlist right now,\u201d he said, pointing out that those waits could run up to seven years. \u201cThat\u2019s fundamentally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disability issues, a focus of Turek\u2019s, have historically been fairly bipartisan, and Turek has a record of collaboration with disabled people across the state to work on various bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can talk to people and relate to them because he\u2019s been there,\u201d said Alex Watters, a former city councilor in Sioux City, Iowa, and a friend of Turek\u2019s.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s [gone] through a lot of these hardships himself,\u201d said Watters, who has a spinal cord injury.<\/p>\n<p>Jenn Wolff, a disabled city councilor in Waverly, Iowa, worked with Turek on a 2023 bill to get chemicals out of catheters in 2023. \u201cIt didn\u2019t pass,\u201d Wolff said, \u201cbut made it through that first committee\u2014not many Democrats get that far.\u201d She called Turek \u201cone of those legislators who is truly trying to create change by working across lines, which we\u2019ve kind of lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But since the beginning of his first term, in January 2023, none of the more than 80 bills Turek introduced have become law. (Wahls has a similar record, with just one bill he sponsored passing.) Only a handful, not counting nonbinding resolutions, even made it to approval votes in the relevant committees or subcommittees. Republicans control both chambers of Iowa\u2019s state legislature, and the fact that Turek\u2019s bills related to disability, in particular, were not even voted on in committee speaks to Republicans\u2019 lack of enthusiasm for those issues. But it also raises the specter of Turek winning only to be similarly locked out of another GOP-dominated legislature\u2014just on a larger scale. Will Turek be able to push legislation through the Senate if it remains red despite a Democratic win in Iowa? It\u2019s the kind of bipartisan thinking national Democrats love, but the evidence doesn\u2019t seem to support it.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Turek has won the backing of longtime members of Congress with high hopes for him\u2014like former Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, a Senate heavyweight known for advancing disability legislation during his 18 years in office, who called Turek the best candidate to fight Medicaid rollbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Former Rep. Tony Coelho, a longtime House representative from California and the primary author of the ADA, has also endorsed Turek. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of people all over the country who are asking for support, and I\u2019ve eliminated most of them,\u201d Coelho told me. \u201cBut I\u2019m particularly interested in Josh.\u201d Coelho called Turek a candidate who could bring \u201ca disability voice\u201d to the Senate \u2014an heir to Casey in pushing disability legislation, and a fellow Democrat from an agricultural area who could bolster the party\u2019s standing among farmers. Earlier in May, Turek received the endorsement of Harkin himself\u2014perhaps a difficult commitment for the former senator, who officiated the wedding of Turek\u2019s rival, Wahls, in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A May 21 poll from Public Policy Polling gives Turek a \u201ccommanding lead\u201d of more than 20 points in the primary\u2014but doesn\u2019t say anything about his, or a generic Democrat\u2019s, odds in the general. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis race is not going to be an easy race by any means,\u201d Scholten told me, \u201cand it\u2019s going to take a special candidate, and a special campaign, to pull it off for a Democrat to win here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<section><h3>Keep us relentless, independent, and free to read.<\/h3><p>For 50 years, <em>Mother Jones<\/em> has offered <strong>honest<\/strong>, <strong>investigative reporting<\/strong> you can rely on:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 <strong>Relentless in the pursuit of truth<\/strong>, unafraid to hold the powerful to account<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 <strong>Independent from influence or agenda<\/strong> from oligarchs and corporations<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 <strong>Freely accessible to every reader<\/strong>, never behind a paywall<\/p>\n<p><strong>But we can\u2019t do any of this without you<\/strong>. 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