Josh Turek

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931 appearances 8 recordings 5 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 21 Aug

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The Bulwark Daily · Luke Russert and Josh Turek: There Is a Vast Rightwing Conspiracy · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

Always, and you're right, Council Bluffs, it's one of the two places on earth with the Los Hills.

So every single house has somewhere between 10, 20, 30 stairs.

And sometimes it would take me 10 or 15 minutes to drag my wheelchair up the stairs.

The very first question I would always be asked is, how in the world did you get up?

Depending on how many stairs is there.

By the time I would get up there, they would always say, how in the world did you get up here?

And I would say, I drug my wheelchair up here.

That's how important your vote is.

And then I would find regardless of where they sat on the political spectrum, they would be willing to give me a few minutes of their time, even if they were a hardcore Republican, just to say, my God, this guy just dragged his wheelchair all the way up here.

And I found that in five or 10 minutes of speaking to someone, I could tell them about myself and who I am and why I'm running and what I'm fighting for.

And I would hear over and over and over on the doors, even Republicans that would say, I'm not going to vote for every single Democrat, but I like your kind of Democrat.

And focusing on cost and corruption and kitchen table issues, the issues that apply to 3.2 million Iowans, what I call common sense prairie populism.

And one by one, Iowan by Iowan, whether it was a Democrat, independent or Republican, won them over.

And that's what it's going to take to be able to win in a state like Iowa.

Strangely, actually, I was disappointed because I had worked so incredibly hard and I thought I have absolutely outworked my opponent.

I definitely am going to win this.

So to only win by six votes and then also I knew it was going to go to a recount and you never know how that was going to be.

But I mean, it was an enormous amount of pride.

I will say this, out of everything that I've done, including winning gold medals and representing my country on the field of play, the greatest honor that I've ever had is representing my community in the Iowa legislature, without a doubt.

The case is that Iowans are hurting all across the state, and it's because of bad federal policy.

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