Josh Turek

I'm just gonna go up there and I'm gonna be authentically Renee.

You know, making sure there's transparency in state government, that we have affordable health care, we have affordable housing, child care, all the needs that affect how people live day to day.

That's what they're most interested in trying to preserve and to protect.

I fight the good fight.

I'm not afraid to speak truth to power, even if there's others that feel differently.

And that's what I'm going to bring to the district and to the state of Iowa, I hope.

But in Iowa, Mike Zimmer asked voters if they wanted better public schools for his community.

Voters said yes.

So joining us now is the former teacher, coach, principal, school board president, and Iowa State Senator-elect Mike Zimmer.

He will be sworn in on Monday.

Mike, welcome to the show.

Congratulations on your victory.

And thank you for joining us tonight.

Ali, thanks for having me on.

Pretty back to basics campaign.

You were talking to people about what you believed they cared about most and something you had experience in.

Tell me a bit about how this campaign went, considering that it was in the shadow of the sort of one of the most important campaigns we've ever seen in this country.

So when you were arguing, when you were arguing about

Illegals that are receiving Medicaid benefits, 1.4 million, 1.4, they're not, they are not eligible.

So they will be coming off.