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Johnson County’s Potluck Insurgency stirs up recipe for Iowa Democratic success

They celebrated Joe Biden’s presidential victory, but other results of the November 2020 election left a group of grassroots Johnson County Democratic activists disappointed and looking for answers to their party’s other losses.Members of the Potluck Insurgency, which organized four years ago after presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat, were frustrated by then-President Donald Trump’s eight-point reelection win in the state as well as the loss of two congressional seats and six seats in the Iowa House to the GOP.As they watched the results, Roseanne Cook and Janice Weiner were texting ‘OMG, things didn’t come out very well in Iowa,’” Cook recalled.

 

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