Nina Baker is a Puffin StudentNation fall writing fellow and a student at Grinnell College, where she is the community editor at The Scarlet & Black. Her work has appeared in PolitiFact, the Daily Yonder, Ballotpedia, and the Kitsap Sun.
With unified messaging and a reluctance to embrace election denialism, Republicans in Iowa were able to outperform the party nationally and secure nearly every statewide office.