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Fifth Democrat running in Iowa’s 2nd congressional district

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October 17th, 2025 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A Democrat from Boone in central Iowa has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for Iowa’s open U.S. House seat in northeast Iowa. Guy Morgan says while he doesn’t live in the second district, he has family ties in the area and graduated from the University of Northern Iowa. The U-S Constitution does not require U.S. House candidates to live in the district they’d representing, but they must be a resident of the state they’d represent. Morgan says he’s running an environmentally focused campaign.

In 2023, 3-M agreed to pay over 10-BILLION dollars to settle lawsuits filed by public drinking water systems contaminated with so-called “forever chemicals” used in products like the foams used to fight fires. Morgan is the fifth Democrat to announce they’d seek the seat currently held by Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who is running for the U.S. Senate in 2026.