Josh Turek

His campaign website says he would raise the minimum wage and tie future raises to inflation.³

His campaign website says he would pass the PRO Act to strengthen unions and protect collective bargaining.³

1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
2. Keep current rules
3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized

His campaign website says he would end the tariffs it says are pushing farms toward a crisis like the one in the 1980s.³

His campaign website says he would ban Wall Street private equity firms from buying single-family homes and farmland, and that in the Iowa House he sponsored legislation to limit private equity's ability to buy up Iowa homes.³

His campaign website says that in the Iowa House he sponsored legislation to cut taxes for first-time homebuyers.³

His campaign website says he would repeal cuts to SNAP.³

1. Undo the 2025 changes or expand benefits and eligibility
2. Keep the program as changed in 2025
3. Tighten eligibility and work rules further

His campaign website says he would lower child care costs.³

His campaign website says every Iowan should have access to paid family and medical leave.³

His campaign website says he would defend Americans' right to marry who they love.³

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

His campaign website says he would restore full Medicaid funding for the 110,000 Iowans it says could lose coverage because of cuts in the law known as the Big Beautiful Bill.³

1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding

His campaign website says he would protect and expand the Affordable Care Act for the 118,000 Iowans it says rely on its subsidies.³

His campaign website says he would introduce a public option so every Iowan has access to health care.³

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

His campaign website says he would defend and expand Medicare's power to negotiate lower drug prices.³

1. Repeal or scale back negotiation
2. Keep the program as it is
3. Expand it to more drugs and to people with private insurance

His campaign website says he would make Roe v. Wade the law of the land again.³

1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
2. Leave abortion law to each state
3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)

His campaign website says he would make Roe v. Wade the law of the land again, and that he wrote and sponsored legislation to repeal Iowa's abortion ban.³

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

His campaign website says he would protect access to contraception and IVF.³

His campaign website says members of Congress and their spouses should be banned from trading stocks.³

1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports

His campaign website says he supports a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United, a ban on corporate PAC money in campaigns and the DISCLOSE Act, and that in the Iowa House he sponsored legislation to cap how much can be given to individual campaigns and political committees.³

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

His campaign website says he supports term limits for members of Congress.³

His campaign website says he supports term limits for Supreme Court justices.³

1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
2. Keep lifetime appointments

His campaign website says ethics standards should be enforced on Supreme Court justices.³

His campaign website says members of Congress should have their pay suspended and travel banned during a government shutdown.³

His campaign website says he supports bipartisan immigration legislation that strengthens the border and simplifies an earned path to citizenship.³

1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks

His campaign website says people who come here illegally and commit crimes should be deported, and that ICE agents should face regulation and accountability.³

His campaign website says he would end school vouchers, and that in the Iowa House he sponsored legislation to repeal them.^2,3

1. Make them available to every family
2. Offer them only to some students, such as those from low-income families or with disabilities
3. No public money for private school or homeschooling costs

His campaign website says he would restore Department of Education funding.³

1. Close the department and move or end its programs
2. Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
3. Keep the department and its programs, or expand it

His campaign website says he would reverse cuts to VA staffing and health care.³

1. Hire more VA staff, including to replace jobs lost in 2025
2. Keep staffing near current levels
3. Cut VA staff further, especially in administrative jobs

His campaign website says he is the lead Democratic sponsor of a bipartisan Iowa bill that would bar sending Iowa National Guard members into another state without that state governor's permission.³

1. Let the president send troops into cities, even over a governor's objection
2. Send troops only when a state's governor asks for them or agrees
3. Don't use troops for local policing, and limit the president's power to send them

His campaign website says that in the Iowa House he sponsored bills to raise the minimum wage.³

His campaign website says he is the lead Democratic sponsor of a bipartisan Iowa bill that would bar sending Iowa National Guard members into active combat unless Congress has declared war.³

His campaign's fuel-price plan calls for temporarily suspending the federal gas tax, along with tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and pausing all diesel exports.⁵

1. Raise the federal gas tax
2. Add new fees, such as a yearly fee on electric vehicles or a charge for each mile driven
3. Keep the gas tax as is and cover the gap with other federal money
4. Cut or suspend the federal gas tax