All posts tagged "Zach Lahn"

Iowa Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn appears to have been caught by his own workout tracker, which showed him biking around Kansas long after he claimed to have made Iowa his permanent home.

Lahn, facing a tough battle against Democratic state auditor Rob Sand, has spent months pushing back on accusations that he's only a part-time Iowa resident since launching his campaign, insisting he moved from Kansas back to his home state in 2023 and has voted there since 2024. But according to The Daily Beast, fitness app Strava told a different story: a user account under his name logged four bike rides in Kansas between March and May 2025, months before he officially entered the governor's race that November.

Each ride traced back to the same starting and ending point: the Lahn family's $2 million property in Kechi, a small city just outside Wichita and hundreds of miles from the governor's residence in Des Moines. It was a short list of activity, just four rides total, the longest barely stretching past 12 miles, and none of them logged anywhere within Iowa's borders. Shortly after reporters identified the account, it vanished from the platform entirely....

Vice President JD Vance tried to rally voters to support a MAGA candidate in a battleground state but attracted only a small crowd.

On Friday, Vance went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, to stump for GOP gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn, but he was met with an underwhelming crowd, leading to ridicule online.

A picture by a Reuters photographer revealed the sparse crowd that took up only a small square in the middle of a gymnasium, with a more bunched group standing behind Vance for the background of photos. Journalist Aaron Rupar mockingly described the photo as "JD Vance speaks to dozens of people today in Iowa."...

As Republican Zach Lahn launched his campaign for Iowa governor, the private school he founded in Kansas quietly scrubbed the names of controversial right-wing figures from its website.

The effort to paint over the influence of Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson, two men widely credited with mainstreaming white supremacist and anti-feminist ideas, took place as Lahn launched a campaign that has centered repeated attacks on what he calls a “sinister” agenda by the left to shape public education, while he vows to revoke the licenses of teachers seen as indoctrinating students.

“And education is one that they have targeted so deeply because they know that if they can get their hands on your children — on our children — that they can work to change their beliefs to alter society in the future,” Lahn said during a candidate forum hosted by the conservative group Moms for Liberty in January. ...

A MAGA candidate running with President Donald Trump's endorsement has been living a life of luxury outside the state where he's running, per The Daily Beast.

The Republican nominee for governor in Iowa, Zach Lahn, has been living in a multimillion-dollar mansion in Kansas despite presenting himself to voters as a farmer, according to reporting by The Daily Beast. Lahn is running on a platform aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement and also has the endorsement of Turning Point Action, the conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk.

An investigation by The Daily Beast found that his Kansas mansion is worth about $2 million. His wife, Annie Lahn, is the ex-daughter-in-law of billionaire Republican donor Charles Koch. Lahn and his wife bought the property in 2024 and transferred it to an LLC, according to The Daily Beast, which noted that the move is likely meant to hide Lahn's ownership....