Candidates for Iowa governor talk education, economics at contentious first debate

Uh, last night...

Let's start with this.

Last night in Davenport, Iowa's candidates for governor shared a debate stage for the first time.

Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lane went for an hour at St. Ambrose University, hosted by KWQC.

Much of it got personal.

Uh, you noticed that if you tuned in.

Sand pressed Lane on his Iowa residency.

Lane went after the wealth of Sand's wife's family.

And on the new steel mill, Sand backed it with conditions.

Lane called it transformational.

Uh, and just to throw in here before we bit of a, hear a bit of audio from the debate, recent polling has Sand ahead by eight or nine points.

Three more debates coming.

Um, early voting, as I mentioned, starts one week, uh, from today.

Here we are.

Let's get to this, uh, little crip- clip, and, and this says a lot about the entire [laughs] debate.

Uh, Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lane trading barbs about their residency and family wealth, and KWQC's William Ingalls, one of the moderators.

Let's listen.

Mr.

Sand, your chance to respond here-

Yeah, Zach, I mean, look-

... and then we're going to go into the question that we're gonna go into

... you, you literally voted in Kansas in 2018 and in '20 and in '22.

You registered to vote in Iowa less than two years ago.

It'll be coming up next month.

And here's the thing-

Uh, last night...

Let's start with this.

Last night in Davenport, Iowa's candidates for governor shared a debate stage for the first time.

Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lane went for an hour at St. Ambrose University, hosted by KWQC.

Much of it got personal.

Uh, you noticed that if you tuned in.

Sand pressed Lane on his Iowa residency.

Lane went after the wealth of Sand's wife's family.

And on the new steel mill, Sand backed it with conditions.

Lane called it transformational.

Uh, and just to throw in here before we bit of a, hear a bit of audio from the debate, recent polling has Sand ahead by eight or nine points.

Three more debates coming.

Um, early voting, as I mentioned, starts one week, uh, from today.

Here we are.

Let's get to this, uh, little crip- clip, and, and this says a lot about the entire [laughs] debate.

Uh, Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lane trading barbs about their residency and family wealth, and KWQC's William Ingalls, one of the moderators.

Let's listen.

Mr.

Sand, your chance to respond here-

Yeah, Zach, I mean, look-

... and then we're going to go into the question that we're gonna go into

... you, you literally voted in Kansas in 2018 and in '20 and in '22.

You registered to vote in Iowa less than two years ago.

It'll be coming up next month.

And here's the thing-