Josh Turek holds 4-point lead over Ashley Hinson in Iowa Senate race
The poll gives Turek a four-point lead over Ashley Hinson in Iowa’s Senate race.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYFox News is an established national outlet with identifiable authorship and editorial standards. This article also discloses the poll’s collaborators, sample, field dates and margin of error.
- Transparency — Provides polling partners, field dates, sample size, interview methods and sampling error.
- Source type — Established national news organization; a strong institutional track record, with a recognizable editorial perspective.
- Author attribution — The article identifies its author.
- Editorial standards — Presents itself as reported news and attributes interpretation to a named pollster.
The article supplies substantial polling results and useful methodological details, and reports findings for both candidates. Its interpretation relies partly on a pollster’s assessment and does not include responses from the campaigns or broader context for the poll’s issue findings.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article presents polling data about both candidates and includes survey methodology. It relies on the poll and a pollster’s interpretation, without campaign responses or extensive independent context.
- Counterarguments presented — Reports findings favorable and unfavorable to each candidate, but does not include campaign responses.
- Source diversity — The poll is jointly conducted by named Republican and Democratic research firms; the article’s interpretation quote is from the Republican pollster.
- Omitted context — Gives methodology and prior polling context, but limited independent context for interpreting the results.
The article mainly reports polling results in neutral, attributed language, with comparable favorability and issue findings for both Senate candidates. No clear partisan framing is evident.
- Language tone — Mostly descriptive reporting of survey results without conspicuously loaded language.
- Source selection — Names the poll’s Republican and Democratic research partners and attributes the main interpretation to the Republican pollster.
- Framing — Centers on the Senate matchup and reports strengths and vulnerabilities for both candidates.
A Fox News poll puts Democrat Josh Turek at 50% and Republican Ashley Hinson at 46% in Iowa’s 2026 Senate race, a lead within the poll’s margin of error. The survey also finds inflation is voters’ top issue and that voters are divided over Hinson’s ties to President Donald Trump.
The Fox News survey gives Turek a four-point advantage over Hinson, within the margin of error. Among voters who say they are extremely motivated to vote, Turek’s lead is 15 points. Turek has a net favorability rating of +18, while Hinson’s is -7; voters are divided over whether Hinson is too close to Trump.
Community verdict
VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Turek in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Turek’s record.
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SWIPE →Republican Senate candidate in Iowa and U.S. representative
Hinson's version of this story ↗President of the United States; Hinson’s endorser
Retiring Republican senator from Iowa
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