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Ashley Hinson says patients should be able to obtain quality, affordable care in Iowa, including rural areas. Her campaign supports lowering prescription-drug costs through greater pharmacy-benefit-manager transparency and accountability, strengthening rural hospitals and the healthcare workforce, expanding maternal and preventive care, and improving veterans’ rural healthcare access.

Josh Turek supports creating a public health insurance option to expand access and reduce costs, particularly for rural Iowans, and opposes Medicaid cuts while calling for stronger federal support for public coverage.

Ashley Hinson supports lowering taxes and reducing inflation and federal spending to promote economic growth, while expanding opportunity for working families and small businesses. Her campaign's economic agenda includes tax-free first-home down-payment savings accounts, tax relief and employer support to make child care more affordable, career and technical education tied to good-paying Iowa jobs, and policies intended to help small businesses grow; she also supports protecting Iowa agriculture through expanded export markets and a Farm Bill.

Josh Turek makes affordability and cost of living central to his 2026 Iowa Senate campaign, citing rising housing, health-care, insurance, and other service costs alongside stagnant wages. He says he would raise the federal minimum wage, impose a federal ban on price gouging for food, reverse Medicaid and SNAP cuts from the 2025 tax-and-spending law, and seek tax relief for working- and middle-class families by requiring billionaires and large corporations to pay more; he has also criticized tariffs for increasing costs and harming Iowa farmers and rural communities.

Ashley Hinson's campaign says she supports expanding homegrown American energy production and energy independence, championing year-round E15 and stronger biofuels, and pursuing permitting reform to speed energy projects and lower costs.

Josh Turek says he would fight climate change and create jobs by investing in clean-energy technologies such as wind and solar. His campaign also emphasizes environmental protection, including clean air and water, incentives for farmers to use practices that protect water and soil, funding for water-quality sensors, and action against companies that pollute water supplies.

Ashley Hinson identifies as pro-life and supports abortion restrictions, including Iowa's six-week "fetal heartbeat" ban (which she said she supported in a 2024 debate) and broader protections for unborn life. At the same time, she supports expanding access to contraception, including over-the-counter birth control, and expanding maternal healthcare.

Josh Turek supports protecting reproductive freedom and has pledged to work in the U.S. Senate to codify Roe v. Wade. He has criticized Iowa’s abortion ban at roughly six weeks, saying it contributes to health-care problems and drives OB/GYNs from the state.

Supports securing the southern border, enforcing U.S. immigration laws, deporting dangerous criminal illegal immigrants, and providing ICE and Border Patrol with substantially increased funding; in June 2026, she supported an approximately $70 billion immigration-enforcement funding package.

Josh Turek supports comprehensive, bipartisan federal immigration reform that secures the border, simplifies an earned pathway to citizenship, deports people who are unlawfully present and commit crimes, and combats fentanyl trafficking.

Ashley Hinson supports broad Second Amendment protections, including concealed-carry reciprocity and reducing federal firearm-related taxes and restrictions. Her record includes support for the Home Defense and Competitive Shooting Act and other gun-owner protections, while her campaign’s current issues page does not list a separate firearms-specific plank.

No newer campaign policy statement was found after August 7, 2026, but Josh Turek's Iowa legislative record provides a sourced indication of his positions: he voted against HF 654 (2023), which expanded where firearms could be kept in locked vehicles, and against 2024 bills authorizing professional weapon permits for school employees; he voted for HF 2421, HF 2464, and HF 2556, which addressed firearm-hold liability, firearm/ammunition merchant-category codes and registries, and damages related to local firearms regulations, respectively.

Ashley Hinson supports a deterrence-focused foreign policy: she has said the Iran conflict should end as soon as possible, while insisting that any agreement be enforceable and permanently prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Josh Turek says he would end unnecessary wars that put American lives at risk and opposes costly foreign entanglements without congressional approval. His campaign platform emphasizes protecting veterans and military families, while his statement on U.S. military action in Iran said bombing Iran is not the same as lasting change and warned against a long conflict absent congressional authorization.

Ashley Hinson's current campaign platform emphasizes parental rights and greater transparency in schools, including opposition to school policies that allow students to change their gender identity without parental involvement.

Josh Turek says he will defend fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech and protest and the right to marry whom one loves; oppose removing gender-identity antidiscrimination protections from Iowa’s civil-rights code; eliminate barriers to education, health care, and employment for people with disabilities; end federal 14C subminimum-wage certificates; and protect Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Ashley Hinson’s current campaign platform emphasizes expanding career and technical education and connecting students with good-paying Iowa jobs. It also calls for giving parents a stronger voice in their children’s education and increasing transparency in schools; the current platform does not state the previously recorded positions on school choice or reducing standardized testing.

Josh Turek supports strengthening public education by ending school vouchers, restoring Department of Education funding, increasing funding for public schools, and protecting funding for Iowa Area Education Agencies (AEAs).

Supports American leadership in artificial intelligence and innovation while favoring targeted safeguards rather than broad restrictions. She has called for stronger protections for children interacting with AI chatbots and other online services, and her Health Insurance Transparency for Patients Act would require insurers to disclose coverage decisions involving automated processes or artificial intelligence, reflecting support for transparency and accountability when AI is used in consequential decisions.

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Supports election-integrity measures requiring proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration and stronger voter-identification requirements. Hinson voted for the SAVE Act and has publicly said she wants it passed, while her campaign continues to frame citizenship verification and voter ID as election-security priorities.

Josh Turek has said he would support banning corporate PAC money in campaigns and passing a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. He has also expressed support for congressional and Supreme Court term limits.

Ashley Hinson's campaign platform emphasizes Iowa-specific and local priorities, including strengthening rural communities and community hospitals, supporting family farms and voluntary conservation, expanding career and technical education, improving child-care access, and protecting local taxpayers from wasteful federal spending.

Josh Turek supports federal right-to-repair legislation so farmers can repair their own equipment or use independent shops, and advocates tariff relief and trade-policy changes to reduce input costs and expand markets for Iowa agriculture.