Can Deidre DeJear’s team, maybe even the Obamas, re-awaken the soul of Iowa?
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, July 18, 2022 — When Deidre DeJear accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor of Iowa at the state convention last month, she reminded the crowd that she came to this state 18 years ago “on a hope and a prayer.” She’d been “a little girl from Mississippi,” African American,…