Politics

The millennial-on-millennial governor’s race is close—and prescient.

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There will be a time soon when Donald Trump is a historic figure and the 20 th century is an increasingly hazy memory. If you want to know what that next era of politics will look like, you don’t have to wait. You can go to Iowa, where the gubernatorial election is a window into the future of politics for decades to come.

The millennial-on-millennial contest between Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lahn is one of the country’s most competitive, despite taking place in what was once a prototypical swing state but has shifted hard toward the GOP in the past decade.…