Josh Turek Defends Missing 261 Iowa House Votes as Ashley Hinson Presses 42% Attendance
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 14
Josh Turek Defends Missing 261 Iowa House Votes as Ashley Hinson Presses 42% Attendance
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 14
Summary
261 missed votes in the 2026 Iowa legislative session became a central flashpoint in Tuesday’s Senate debate, with Josh Turek saying he was campaigning across all 99 counties and had held hundreds of public forums.
42% attendance was the figure Ashley Hinson used to attack him, arguing Iowans would not reward someone who showed up only two out of five workdays and contrasting that with her own 99% attendance claim.
193 missed votes was Turek’s counter, but Hinson’s campaign said that total covered her entire congressional tenure, while Turek’s 261 absences came in a single session.
47 in-person town halls and more than 30 telephone town halls were cited by Hinson’s campaign to rebut Turek’s claim she had not held a single in-person town hall, underscoring how attendance and voter contact have become key lines of attack in Iowa’s open Senate race.