Hunter
10/05/25
Another Democrat has thrown his hat in the ring, competing for the US Senate seat to be vacated by current Senator Joni Ernst.
The Daily Iowan reports 78-year-old Richard Sherzan of Coralville made the announcement on September 26th but has yet to file his nomination papers.
Sherzan is one of six Democrats running for the U.S. Senate seat left open after U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, announced she would not be running for reelection on Sept. 2.
Sherzan was born in 1946 in Mobile, Alabama, and grew up in Des Moines, where he graduated from Dowling Catholic High School. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a master’s of arts degree in American history and holds a law degree from Drake University.
He also served in the Vietnam War and earned both a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He served one term in the Iowa House in the late 1970s and has run several unsuccessful congressional and senatorial campaigns since 2014.
In a news release, Sherzan said he is running as a “new Democrat” to offer a contrasting political and economic agenda dubbed a “New West” agenda to Republicans’ “America First” agenda.