Democrats see openings in deep-red Iowa, a state hard-hit by Trump’s tariffs

In the deep freeze of an Iowa winter, the Regal Beagle bar is hopping, the Busch Light is flowing, the tavern owner is pumping out garlic cheese bread, the University of Iowa basketball game against Wisconsin is on two huge television screens, and the talk is about how the Democrats can triumph in November’s midterm congressional elections. Agrarian Iowa is devout Trump country. The one-time New York tycoon has swept this state with its generations-long rural culture three times. The state’s two senators and all four members of the House of Representatives are Republicans, and the GOP controls the governor’s…