Tomorrow’s (Tuesday’s) Primary will determine which of three candidates will be the Iowa Democratic Party’s nominee in the third congressional district.  Freshman Republican Congressman David Young is seeking reelection in the third district and the Democrats who’ve lined up to challenge him are Desmund Adams, Mike Sherzan and Jim Mowrer. Mowrer ran against Republican Congressman Steve King in 2014, moved to Des Moines afterwards and is running for congress again, but in the third district.

“We cannot let the party of David Young and Donald Trump carry out their extreme agenda that is completely out of touch with Iowans,” Mowrer says. Sherzan is a retired businessman from West Des Moines who says Young ran as a moderate in 2014, but Young’s voting record in congress has been conservative. “He, time and time again, has done nothing but take orders from the senior officials in the Republican Party,” Sherzan says. “He doesn’t stand out as a leader.”

Adams, the other candidate in the third district race, accuses Young of “flip-flopping” on a ban against discrimination of federal contractors who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. “I think that we need leadership in this district that best represents a broad coalition of individuals,” Adams says. Adams, who is from Clive, was a high-school drop-out who is now a lawyer.

(Radio Iowa)