Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat eyeing a run for president in 2028, said Iowa Democrats' recent special election wins and slate of open-seat races signal a path forward for the party nationally.

“Iowa, all eyes are on you," Emanuel said. "When you think you’ve knocked on your last door, you’ve got 10 more to go.”

Democrats are at a “fork in the road,” the former U.S. ambassador to Japan and adviser to Barack Obama told a crowd of 400 in the front yard of state Rep. Sean Bagniewski's house in Des Moines on Saturday, Sept. 27, calling the party “culpable” in the erosion of the middle class.

“When the American dream became unaffordable and inaccessible is exactly when the American democracy became unstable,” Emanuel said. “… It’s the American dream when every child knows that

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