Trump's endorsement in Iowa loses and Bill Pulte is now Acting DNI?

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🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Iowa delivered the biggest surprise of the 2026 primary cycle as a Trump-backed candidate, Randy Feenstra, lost for the first time, while Chuck Schumer's Senate pick, Josh Turek, won comfortably. Playbook’s Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns dive into all the results from Iowa and New Jersey, and try to make sense of Bill Pulte's sudden move from housing chief to acting Director of National Intelligence.

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0:34.6	Today on the Playbook podcast, a tale of two leaders in Iowa.
0:39.4	Chuck Schumer gets his man for the Senate race,
0:41.8	but Donald Trump's guy flops in the governor's primary.
0:45.8	We'll give you all the results from Iowa and New Jersey and the other primaries last night.
0:49.6	And how on earth is Bill Pulte now the Director of National Intelligence?
0:54.5	We'll try and figure that one out as well.
0:56.8	Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.
0:58.5	And I'm Dasha Burns.
0:59.8	It is Wednesday, June 3rd.
1:03.7	Dasha, you stayed up too late last night watching the results coming, didn't you?
1:07.3	I can tell.
1:08.6	I'm a little grumpy over how long.
1:10.8	It took for Iowa for the
1:14.2	gubernatorial primary for the Republicans in Iowa, waiting for Iowa. This is, I have a lot of,
1:20.6	a lot of Iowa flashbacks. It was really, really exciting. This is the race for the head-to-head really on who would be the Republican
1:28.8	candidate and the gubernatorial race there. And it's a fascinating outcome, Dasha, because I think
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