Winner, Winner: Sarah Trone Garriott on faith, showing up, and good leadership

About this episode

In this episode, Lauren Harper Pope is in conversation with Sarah Trone Garriott, who’s running for Congress in Iowa’s 3rd congressional district against Republican Zach Nunn. Sarah is part of Welcome’s Win the Middle slate for the 2026 cycle. Sarah serves in the Iowa State Senate and has flipped not one but two seats in the Iowa Senate. She defeated a popular Republican mayor in 2020, and in 2022 after redistricting, she was drawn into a district with a Democratic colleague. Instead of running in a primary against her colleague, Sarah uprooted her home and moved to a neighboring district to take on the GOP Senate president in an R+5 district. Not only did she win, but she beat him by three…