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Businessman and farmer Zach Lahn defeated Trump-endorsed Rep. Randy Feenstra in Iowa's Republican gubernatorial primary by less than one percentage point, marking the first loss for a Trump-backed candidate in a major 2026 midterm primary. The result exposes a growing fault line between Trump's endorsement apparatus and the Make America Healthy Again movement aligned with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with implications for Republican primaries nationwide.