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- Neither party has spent much in Iowa in presidential campaign “Don’t Sleep On Iowa,” is more than just a motto on her blue t-shirt, Iowa House Democratic leader Jennifer Konfrst shouted to Kamala Harris supporters gathered in the basement of a local party headquarters in Waukee. It’s political intuition that is proving to be prescient, she said Sunday, pointing to a respected Iowa pollster’s bombshell findings this weekend that Donald Trump is losing to Harris in a state he previously won twice by comfortable margins. “Who is fired up from the Iowa poll!” Konfrst, 50, exhorted to dozens of cheering Democrats. The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll conducted by J. Ann Selzer, which has a nationally respected track record, shows Harris up 3 percentage points, 47% to 44%. This comes as other recent Iowa polls have shown Trump with sizable leads — and Trump and other Republicans are bashing Selzer’s poll as an outlier. “It was a shock, believe you me, when I went into the office after the first night of interviewing.” Selzer told Bloomberg television Monday. “No one would expect Kamala Harris would have leap-frogged over Donald Trump into the lead.” NN: This is a warning sign to me.