Branstad to Announce Candidacy Friday

Source: KCRG

DES MOINES - Former Gov. Terry Branstad is expected to announce Friday he will become a candidate for a fifth term.

Branstad, who has been president of Des Moines University since 2003, will speak to faculty and staff privately before a 1 p.m. news conference at the school’s Student Education Center.

According to university staff, Branstad will make an announcement related to his future with the university.

Branstad has been expected to decide this month whether will run for governor, a job he held from 1983 to 1999. It’s expected he will announce he’s stepping down as university president to see office again.

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Yay. That's the best news ever.

And is the current guv a Dem or an R?

Iowa is a mixed bag. Ex. Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin.

He's GW Bush with a nastier personality. We haven't had a genuine Democrat in the governor's office since Harold Hughes (Tom Vilsack and Chet Culver are both DINOs).