Iowa Talking Points — State of the Race, October 2024

October 24, 2024

Jeff Stein, Rob Mudd, Gentry Collins

Host Panel — No outside guest

This special pre-election edition of Iowa Talking Points featured no outside guest — bringing together the show's full host trio for an in-depth State of the Race analysis. Jeff Stein of KXEL AM/FM Radio served as moderator, joined by Rob Mudd — Chief Futurist of Mudd Advertising and founder of Mudd Studio 5 — and Gentry Collins — CEO of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce and veteran Republican strategist — for a wide-ranging breakdown of the 2024 race just two weeks before election day.

With just two weeks remaining before the November 5th election, Jeff Stein of KXEL AM/FM Radio, Rob Mudd — Chief Futurist of Mudd Advertising — and Gentry Collins — CEO of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce — reunited at Mudd Studio 5 in Cedar Falls for a special State of the Race episode. With no outside guest, the three hosts turned their full combined expertise to analyzing the closing stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign — breaking down the battleground state landscape, the closing arguments of the Trump and Harris campaigns, key Iowa races on the November ballot, and what the final two weeks of the most consequential election in recent memory looked like from Iowa's perspective.

Drawing on Gentry Collins' national Republican strategy experience, Jeff Stein's decades of Iowa political broadcasting, and Rob Mudd's sharp business and communications perspective, this episode stands as one of Iowa Talking Points' most analytically rich pre-election conversations — a genuine snapshot of the political moment just days before America voted.