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Mason City native Sage announces Senate bid against Joni Ernst

KNOXVILLE — A Mason City native who is an Army and Marine Corps veteran and now serves as the executive director of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce is launching a campaign for the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2026 nomination for the US Senate.
Nathan Sage did three tours of duty in the Iraq war. Sage says he’s running to fight for working class Iowans.
Sage graduated from Mason City High School, later using his GI benefits to earn a journalism degree from Kansas State University and later worked at radio stations in Knoxville and Indianola before being hired to led the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce in 2023.



