Like many Iowa Republican politicos, Zach Nunn cut his teeth as a staffer to longtime Sen. Charles E. Grassley.
After graduating from college in 2002, Nunn joined the senator’s office. He quickly learned Grassley’s quirks, including his famed jogging habit, which sometimes leaves reporters in his dust.
“I was just watching the reporters be like, ‘Do we chase a senior senator down the hallway?’” Nunn recalled.