What Tom Harkin would do if he were running for office in 2024

Former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, speaks recently in Council Bluffs at an event for State Rep. Josh Turek, D-Council Bluffs. (Photo By Douglas Burns)

Tom Harkin still has it.

The pulse of Iowa on instinct auto dial.

And a force of moral clarity and that defining doggedness, an aw-shucks ease with voters, and a rhetorical sledgehammer ever ready when he …