NEW: Zach Lahn’s Own Fitness Account Caught Him Red-Handed Living in Kansas
Daily Beast: “Strava showed a ‘Zach Lahn’ biking around Kansas just last year … there were precisely zero rides in Iowa”
DES MOINES – New reporting from the Daily Beast caught Kansas carpetbagger and career political operative Zach Lahn lying about where he lives (again).
Despite lying and claiming “he made the full move back to” Iowa in 2023, Lahn’s Strava account shows he logged multiple bike rides in Kansas in 2025 — “just months before he launched his Iowa gubernatorial bid.” According to the Daily Beast, “all of the routes happened to start, and end at the $2 million home owned by the Lahns in Kechi, Kansas, a suburb of Wichita, which is roughly 385 miles from the Iowa governor’s mansion … There were precisely zero rides in Iowa.”
Lahn “immediately erased” the account after the Daily Beast followed it — “a crude attempt to wipe Kansas ties when flight records for Lahn’s private plane, owned by Buckeye Creek Ventures LLC, already indicate he may have spent weeks in Kansas around the dates of his Strava activity.” Lahn’s campaign confirmed the account belonged to him but couldn’t provide any evidence of bike rides he took in Iowa.
From Iowa Democratic Party spokesperson Terra Hernandez:
“As if Iowans needed more proof that carpetbagger and career political operative Zach Lahn lives in Kansas, take it from his own fitness account. Lahn can delete his Strava, but he can’t pedal away from the fact that he lives in Kansas and has spent his entire campaign lying about it.”
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