A video shared by the Iowa GOP governor dissing Obama is resurfacing online

The Republican nominee for governor in Iowa pulled back the curtain on Fox News Digital when he aired a 2009 town hall attack on Barack Obama that focused on the then-president’s name law.

Zach Lahn pulled off his victory Tuesday night when he defeated Republican Rep.

But 17 years ago, when he was a student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Lahn confronted Obama at a town hall where the 44th president was promoting the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. An old clip went viral after his win on Tuesday.

During the exchange, the video was aired by the late radio titan Rush Limbaugh, who praised Lahn as “amazing,” and said that “there’s one simple question that Obama can’t answer, [he] it removes the entire basis of Obamacare.”

A candidate in Iowa’s hotly contested gubernatorial race posted the clip on social media in May, but it gained traction after Tuesday’s primary.

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Lahn recounted the moment on Fox News Digital on Thursday and recalled how shocked she was when she was called to the event. Lahn and a roommate bought tickets to the 2009 event in Grand Junction and drove eight hours round trip twice to attend the event – first to pick up tickets and then days later to go to city hall.

“You know, I was young, and, I was in college at the time, going to the University of Colorado Boulder, so I was very angry about this whole health care discussion,” she said. “It was just my entry into some of the political discussions.”

President Barack Obama speaks with CU student Zach Lahn during a town hall meeting at Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo., on Aug. 15, 2009, discussing health insurance reform and limits on out-of-pocket costs. (Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post)

Speaking to Obama in 2009, Lahn said: “We all know that the best way to lower prices in this economy is to increase competition.”

“How can a private insurance company in the world compete with a business that doesn’t have to worry about making a profit, doesn’t have to pay local property taxes, isn’t subject to local laws? How can a company compete with that?” he asked.

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“I’m not looking for general things – I’m not looking for philosophical arguments. I’m just asking a question,” he asserted.

Obama thanked him for the question, and for the first time during the Obamacare debate, he said he might not support a public resolution, which would have allowed Americans to buy both government-run health insurance and private insurance.

President Barack Obama answers a question during a health care town hall meeting at the Central High School gym in Grand Junction, Colo., on Aug. 15, 2009. (John Moore/Getty Images)

“Of course they can’t compete if the taxpayer stands behind the public decision and puts in a lot of money,” Obama replied. “That’s not fair, so I’ve said that I won’t allow a public option of that kind because that would mean more costs in our pockets and we wouldn’t see a big improvement in quality.”

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There was no public option when Obamacare became law.

“Ultimately, what came out of it, maybe indirectly, was that he said for the first time that they might not have a public option in Obamacare,” Lahn told Fox News Digital. “Then after that, Fox and CNN and these people wanted to talk to me because Obama had just said that this important part of his plan might not be included, and it ended up not being included.”

For a minute, Obama paused to answer Lahn’s question about competition, publicly arguing against the idea that private insurance companies would have to borrow money at high interest rates, something the government would not do.

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Lahn told Fox News Digital he was not satisfied with Obama’s response at the time, describing it as “word salad.”

“I feel that many politicians today can’t give me a real answer, even if they dance about something, they don’t even get to the real issue,” he said.

Zach Lahn raises his fist in celebration after defeating his primary opponent in the Iowa GOP primary race on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (Zach Lahn for Governor via Facebook)

Lahn, a farmer and businessman who is focused on making Iowa healthier and who is heavily supported by the MAHA branch of the conservation organization, is now partnering with Iowa Democratic Auditor Rob Sand.

Although he left politics for several years to build his own business and run his family’s farm, Lahn’s passion for the issues plaguing Iowans brought him back to the fold.

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“I actually haven’t been involved in this in over a decade, and these issues I’m dealing with I really care about, whether it’s all these kids from Iowa, our family farms, our education system or the cancer rate we have in the world.”

“I don’t know how long we can last as a state without fixing these problems.”