Politics
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Reynolds Mocks ‘Crying’ Democrats As Poll Results Favor GOP
The mood was joyous Saturday night in Muscatine when word spread the new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showed Republican candidates leading in nearly every federal race. Sen. Joni Ernst’s campaign RV was en route from Davenport to Muscatine when the poll’s Senate results dropped at 6 p.m., showing Ernst leading Theresa Greenfield 46% to…
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Iowa Candidates Unleash Closing Messages In Election’s Final Days
More than 885,000 Iowans already have voted in an election cycle experiencing record early voting due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped candidates from running ads and making their final pitches to voters who are waiting to cast their ballot on Election Day. To give you a sense of how Iowa’s federal candidates…
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Iowa Candidates Unleash Closing Messages In Election’s Final Days
More than 885,000 Iowans already have voted in an election cycle experiencing record early voting due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped candidates from running ads and making their final pitches to voters who are waiting to cast their ballot on Election Day. To give you a sense of how Iowa’s federal candidates…
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Iowa Candidates Unleash Closing Messages In Election’s Final Days
More than 885,000 Iowans already have voted in an election cycle experiencing record early voting due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped candidates from running ads and making their final pitches to voters who are waiting to cast their ballot on Election Day. To give you a sense of how Iowa’s federal candidates…
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Joni Ernst’s TV Ad Perpetuates Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
I watch the news every morning, but by now the political commercials are driving me crazy — one after another attacking each other. Like many of you, I cannot wait until Election Day so I don’t have to listen to one more commercial. Most Republican commercials have a theme: don’t vote for the socialists, they are like…
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Progress Iowa Billboard Ties Senators’ SCOTUS Vote To Health Care
Progress Iowa has unveiled a new billboard on Fleur Drive in Des Moines pointing out votes by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett were votes against health care for Iowans. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he would like to terminate the Affordable Care Act, and said at a…
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Progress Iowa Billboard Ties Senators’ SCOTUS Vote To Health Care
Progress Iowa has unveiled a new billboard on Fleur Drive in Des Moines pointing out votes by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett were votes against health care for Iowans. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he would like to terminate the Affordable Care Act, and said at a…
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Progress Iowa Billboard Ties Senators’ SCOTUS Vote To Health Care
Progress Iowa has unveiled a new billboard on Fleur Drive in Des Moines pointing out votes by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett were votes against health care for Iowans. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he would like to terminate the Affordable Care Act, and said at a…
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‘Dark Money’ Group Funnels Money To Super PAC Boosting Ernst
Iowa Values, the “dark money” group accused of illegally coordinating with Sen. Joni Ernst’s reelection campaign, recently funneled money to Iowa Values Action, a new super PAC set up to boost Ernst and run ads against Theresa Greenfield. The Clive-based Iowa Values Action registered as a super PAC with the Federal Election Commission on July…
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’52 Rural Hospitals’ Stat Comes From Anti-Public Option Lobbyists
To make the case against voting for Democrats in the 2020 election, Republican candidates in Iowa often tout a study claiming a public option within the Affordable Care Act could force dozens of rural hospitals in the state to close. In an interview last week with Siouxland News, Sen. Joni Ernst called it an “independent…
