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Joni Ernst
minimum wage increase
Feb. 5, 2021
There Was Some Late-Night Maneuvering on the Minimum Wage Joni Ernst tried to set up a trap for moderate Democrats during the vote-a-rama. But Bernie Sanders outfoxed her and avoided a recorded vote.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Dec. 2, 2020
Iowa Democratic Candidate Trailing by 6 Votes Will Appeal to the House In a race that was essentially tied, Rita Hart wants the kind of lengthy investigation Congress can offer, but Republicans are crying foul.
By Ed Kilgore
poll position
Oct. 30, 2020
There’s an Outlier Poll for Whatever You Want to Hear Right Now Polling averages in presidential and Senate races are fairly stable, but you can cherry-pick surveys going in all sorts of directions.
By Ed Kilgore
Where the Trump Revolution Started and Ended Republicans thought they had a realignment on their hands four years ago. Iowa shows why they were wrong.
By Ben Jacobs
poll position
Oct. 20, 2020
The Three States With Both Close Presidential and Senate Races In Georgia, North Carolina, and Iowa, Biden and Trump are virtually tied, and so too are Senate candidates.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Oct. 16, 2020
Joni Ernst Bombs on Must-Know Soybean Question in Debate Republican Ernst became famous for her 2014 ads bragging about her experience castrating hogs on an Iowa farm. She seems to have lost touch.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Oct. 14, 2020
We May Have to Wait for Senate Election Results, Too For reasons ranging from slow counts of mail ballots to funky majority-vote requirements, we may not know who controls the Senate until January.
By Ed Kilgore
poll position
Sept. 22, 2020
New State Polls Show Biden Landslide and Narrow Trump Win Are Both Possible Biden’s national lead is steady, but a shift of a few points in either direction could produce a big shift in Electoral votes.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
July 24, 2020
Democrats’ Chances of Retaking the Senate Keep Improving Right now the Senate landscape is shifting steadily toward Democrats, who have far fewer vulnerable seats to defend.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
July 17, 2020
RBG Health Scare a Reminder of Republican Plans to Ram Through Nominee This Year Flipping a liberal Supreme Court seat could happen as late as a post-election lame-duck session of the Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Picked the Wrong Hostage in Battle Over Confederate-Named Military Bases Senator Chuck Grassley predicts that Republicans will override Trump if he vetoes the defense bill to block the renaming of military bases.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
July 7, 2020
Ranks of Republican Women in Senate Could Be Decimated in November As many as four of the GOP’s nine women in the Senate could lose, and a fifth is a prospect for a party switch.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Apr. 1, 2020
Republican Women in Congress Will Remain a Small Band in 2021 The small ranks of Republican women in the Senate could fall in 2020, and probably won’t rise above the current 13 members in the House.
By Ed Kilgore
domestic abuse
Feb. 14, 2020
Domestic Violence Survivors Want Legal Protections, Not Platitudes Senator Joni Ernst came out as a survivor — then held up a vote on a crucial law because it would strip abusers of their guns. A new ad calls her out.
By Sarah Jones
GOP Senator: If Elected, Joe Biden Could Be Immediately Impeached Iowa’s Joni Ernst said Democrats have lowered the bar for impeachment and Biden “should be very careful what he’s asking for.”
By Adam K. Raymond
impeachment
Jan. 27, 2020
GOP Senator Suggests Her Party Is Using Ukraine to Hurt Biden in the Primary Joni Ernst contradicted the talking point that Trump was simply rooting out corruption, with no intention of hurting Biden’s electoral shot.
By Matt Stieb
2020 elections
Dec. 23, 2019
Democratic Money Mobilizing to Win Senate It will still be an uphill battle for Democrats, but they have a decent shot at giving a new president a fighting change to succeed.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Sept. 5, 2019
Iowa Republican Senator Wants to Gut Social Security ‘Behind Closed Doors’ The salt-of-the-earth Senator Ernst is exposing her inner wing nut in treating the safety net as a “problem” elites must “solve.”
By Ed Kilgore
electoral college
Aug. 21, 2019
No, Joni Ernst, Iowans Don’t Need the Electoral College to Influence Presidents It’s funny that the senator for the first-in-the-nation-caucus state thinks nobody would pay attention to Iowa if not for its six electoral votes.
By Ed Kilgore
Iowa Democrat Aims to Knock Off Steve King, If Republicans Don’t Do It First J.D. Scholten nearly beat King in the 2018 midterms. If the old demagogue survives his primary, Scholten will be waiting.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 senate elections
July 18, 2019
Susan Collins’s Approval Rating Dives As Reelection Contest Approaches The senator is losing popularity and is lashed to a president who is even more unpopular than she is in Maine.
By Ed Kilgore
judicial appointments
Feb. 28, 2019
Trump Aide, Thomas Protégé Confirmed for Top Circuit Court Neomi Rao, with an assist from Clarence Thomas, satisfied conservatives on abortion policy, and could be a candidate for a Supreme Court opening.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans Have Tolerated Steve King’s Racism for a Long Time Until very recently, his fellow Republicans were happy to express solidarity with King despite his notorious nativism.
By Ed Kilgore
senate judiciary committee
Jan. 3, 2019
Republicans Finally Appoint Two Women to the Senate Judiciary Committee Joni Ernst and Marsha Blackburn are trusted party loyalists and hard-core anti-abortion lawmakers who can provide cover for their party’s misogyny.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Lawmakers Break With Trump on Transgender Military Ban Several senators have called out the ban, saying any qualified American should be able to serve in the military.
By Adam K. Raymond
Why the Midterms Were Bad News for Women Even though some high-profile female candidates got elected.
By Ann Friedman
America Votes for Change, Gives Up on Hope The country wanted to throw the bums in power out, and the bums in power were the Democrats.
By Frank Rich
midterms 2014
Nov. 5, 2014
11 Big Firsts From the 2014 Midterm Elections Meet the first black Republican woman in Congress, and more.
By Katie Zavadski
the national interest
Oct. 16, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
