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King Lashes Out At Opponents, Blames NYT For GOP Primary
Congressman Steve King used his opening statement during a recent debate in Spencer, Iowa, to rail against his fellow Republicans for failing to “defend” him against a 2019 New York Times article King blames for the primary challenges he is facing. “They’re all here because they believe the New York Times,” King said, pointing to…
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King Lashes Out At Opponents, Blames NYT For GOP Primary
Congressman Steve King used his opening statement during a recent debate in Spencer, Iowa, to rail against his fellow Republicans for failing to “defend” him against a 2019 New York Times article King blames for the primary challenges he is facing. “They’re all here because they believe the New York Times,” King said, pointing to…
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King Lashes Out At Opponents, Blames NYT For GOP Primary
Congressman Steve King used his opening statement during a recent debate in Spencer, Iowa, to rail against his fellow Republicans for failing to “defend” him against a 2019 New York Times article King blames for the primary challenges he is facing. “They’re all here because they believe the New York Times,” King said, pointing to…
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IA-Sen: Latest Developments In Fast-Approaching Dem Primary
Three weeks from today, Iowans will know the fate of their favored candidates in local, state and federal races. As of Tuesday morning, 198,523 Democrats and 157,792 Republicans requested absentee ballots for a total of 356,315, far surpassing the total number of votes cast in the 2018 and 2016 primaries. Mail-in voting will play a greater…
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Pro-Life Endorsement For Feenstra Undermines King’s Signature Issue
Congressman Steve King often boasts of his anti-abortion accomplishments, the primary one being the “heartbeat” bill he introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that the Iowa Legislature would later pass a version of. “Iowa became, for a time, the No. 1 most pro-life state in the union,” King said during a recent online forum…
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GOP’s ‘Slow, Chaotic’ COVID Response Endangers Iowans, Dems Say
Ahead of Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Des Moines today, Iowa Democrats used the opportunity to point out the ways they believe the Trump Administration and Gov. Kim Reynolds have failed to protect frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic. As they were speaking, Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs reported that Pence’s flight to Iowa was delayed…
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GOP’s ‘Slow, Chaotic’ COVID Response Endangers Iowans, Dems Say
Ahead of Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Des Moines today, Iowa Democrats used the opportunity to point out the ways they believe the Trump Administration and Gov. Kim Reynolds have failed to protect frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic. As they were speaking, Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs reported that Pence’s flight to Iowa was delayed…
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Finkenauer: Blaming Workers For COVID Outbreaks Is ‘Gross & Wrong’
Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer did not take kindly to recent remarks aimed at meatpacking plant employees, using Twitter Thursday to criticize the Health and Human Services secretary for blaming outbreaks of COVID-19 on workers’ “home and social” conditions. From her personal Twitter account, Finkenauer said the comments made by Secretary Alex Azar “are gross and wrong.”…
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New Axne Bill Sets Up Local, State Governments With COVID Grants
Congresswoman Cindy Axne heard from several Iowa mayors Wednesday who are expecting multi-million-dollar budget shortfalls this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, with lasting impacts on local businesses, recreational offerings and municipal services still unknown. Council Bluffs Mayor Matt Walsh estimates his city will lose $5.2 million in Fiscal Year 2020, concluding June 30. Gabe…
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Ernst Flips Message On COVID In Iowa, Now Says It’s ‘Been A Hard Time’
Sen. Joni Ernst was asked this week to describe how Iowa is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, providing the Trump campaign a markedly different answer from how she described the state two weeks ago. “It has been a hard time in Iowa, but because we have such strong leadership coming from the White House we…
