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A (0:00)
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B (0:30)
Republican Senator Joanie Ernst of Iowa, the principled, principled conservative who was really not going to bend the knee to Trump and was going to hold Pete Hegseth to account and all that stuff. She's one of the good Republicans, Sarah. She is not going to be seeking reelection in 2026. This adds her to a fairly long list. Thom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, who's the idiot football coach in Alabama, of Tuberville, who are not going to be running. And we already have a whole list of Democrats who had thrown their hats in the ring to run against Senator Ernst. Sarah, is this cause for hope?
C (1:12)
It's pretty interesting. It is pretty interesting for Iowa. Now there's a couple things happening in succession here, not only now. First of all, she has not confirmed that she is dropping out. We should just be clear. But there are reports she's told people whatever she says she's going to announce it next week. But this comes on the heels of Democrats breaking the Republicans stranglehold on the state legislature.
B (1:35)
Happened by flipping.
C (1:36)
Yeah, it happened this week where they flipped. It was kind of, it got some attention, but not a ton. But it was a Trump +11 seat in a special election. Democrats won. Now, if you're Ernst and you're running in an off year, and I think people are pretty aware at this point that Donald Trump turns people out for him and not for the rest of the party. And so I think she's pretty worried that she was going to lose, but she also, I think was not looking forward to running. So a and then you look at the number of Democrats in the field, which mean people thought they could win, right? You got Zach Walls, who I remember from back in the day because he has two lesbian moms and he testified as like a college student in favor of gay marriage and has subsequently stayed involved in politics. But there's a bunch of other people running.
B (2:32)
Josh Turek, who was just interviewed in the last 24 hours by our own Lauren Egan, you can see that on the channel. Ding, ding, ding, which means there's going.
C (2:41)
To be A robust Democratic primary and then. But I think Ernst, too, was worried about the humiliation that she suffered with being passed over for Hegseth, don't you think?