Republican senator Joni Ernst of Iowa will not run for re-election | US news
The US Republican Senator Joni Ernst is not expected to be re -elected next year.
CBS News was the first to report that Ernst gave to Condandantes. plans to announce Next week’s decision not to be re -elected. Ernst Office and Campaign did not respond immediately to comments requests.
When Ernst, 55, was elected in 2014, he became the first woman to represent Iowa in the US Senate. The decision is following the announcement of not re -election by Iowa Governor Republican Kim Reynolds. At the beginning of this week, a democrat reigned in 2024 in a special election for a state Senate seat in an Iowa region in an Iowa region that voted for a great extent in Donald Trump. Zafer has increased his hopes in a state that the Democrats have gone away from them in the last decade and have not gained a senate race since 2008.
Republicans are currently controlling the US Senate with 53 to 47 margins. Despite Trump’s low approval ratings, increasing economic uncertainty and historical patterns showing that the president’s party lost ground in the midterm elections, non -Partisan election analysts are preferred to protect the control of the Republicans.
Ernst will be the second republican senator who was not re -elected after he announced his retirement the day after he voted for Trump’s signed indigenous policy bill from North Carolina. According to Cook political report, only the North Carolina race is launched from 22 Republican chairs for the next year. There in-line Ernst’s seat is likely to stay in the Republican column.
At the beginning of this summer, Ernst attracts Fierce Backlash when voters rejects the fear that the Medicaid cuts in the Republican immigration and tax package will risk their lives by saying the following: iz We will die. ”
Ernst doubled in a video instead of stepping back or apologizing. “I made a wrong assumption that everyone in the auditorium understands that we all understand that we would all disappear from this world,” he said. “That’s why I’m sorry and I’m really happy that I don’t have to bring the subject of the tooth fairy to the agenda.”
When Ernst also expressed his reservations with Pete Hegseth, he encountered a sharp criticism of the President’s supporters, and then Trump’s candidate to chair the Ministry of Defense, which encountered allegations. sexual assault – denied – and has repeatedly expressed opposition to women in war roles.
Ernst, faced with a threat of primary difficulties of a Hakya, survived the sexual assault of the problems of women in the army, Ernst, who survived the sexual assault, entered the pressure and ultimately voted to verify Hegseth.
The Democrats celebrated Ernst’s possible retirement. He announced that they would run for at least five democratic candidates.
Rita Hart, President of the Iowa Democratic Party, Rita Hart, “Joni Ernst is retired because they know that Iowans are angry for him and the Washington Republicans, and because they threaten our costs of health and increase for families.
