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In It to Win It

(11,496 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 12:01 PM Friday

BREAKING: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say.

BREAKING: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say.

CBS News (@cbsnews.com) 2025-08-29T15:30:34.278Z
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BREAKING: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say. (Original Post) In It to Win It Friday OP
Everybody's political career dies EYESORE 9001 Friday #1
She read the room. Traildogbob Friday #2
Maybe, just maybe, we'll see a crop of repugs Totally Tunsie Friday #3
Senator Concern... GB_RN Friday #16
thom tillis did. NC barbtries Friday #19
Not sufficiently MAGA? newdeal2 Friday #4
The pig fukker is leaving? UpInArms Friday #5
She can go back to castrating pigs Jilly_in_VA Friday #6
She's done her damage Zorro Friday #7
She'll just be replaced by another repuke. Probably more rabid and deranged. Happy days. beaglelover Friday #8
She's going to die eventually anyway BoRaGard Friday #9
That is hilarious! Ray Bruns Friday #11
Her words would be the best weapon against her in her re election bid kimbutgar Friday #10
That needs hildegaard28 Friday #26
She will never occupy popsdenver Friday #12
Good riddance to bad rubbish! ShazzieB Friday #13
Bye Felicia! djacq Friday #14
'Well, we're all going to die' EnergizedLib Friday #15
oh well. barbtries Friday #17
Good riddance. Joinfortmill Friday #18
She would have to run against swong19104 Friday #20
Just taking her bread bags and going home, huh? tanyev Friday #21
I hate to say it, but I truly wish her hell. 58Sunliner Friday #22
Good riddance. MLWR Friday #23
Definitely a pickup opportunity for the Democrats here Wiz Imp Friday #24
She's 55. In 5 years, she'll collect her military retirement... 3catwoman3 Friday #25
Bye bitch Eddie18 Friday #27

Traildogbob

(11,741 posts)
2. She read the room.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 12:11 PM
Friday

Rest not, in peace political corpse.
Hope she feels pain for all the hell she spread to her constituents, that also splattered onto us all.

Totally Tunsie

(11,136 posts)
3. Maybe, just maybe, we'll see a crop of repugs
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 12:15 PM
Friday

just reach the point of "I don't need this crap anymore", and they too will back out.

Susan Collins, are you listening?

barbtries

(30,713 posts)
19. thom tillis did. NC
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:20 PM
Friday

Here, there is an actual chance that a Democrat will win that seat. republicans of course will do anything to hang on to it, but there is some hope.

BoRaGard

(7,295 posts)
9. She's going to die eventually anyway
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 12:42 PM
Friday

so why not?

The nation now enters into pre-mourning with some snazzy memorial bread wrappers taking the top fashion spot all across the fruited plains.

kimbutgar

(25,917 posts)
10. Her words would be the best weapon against her in her re election bid
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:01 PM
Friday

Just play ads hearing her say that heartless comment and ask does she really care about you and your family?

hildegaard28

(769 posts)
26. That needs
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:12 PM
Friday

To be done with every Republican. Just look at Texas. They called a special session to help the flood victims, but instead they launched an extremist power grab to keep themselves in power. The flood victims still have no help.

popsdenver

(376 posts)
12. She will never occupy
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:07 PM
Friday

a place in the 1% doing that.......

(In my opinion, there are a large number of States, that would be best used as giant hazardous waste, and nuclear waste disposal sites)

barbtries

(30,713 posts)
17. oh well.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:18 PM
Friday

Maybe a Democrat can win what with the republicans fucking up every single thing as they are.

swong19104

(501 posts)
20. She would have to run against
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:20 PM
Friday

the paralympian dude who carries his own wheelchair up steps to meet prospective constituents?

Yeah, she’d have a tough campaign for sure.

Wiz Imp

(6,826 posts)
24. Definitely a pickup opportunity for the Democrats here
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:44 PM
Friday

Democrats have flipped 2 state Senate seats in Iowa this year with vote swings of over 20%. Ernst won in 2020 by just about 6.5%. And the Republican Governor is the least popular Governor in he country.

https://littlevillagemag.com/poll-kim-reynolds-remains-americas-most-unpopular-governor/

Poll: Kim Reynolds remains America’s most unpopular governor
by Paul Brennan
Jul 17, 2025

Gov. Kim Reynolds remains the most unpopular governor in America, according to the latest poll by Morning Consult. Reynolds is once again the only governor whose disapproval rating is higher than their approval rating in the opinion research firm’s quarterly survey of the approval ratings of governors.

Reynolds has ranked the least popular governor in every Morning Consult tracking poll for over two years.

“Reynolds is still the most unpopular: With the highest disapproval rating of any U.S. governor (49%), Kim Reynolds of Iowa remains America’s most unpopular governor for the sixth quarter in a row,” Morning Consult said an summary of the poll findings. “The Republican, who announced in April that she will not seek re-election next year, is the only governor with a net negative approval rating.”

Reynolds’ decision not to run for reelection, which she announced in early April, did nothing to improve her standing in the poll of Iowans. Her disapproval rating in the previous Morning Consult poll was also 49 percent.

3catwoman3

(27,596 posts)
25. She's 55. In 5 years, she'll collect her military retirement...
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:00 PM
Friday

...from her reserve career, and at 62, her senate retirement benefits.

She has taken good care of herself. Her constituents, not so much.

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