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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst will not run for reelection in Iowa, sources say  The Washington Post Joni Ernst won’t seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say  CBS News Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst won’t seek reelection to third term, sources tell CNN  CNN Republican Sen. Joni Ernst won’t seek re-election in Iowa in 2026  NBC News Ernst Is Part of a Bigger Problem for …

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq War combat veteran and Iowa’s first woman elected to Congress, is expected to announce next month she will not seek reelection, leaving another vacancy in an Iowa seat that could have ripple effects down the ballot as Democrats look to the state for pickup opportunities. As Senate Republicans work …

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst set to retire  Axios Joni Ernst won’t seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say  CBS News Republican Sen. Joni Ernst won’t seek re-election in Iowa in 2026  NBC News Iowa’s Joni Ernst to retire from Congress, despite pressure from Republican leaders  MSNBC News Ernst Is Part of a Bigger Problem for Republicans in Iowa  Bloomberg.com Source link

Facebook Tweet Email Link Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst has decided not to seek reelection to a third term, two people familiar with the decision say, and is poised to make an announcement next week. Ernst has been wrestling with the decision for months, but began telling friends in recent days. Her retirement creates an open Senate seat in Iowa. …

After a three-month trial in which attorneys for then-New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said it was his wife, Nadine, who was to blame for the cash and gold found in their Englewood Cliffs home, Menendez appears to be having a change of heart. In a letter to Judge Sidney Stein ahead of Nadine’s Sept. 11 sentencing, Bob Menendez wrote that …

Graham Platner, a 40-year-old Army and Marine veteran who served four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, launched his campaign for the Senate in Maine on Tuesday, joining a growing Democratic primary field seeking to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Platner, an oyster farmer who was born and raised in Sullivan, Maine, will run on a platform of universal …

CLEVELAND — Former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, launched a comeback campaign Monday, setting the stage for a 2026 special election that could decide partisan control of the Senate. Brown will challenge Sen. Jon Husted, the Republican whom Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appointed this year to fill the vacancy created by JD Vance’s election as vice president. “We had no intention, …

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said he intends to investigate whether Meta’s generative AI products exploit, deceive, or harm children, after leaked internal documents showed the company’s chatbots were allowed to have “romantic” and “sensual” chats with children.  “Is there anything – ANYTHING – Big Tech won’t do for a quick buck?” Hawley wrote in a post on X announcing the …

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) tried to make a point about crime in Washington, D.C. — but critics are focusing on mistake he repeated instead. During a Fox News interview on Wednesday, Mullin was seemingly unaware of the identity of Muriel Bowser, the mayor of the nation’s capital, as he continued to use male pronouns to describe her. “The left media, …

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of people cheered Sen. Ruben Gallego at a town hall meeting in eastern Iowa Saturday as the first-term Arizona Democrat assailed the massive, Republican-backed tax bill signed by President Donald Trump as likely to make “America poorer and sicker.” Gallego’s upbeat event struck the opposite tone from Rep. Mike Flood’s town hall meeting earlier in …