BREAKING: Sen. Ernst OUT as GOP Struggles With Trump’s Grip on Party
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
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| 0:20.3 | Republicans Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, the principled, conservative, who was really not |
| 0:28.0 | going to bend the knee to Trump and was going to hold Pete Heggseth to account and all that |
| 0:31.3 | stuff. She's one of the good Republicans, Sarah. She is not going to be seeking re-election |
| 0:36.5 | in 2026. This adds her to a fairly long list. |
| 0:41.5 | Tom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, who's the idiot football coach in Alabama of Republicans. Tuberville. |
| 0:47.7 | Tuberville, who are not going to be running. And we already have a whole list of Democrats |
| 0:53.0 | who had thrown their hats in the ring to run against |
| 0:56.0 | Senator Ernst. Sarah, is this cause for hope? |
| 1:01.8 | It's pretty interesting. It is pretty interesting for Iowa. Now, there's a couple of things |
| 1:06.9 | happening in succession here. Not only, now, first of all, she has not confirmed that she's |
| 1:12.0 | dropping out. We should just be clear. But there are reports. She's told people, whatever, |
| 1:15.5 | she says she's going to announce it next week. But this comes on the heels of Democrats breaking |
| 1:21.5 | the Republicans' stranglehold on the state legislature. By flipping. Yeah, it happened this week where they flipped. |
| 1:28.4 | It got some attention, but not a ton, but it was a Trump plus 11 seat. |
| 1:33.1 | In a special election, Democrats won. |
| 1:38.0 | 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. |
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