DES MOINES, Iowa–State Sen. Joni Ernst defeated Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) here, likely becoming the Republican pickup that handed the GOP control of the Senate. Ernst emerged from relative obscurity in March with a television ad that made her
Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst has been steadily pulling away from Democrat Bruce Braley for the last few months in Iowa. But Braley is warning his supporters to ignore the polls. He insists they’re wrong — and he says the
The latest polls have Republican Joni Ernst opening a commanding lead over Democrat Bruce Braley in the Iowa Senate contest. Braley is a clumsy gaffe-machine candidate who shouldn’t be within 10 points of her. (Considering how many objectively awful candidates
On Saturday, the Des Moines Register released its final poll of the critical Senate race, showing Republican Joni Ernst with a commanding seven-point lead over Democrat Rep. Bruce Braley. The state Senator and military veteran is favored by 51 percent
Editor’s Note: This massive 2014 elections story appeared in the Saturday edition of the Des Moines Register. Joni Ernst has charged to achieve a 7-point lead over Democrat Bruce Braley in a new Iowa Poll, which buoys the GOP’s hope
Iowa Democrats have chosen a tough row to hoe with trial lawyer Bruce Braley, who is running for the U.S. Senate in mostly rural Iowa. Braley was heard denigrating farmers, and now, a closing TV ad slams the candidate, saying
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom”, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Iowa Joni Ernst predicated a win next Tuesday against democrat Bruce Braley. Ernst said, “It’s going to be a tight race but we are on a 99-county
Apparently having learned nothing from complaints that they were flat broke when she and husband Bill left the White House backfiring so disastrously for her, now Hillary is whining about big money in politics – as if she and Bill’s
A new ad featuring talking chickens threatens to further place embattled Iowa Senate Democratic candidate Rep. Bruce Braley on the defensive for attempting to sue his next-door neighbor over chickens she uses as therapy animals for autistic children. The viral
On Thursday Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst decided to skip a meeting with The Des Moines Register’s editorial board saying that the paper has so favored her opponent that her time would be better spent campaigning. This prompted a
Tuesday first lady Michelle Obama returned to Iowa to campaign for the Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley after messing up his name at an event earlier this month. Obama said, “Let me say that one more time, Bruce BRALEY.”
The Hill said it over four days ago, “Ebola has become the October surprise of this year’s midterm elections, with Democrats and Republicans doing battle over everything from restrictions on travel to the disposal of a victim’s remains.” ABC followed
At the White House Press Briefing this afternoon, Press Secretary Josh Earnest responded to Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) who criticized the administration’s response to Ebola during a congressional hearing today. Braley, now running for Senate in Iowa against Republican candidate
Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail for Iowa Senate Democrat candidate Bruce Braley on Saturday, but her rally speech wasn’t as effective as she had hoped as the first lady mispronounced the candidate’s name seven times. During her stump speech
Iowa GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst declared two surprising stances in a Saturday debate with Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA), saying separately that she would consider increasing taxes to shore up Social Security and that she does not support repealing
Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley claimed in a debate with GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst that he has “never” met liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg, but a press release on his website shows he appeared at an event with Bloomberg four years
A conservative group spoofing a video contest sponsored by MoveOn.or and MayDay.us is improbably leading in votes. The contest, organized by MayDay in partnership with MoveOn and other liberal groups, is aimed at finding a video about reducing “the corrupting
Beleaguered Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley can’t seem to catch a break in what many assume has now gone from a sure win to a complete and total loss in his now uphill battle against surging Republican Joni Ernst. Just as
A placid debate between GOP state senator Joni Ernst and Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley became heated in its closing minutes as Braley lunged at Ernst with attacks over the “Koch brothers” and Ernst swung back by asking how Braley could
In a race that may determine which party controls the U.S. Senate, Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst has taken a six-point lead over Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) in the Des Moines Register‘s Iowa Poll that was released on Saturday.
DES MOINES, Iowa–The next-door neighbor who Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) threatened with legal action over four pet chickens that occasionally wandered into his lawn said she has made up her mind to back the GOP Senate candidate this fall –
Despite wishful thinking by Democrats and some media outlets that Democrat Bruce Braley had somehow righted the ship in Iowa, a new Quinnipiac poll just out indicates otherwise. Ernst closes the traditional Democrat gender gap among women down to 50
Did Congressman Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) really try to paint State Senator Joni Ernst (R-Red Oak) as the extreme candidate on the abortion issue in Iowa’s U.S. Senate race? Why yes, yes he did in an ad released yesterday. Here’s the
As pointed out in a new Gallup poll revealing Obama’s disastrous approval numbers in Iowa, the state has played a unique roll in his political career. Now it seems they’ve turned on him, even more so than the rest of
Following up on a Weekly Standard Report, Breitbart News has discovered a seemingly abandoned Twitter feed that may yet prove to be another major embarrassment for Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley. Trial lawyer Tom Bottaro is hosting the upcoming Braley event and
In what’s now considered a “key Senate race”, one in which Republican Joni Ernst initially wasn’t even supposed to be competitive, Ernst and the Democrat’s new John Edwards, Bruce Braley are now all tied up. PPP’s newest Iowa Senate poll
The Hill reports, Democrat party “increasingly worries (Iowa) could be the tipping point for Senate control,” as Rep. Bruce Braley continues to mostly fail and now flail in an effort to hold off the surging campaign of Republican Joni Ernst. Recent
Iowa Democrat and Senate candidate Rep Bruce Braley continues to devolve into something of a political caricature. It’s gotten so bad even The Daily Beast has taken note. A new ad out from America Rising reveals Braley’s inspiration for getting
Democrat Bruce Braley started out with a solid lead, 6 – 12 depending upon the poll. At the beginning of the year the conventional wisdom was that he was a stellar candidate in all but a can’t lose position. That’s
We already know that Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley doesn’t think much of farmers, given that he called Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) a “farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” at a January fundraiser. Now, given new video
Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley already had a perception problem for being an out-of-touch, elitist trial lawyer who mocks farmers. Now, he’s angered neighbors in his Brooklyn and Holiday Lake community for filing a formal complaint against a neighbor and her therapeutic
The same Democrats who were once feeling confident about Rep. Bruce Braley winning a U.S. Senate seat in Iowa are now worried if Braley might not turn out to be the biggest bust in what looks to be an extremely
As American veterans were languishing on wait lists unable to get critical health care they deserved and needed, Iowa Democrat and Senate candidate Rep. Bruce Braley appears to have spent two years mostly ducking his responsibilities on the Veterans Affairs Committee
The Cook Political Report has moved the Iowa Senate race pitting Republican Joni Ernst against liberal Democrat Bruce Braley to the Toss Up category. With Tom Harkin retiring, Republicans appear to be united behind a surging Ernst, while Braley has
“Any way you slice the numbers, you end up with a close race. This is one that bears watching as the campaign unfolds,” said Lee Miringoff of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, referring to a Marist poll in Iowa’s
A liberal trial lawyer touting his youth working on a farm who is running for the Senate in rural Iowa is suing his next-door neighbor in a gated vacation home community over chickens she uses as therapy animals for autistic
Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst dared Democrats to play the phony war on women card on her while addressing the Iowa GOP convention on Saturday. Ernst, an Iraq War veteran who serves in the National Guard, has led in
Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst leads Democrat Bruce Braley in another poll. A Vox Populi poll has Ernst with a five-point lead (49%-44%), and it is the third straight poll to have Ernst ahead after she secured the nomination
Just days after becoming Iowa’s Republican Senate nominee, Joni Ernst has taken the lead over Democrat Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) in two polls in a race that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. A poll by Loras College’s
A KFC owner in Iowa who has been accused of instructing employees not to hire too many black people will host a fundraiser on Friday for Iowa’s presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA), who is running
