Trump supports Ashley Hinson for a place in the Senate Iowa when Johnny Ernst retire

President Donald Trump On Friday, she supported the Republican representative Ashley Hinson when she ran to succeed in retired GOP Senator Johnny Ernst in Iowa.

Hinson is a former leading television news, which holds the third term, represented by the 2nd Congress of Iowa, which covers the north -east part of the state, demonstrated its support for Trump when it launched its Senate campaign on Tuesday.

“I am scoring to become the main ally of Trump’s president’s Senate of the United Statesshe said. And in the digital interview, Fox News this week Hinson emphasized that “is proud of what is standing with Trump.

Trump, in a social media report, said, “I know Ashley well, and she is a winner!”

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“I know Ashley well, and she is a winner! Loving wife and proud mother of two sons, Ashley – a wonderful man, always delivered to Iowa and will continue to do it in the US Senate,” the president said.

“Ashley Hinson will be a great senator and has complete and complete approval – it will not let you down!”

Trump’s support followed the previous approval of the leader of the majority of Senate John Tun and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which is the company of Senate GOP.

“We need conservative fighters in the Senate – and this is exactly what we get from Ashley Hinson,” Tun wrote at the beginning of Friday when he supported Hinson.

And NRSC Senator Chairman Tim Scott from South Carolina said: “By traveling from Ashley, I know that she is a fighter who needs a state to put on the agenda of President Trump in 2026 and beyond.”

Hinson has no basic GOP field for himself. Former state senator Jim Carlin and veteran Joshua Smith have already entered the main announcement of Ernst.

But the support of Trump, Tun and NRSC will further raise the Hinson, which was already considered a leader for highlighting, and probably drive away any others from joining the main one. The president’s Claut over GOP is huge, and his approval in the republican is extremely influential.

Running the Hinson Company took place several hours Following ErnstIn the video in the social media officially announced that it would not seek re -election in the next year.

“After a huge amount of prayer and reflection, I will not seek re-election in 2026,” said 55-year-old Ernst, which was first elected to the Senate in 2014, in a video posted on social media.

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Ernst, a retired army reserve and a National Guard officer who served in the war in Iraq, have been fighting for months, whether to run for re -election in 2026. And in her video, she said, “It was not a simple solution.”

Ernst for the first time attracted national attention 11 years ago by its “Make Skok” ads when she won the high -profile election in Iowa In the race for the success of the long -standing democratic senator Tom Kharkin.

And Ernst emphasized in his video that “11 years ago, Aivans chose me as the first veteran of the US Senate, and they did it to the mission – to make the Washington scream. And I proudly said we delivered waste, fraud and abuse throughout the federal government.”

Hinson, in a Message in social mediaI thanked Ernst for its “incredible service to our state and the nation” as well as for friendship. “Iowa is better thanks to your dedicated service,” she said.

In an interview with radio in Iowa on Tuesday, she said that among her priorities, when she was running for the Senate, – “safe borders, depriving men of sports girls, reducing taxes for our family families, speaking for Iowa agriculture and helping our young Cuivans who are trying to buy a family.”

Hinson also promised to campaign at all 99 Iowa, starting on the event on Friday.

And when she entered the race, Hinson was approved by the Republican Senses Jim Banks of Indiana, Katie Brit from Alabama and Markwein Malina from Oklahoma.

Most House leader Steve Skalis, most representatives of the WIP Tom Emmer, chairman of the Republican Leadership of the House of Representatives Eliza Stefanik and leader of the majority of Iow Bobby Caufman, also supported Hinson.

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Communications Director Mave Coyle, Following Hinson’s Announsement, Argued that “Republicans Failed to Convince Joni Ernst Stuck with Ashley Hinson, who has reaizedly voted to raise costs and make lifer for iowans by voting to slash medicaid, cheering on the chaotic tariffs that threaten iowa’s economy threatening social insurance. “

Responding, Hinson said Fox News Digital: “I think they are at best misinform.”

And she charged that “when and hear the lies and the fearmgering coming out of the left, it to only cover up for the fact that they have no message and no realer other than bernie and ac and now mamdani in New York,” As shee. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and New York City Democratic Mayoral Nominee Zohran Mamdani.

“If this is the direction they want to accept our country, I think the carnage will reject it all my heart,” she predicted.

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Iowa once was the main state of the BattleGround, which is the former president Barack Obama It is postponed in the Victory of the White House in 2008 and 2012. But the state moved to the right in the last election cycles, and President Donald Trump applied the state for nine points in 2016, eight points in 2020 and 13 points in November last year.

Currently, Republicans are occupying both states in the Senate – Ernst and a long -standing senator Chuck Gelley – and all four Iowa Congress, as well as all state offices, with the exception of a state auditor occupying the Democrat Rob Sand, running for the next year.

But the Democrats in Iowa are charged after this year this year turned two places in the Senate supporting GoP in special elections.

Five Democrats are already running for the Senate in Iowa. The field includes State Representative Josh Turk, Paralympic Basketball on wheelchairs, state senator Zak Wals, Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce, NOXVIL NATO -SEG, and Chairman of the School of School de -Main Jackie Norris.

“The open place in Iowa is only the last example of the Democrats that expand the senatorial card,” the Senate spokesman said in a statement, aligned in the Senate, Lauren French.

But Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), said in his statement: “NRSC is convinced that Iowans to choose the Republican to continue fighting for them and participate on the President of Trump in 2026.”

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Republicans seek not only to defend but also to expand the current 53-47 Senate in the elections next year.

Senate Republicans Received a useful card in the 2024 cycle when they turned four places from the blue to red to return the majority.

But the party in power – Republicans – traditionally face political winds in the intermediate elections. However, the current Reading Map 2026 shows that GOP may go offended in some key states.

In the BattleGround Georgia, which Trump narrowly conducted the White House in last year’s race, Republicans view the first Senator John Osof as the most vulnerable Democrat, who is over -election next year.

They are also focused on the Battlegroun Michigan, where at the end of next year the Democratic Harry Senator retire, and Swing State New Hampshire, where long-time Senator Senator Zhanna Shahin decided not to look for a fourth six-year term in the Senate.

Also on the NRSC target list is a blue-blue Minnesota, where Senator Democratic Senator Tina Smith is not running over.

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But GOP protects the open place in the BattleGround North Carolina, where the Republican Senator Tom Tils decided not to achieve re-election. And Republicans will probably be forced to spend resources on the defense of Senator John from Ohio, who was intended to succeed the former senator and now the president-president J. J. Vens-if he faces the former Democrat Serrod Brown Senator next year.

Meanwhile, Democrats are also focused on moderate Senator Susan Collins, who has not yet reported its expected re-election in 2026-in the blue state of Meng.