[nonliberal]

He has my vote.

[cotton1706]

Grassley was elected in Reagan’s 1980 landslide, so he’ll likely be retiring anyway.

[napscoordinator]

Grassley hasn’t decided to retire yet.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Get rid of the fossils or the GOP goes the way of the Whigs.

[z3n]

"...without first investigating President Trump’s allegations of election fraud."

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Election fraud? White Supremacist alert!!!

[FreeReign]

...Carlin said Grassley and others in congress failed Americans by certifying Joe Biden as the Electoral College winner without first investigating President Trump’s allegations of election fraud.

And just like that he's got my support.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[sphinx]

Chuck Grassley has been a good senator for a long time. Not perfect, but better than most. He's 87. There is one and only one reason that would justify an old warhorse like Grassley running again. That is if he is the only person with a plausible chance of holding the seat for the GOP. A lot of old timers get talked into one or two too many runs for precisely that reason -- Dick Lugar comes to mind -- and while the short term calculation is understandable, it often comes back to bite us in the long run. 2022 has a better than average chance of being a better than average Republican year, and Iowa should be able to elect a competent conservative in a normal year. Grassley should bow out.

The biggest risk of losing that seat for the GOP is a declining Grassley doing something to make himself a joke on the campaign trail. The second biggest risk is for the party to fracture a dozen ways as everyone with more than ten supporters jumps at the chance to run in a presumptively favorable year. The GOP has a long and sad record of splinter factions winning in a badly divided field, with a disastrous fringe candidate as the result. That has cost us control of the Senate more than once in the last generation.