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[Iowa] Governor Reynolds Won’t Back Congressman Steve King in 2020 Primary Fight
WHO Television Channel 13 ^ | January 9, 2019 | Dave Price

Posted on 01/10/2019 8:04:42 AM PST by jjotto

DES MOINES, Iowa–2020 is not 2018. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds chose U.S. Representative Steve King, 4th District Congressman from Kiron, to serve as one of her ceremonial campaign co-chairs in the 2018 re-election. But she told Channel 13 Wednesday that she will not endorse King in his primary election in 2020.

"The last election was a wake-up call for it to be that close," Reynolds said during an interview in her formal office at the Iowa Statehouse, "That indicates that it does open the door for other individuals to take a look at that."

King won re-election in 2018. But despite a nearly 70,000 registered voter advantage that Republicans have over Democrats in the district, King only beat his Democratic challenger, former professional baseball player J.D. Scholten, by three points.

"I will stay out of the primary," the governor said, "I'm not going to weigh in."

The revelation by Reynolds follows critical comments she made about King following the November election when she said, "I think that Steve King needs to make a decision whether he wants to represent the values of the 4th District or he needs to find something else to do."

King has faced criticism in the past for endorsing a white supremacist mayoral candidate in Toronto last year and comments about immigrants.

Tuesday morning, three-term State Senator Randy Feenstra, a Hull Republican, announced that he would run for King's seat in 2020.

"The President needs effective conservative leaders in Congress who will not only support his agenda, but actually get things done,” Feenstra said in a statement. “Today, Iowa’s 4th District doesn’t have a voice in Washington, because our current representative’s caustic nature has left us without a seat at the table. We don’t need any more sideshows or distractions, we need to start winning for Iowa’s families,” the statement also said.

King's son, Jeff, who serves as the Congressman's campaign manager, responded, "Today, misguided political opportunism, fueled by establishment puppeteers, has revealed that Mr. Feenstra is easily swayed by the lies of the Left. Today’s announcement by Feenstra is the third attempt by the establishment in as many primary cycles to take the 4th District out of the hands of grassroots Republicans. Further, it’s an obvious attempt to undermine an effective and leading Congressional ally of the President’s whom Trump frequently refers to as ‘the world’s most conservative human being.’ From his statements, it appears that Mr. Feenstra offers Republican voters nothing but warmed over talking points from liberal blogs and failed Democratic candidates.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: gope; immigration; iowa; steveking
Cheap Labor Express already ramping up to primary GOP conservative candidates in 2020.

Watch Mitt Romney and Ronna McDaniel.

1 posted on 01/10/2019 8:04:42 AM PST by jjotto
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To: jjotto
"I will stay out of the primary," the governor said, "I'm not going to weigh in."

Said after doing that very thing. dingbat.

2 posted on 01/10/2019 8:10:59 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Con-gre$$, the biggest welfare class this country has ever produced.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

She reminds me of every squishy female Republican politician. Her own election was closer than it should have been, because she is such a non-entity. Wish we were in King’s district. Our new rep is a Dem woman. Ugh.


3 posted on 01/10/2019 8:19:59 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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To: jjotto

She is doing the right thing. Keep her nose out of it, and let the chips fall where they may. There is a 3rd candidate behind the curtain. And it’s anybodys guess if there are more than that.


4 posted on 01/10/2019 9:02:04 AM PST by Iowa Granny (Clintion ruined a dress, but Obama ruined a Nation.)
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To: jjotto

“White Supremacist”=Any White person who dares to point out the problem that a changing demographic poses to a City or County. All one has to do is look at Minnesota for reference.


5 posted on 01/10/2019 9:13:58 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Ming is a great guy, and a true patriot, and thus has the full weight of the disinformation campaign, extremely well funded, arrayed against him.

Unfortunately Republicans in general, and female Republicans especially perhaps, tend to be very, very squishy and will not defend conservatism.

Republicans are not trained to fight back, the chief problem is that they accept the BS premises that leftists lay out. She apparently accepts, at face value, that Rep. King is a KKK member or somesuch. Republicans want to play all nicey-nice while democrat leftists play by street rules and stick a shiv in her back. Pathetic.

Perhaps it is she who needs to find something else to do. We’re in a war, and all they do is surrender.


6 posted on 01/10/2019 9:30:50 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: jjotto

Steve King is good but anyone knows about the Hull Republican?


7 posted on 01/10/2019 9:37:40 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Deplorable American1776

Feenstra is the definition of establishment Republican and has been around a long time.


8 posted on 01/10/2019 9:56:29 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: jjotto
King understands the concept of a nation--something the new world order crowd have been trying to undermine since the UN was launched in 1945. It is very important that people understand what is behind this attack.

Here is some ammunition:

Surrender By Subterfuge

Answer To George W. Bush On Immigration

9 posted on 01/10/2019 10:11:06 AM PST by Ohioan
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