Not true. The 2018 race was the closest. It is a disgrace what the GOPe did to King. I have worked with Steve on immigration issues. The left tried to brand him as a racist, which is ridiculous. McCarthy torpedoed him by taking him off of various committees. The open borders RINOs put a shiv into him. Congress and the nation lost a good man tonight. King was a big time winner in almost all of his races. He dominated the Dem candidates.
2002 -- King won the general election, defeating Council Bluffs city councilman Paul Shomshor 62%–38%. He won all the counties in the predominantly Republican district except Pottawattamie.
2004 -- King won reelection to a second term, defeating Democratic candidate Joyce Schulte, 63%–37%.
2006 -- King won reelection to a third term, defeating Schulte again, 59%–36%
2008 -- King won reelection to a fourth term, defeating Democratic candidate Rob Hubler, 60%–37%
2010 -- King won reelection to a fifth term, defeating Matt Campbell, 66%–32%
2012 -- Iowa lost a district as a result of the 2010 census. King's district was renumbered the 4th, and pushed well to the east, absorbing Mason City and Ames. This placed King and his predecessor, Latham, in the same district. Latham opted to move to the reconfigured 3rd District to challenge Democratic incumbent Leonard Boswell.
Soon afterward, former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack, the wife of former governor and then current U.S. agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack, announced she was moving to the new 4th to challenge King. King received the endorsement of Mitt Romney, who said, "I'm looking here at Steve King because this man needs to be your congressman again. I want him as my partner in Washington, D.C."[33] King won reelection to a sixth term, defeating Vilsack, 53%–45%. King won all but seven counties, none of which he had previously represented: Webster, Boone, Story, Chickasaw, Floyd, Cerro Gordo, and Winnebago.[34][35] King later said of his 2012 victory, "I faced $7 million, the best of everything Democrats can throw at me, their dream candidate and everything that can come from the Obama machine, and prevailed through all of that with 55 percent of my district that was new."
2014 -- King won reelection with 61.6% of the vote, defeating Democratic candidate Jim Mowrer.
2016 -- King won reelection, receiving 61.2% of the vote to Democratic nominee Kim Weaver's 38.6%
2018 -- King faced his closest race to date in 2018, receiving 50.4% of the vote to 47% for Democratic nominee J. D. Scholten
Obviously something went wrong if not even the GOP electorate wanted him anymore.
The open borders RINOs put a shiv into him. Congress and the nation lost a good man tonight. King was a big time winner in almost all of his races. He dominated the Dem candidates.
We need to face some ugly truths: that the GOP prefers progressive Democrats and their policies to POTUS, MAGA and conservatives like Steve King. Now we must proceed accordingly and hold the GOP as an institution responsible for this betrayal of our American Heritage.
Steve Kings problems began with Washington Examiner’s Williamson who could have cited the many times the New York Times has been cited for using misquotes when assembling his report on Cruz and Scotts reaction to of condemnation to the alleged racist remarks made by Iowa Congressman Steve King .
Williamson could have as well then ask both US Senators Scott and Cruz “Can the New York Times under those circumstances be trusted” ask if they considered that and include their reaction when making their statements in his report..
What King was denouncing was the assertions raised by the NYT interviewer using questions that reference common idioms used but are being attacked in socialist revisionist propaganda circles as racist.
That technique method is similar to NYT use of questions about LGBT practices when seeking a reaction from by a religious figure.. Which have been manipulated and blown up to be prohibited expressions under guise of being politically incorrect ..
What Williamson did was because of his lazy journalism. Which is common practice unfortunately in too many so called conservative communication venues in visual,print and talk radio. Was to support and continue to validate the “politically correct posture regurgitated by socialist revisionists.