Outside of Iowa, Democrats view the Maine seat held by Senator Susan Collins and the open North Carolina seat as their best ...

Des Moines School Board Chair Jackie Norris is the fourth Democrat to announce a 2026 campaign for U.S. Senate.

Sen. Joni Ernst’s statement, “We all are going to die,” might remind Iowans that on Aug. 31, 2020, Ernst accused doctors of falsely attributing deaths to COVID-19, which she claimed was to ...

Then it all got worse as Ernst bungled and then rebungled protests over the early stages of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, responding to complaints back home about the deadly effects of Medicaid ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Dozens of local advocates rallied outside Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ and Sen. Joni Ernst’s Davenport offices on Tuesday, delivering petitions opposing cuts to Medicaid ...

A group protested outside of U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst's Davenport office to object to proposed cuts to Medicaid as part of the budget reconciliation bill currently before the U.S. Senate.

Republican senators are increasingly on edge as whispers circulate that Iowa’s Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) may bow out before the 2026 Senate elections. Though she has taken early campaign steps ...

U.S. Sen. Ernst, who has not formally announced she is seeking reelection in 2026, brought in $723,000 in the second quarter, slightly more than two of the Democrats running to replace her ...

Once-ascending Iowa senator Joni Ernst has lost steam after getting bullied into backing Pete Hegseth and horribly mishandling protests over Medicaid cuts. Rumor has it she may just retire instead ...