IA-SEN: Iowa Republican announces Senate bid with Grassley's 2022 plans unclear

[RandySF]

Iowa Republican state Sen. Jim Carlin launched his campaign to replace Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), whose plans for the 2022 election remain unclear.

Carlin, a trial lawyer and Army veteran, became the first candidate from either party to announce his bid for the seat, without waiting for Grassley, 87, to make a decision about his future in the Senate, the Des Moines Register reported.

"I appreciate (Grassley's) service, as anybody does," Carlin told the newspaper. "But I didn't get in the race to drop out."

The 54-year-old presented himself as an ally to former President Trump during his first speech and targeted “the political class” for not looking into and holding hearings on the unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.

"Right now, we face mammoth challenges from China, the disintegration of families, the decline of rural Iowa and the threat to free speech from big tech monopolies," he said, according to the Register. "... I see some of these things as an assault on our freedom."




https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/538908-iowa-republican-announces-senate-bid-while-grassleys-2022-plans-unclear

[msongs]

1. sounds Q all the way. we don't need more trial lawyers nt

[Gregory Peccary]

3. Yep

He covered all the greatest hits in one sentence.

[bullwinkle428]

9. I literally said "a laundry list of Q dog-whistles"!

[world wide wally]

2. Another loser from Iowa

[hlthe2b]

4. Well, given Grassley's recent tweets, I think he's more than lost a few steps...

I hope there is some sane person that will run, even if Iowa electing a DEM is a steep steep climb.

[Bettie]

12. There are few sane Republicans in Iowa

anymore.

I want out so badly.

[demosincebirth]

5. Why would anyone stay in the senate until they're eighty seven?

I retired at fifty nine...eighty two, now, and never looked back.

[rsdsharp]

6. As recently as December 20th he said he has no plans to retire.

That means if he runs, and is re-elected, and serves out his term he would be 95. What is more likely if Covid Kim Reynolds is re-elected in 2022, and Grassley is as well, he’ll resign if she agrees to appoint his grandson Patrick, the current Iowa Speaker of the House.

[demosincebirth]

7. If he does he'll die in office.

[Bettie]

13. Pat Grassley is even more awful than

grandpappy....just freaking awful.

[rsdsharp]

15. Agreed.

[exboyfil]

8. As a Iowan I wish a moderate Republican who denounces Trump

would get into the race. If that is the case, I would encourage Democrats to change their party affiliation and vote for that candidate. Grassley has firmly bound himself to Trump, and this tool is a mini-me Trumper. I hate being represented by anyone who has bound themselves to Trump. That includes my Representative Hinson who I hope gets a moderate anti-Trumper as a challenger as well.

[Celerity]

10. He is 58yo, so typically sloppy reporting by The Hill

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carlin_(politician)

(born October 19, 1962)

The 54-year-old presented himself

[edhopper]

11. Great

another Q in the Senate. Him and Ernst. What a team.

[greenjar_01]

14. I wouldn't sink a lot of money into Iowa, which seems very much a lost cause

How a state that went for Al Gore and Obama 08 has gone so sideways is a mystery for poli-sci dissertations.

[DFW]

16. This is why I hope Rob Sand considers running

He‘s from a very rural part of the state, clean cut, successful family man type of midwestern Democrat against whom Republicans would have a hard time making their usual epithets stick. Rob connects with people in rural Iowa because he‘s one of them.