BREAKING: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say.

[In It to Win It]

BREAKING: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say.

— CBS News (@cbsnews.com) 2025-08-29T15:30:34.278Z

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Everybody's political career dies

Especially when it’s helped along with self-inflicted wounds.

[Traildogbob]

2. She read the room.

Rest not, in peace political corpse.
Hope she feels pain for all the hell she spread to her constituents, that also splattered onto us all.

[Totally Tunsie]

3. Maybe, just maybe, we'll see a crop of repugs

just reach the point of "I don't need this crap anymore", and they too will back out.

Susan Collins, are you listening?

[GB_RN]

16. Senator Concern...

Needs to GTFO, RTFN.

[barbtries]

19. thom tillis did. NC

Here, there is an actual chance that a Democrat will win that seat. republicans of course will do anything to hang on to it, but there is some hope.

[newdeal2]

4. Not sufficiently MAGA?

Well at least the GOP has to spend some more money defending this seat.

[UpInArms]

5. The pig fukker is leaving?

I despise her so much

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. She can go back to castrating pigs

Or maybe not, since she's made enough money in Congress.

[Zorro]

7. She's done her damage

Now it's time to go home.

[beaglelover]

8. She'll just be replaced by another repuke. Probably more rabid and deranged. Happy days.

[BoRaGard]

9. She's going to die eventually anyway

so why not?

The nation now enters into pre-mourning with some snazzy memorial bread wrappers taking the top fashion spot all across the fruited plains.

[Ray Bruns]

11. That is hilarious!

[kimbutgar]

10. Her words would be the best weapon against her in her re election bid

Just play ads hearing her say that heartless comment and ask does she really care about you and your family?

[hildegaard28]

26. That needs

To be done with every Republican. Just look at Texas. They called a special session to help the flood victims, but instead they launched an extremist power grab to keep themselves in power. The flood victims still have no help.

[popsdenver]

12. She will never occupy

a place in the 1% doing that.......

(In my opinion, there are a large number of States, that would be best used as giant hazardous waste, and nuclear waste disposal sites)

[ShazzieB]

13. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

[djacq]

14. Bye Felicia!

[EnergizedLib]

15. 'Well, we're all going to die'

Such a meaningful and inspirational message…

[barbtries]

17. oh well.

Maybe a Democrat can win what with the republicans fucking up every single thing as they are.

[Joinfortmill]

18. Good riddance.

[swong19104]

20. She would have to run against

the paralympian dude who carries his own wheelchair up steps to meet prospective constituents?

Yeah, she’d have a tough campaign for sure.

[tanyev]

21. Just taking her bread bags and going home, huh?

See ya! 👋

[58Sunliner]

22. I hate to say it, but I truly wish her hell.

Horrible person.

[MLWR]

23. Good riddance.

"We all have to die" and all careers come to an end.

[Wiz Imp]

24. Definitely a pickup opportunity for the Democrats here

Democrats have flipped 2 state Senate seats in Iowa this year with vote swings of over 20%. Ernst won in 2020 by just about 6.5%. And the Republican Governor is the least popular Governor in he country.

https://littlevillagemag.com/poll-kim-reynolds-remains-americas-most-unpopular-governor/

Poll: Kim Reynolds remains America’s most unpopular governor
by Paul Brennan
Jul 17, 2025

Gov. Kim Reynolds remains the most unpopular governor in America, according to the latest poll by Morning Consult. Reynolds is once again the only governor whose disapproval rating is higher than their approval rating in the opinion research firm’s quarterly survey of the approval ratings of governors.

Reynolds has ranked the least popular governor in every Morning Consult tracking poll for over two years.

“Reynolds is still the most unpopular: With the highest disapproval rating of any U.S. governor (49%), Kim Reynolds of Iowa remains America’s most unpopular governor for the sixth quarter in a row,” Morning Consult said an summary of the poll findings. “The Republican, who announced in April that she will not seek re-election next year, is the only governor with a net negative approval rating.”

Reynolds’ decision not to run for reelection, which she announced in early April, did nothing to improve her standing in the poll of Iowans. Her disapproval rating in the previous Morning Consult poll was also 49 percent.

[3catwoman3]

25. She's 55. In 5 years, she'll collect her military retirement...

...from her reserve career, and at 62, her senate retirement benefits.

She has taken good care of herself. Her constituents, not so much.

[Eddie18]

27. Bye bitch

We're all going to vanish sometime