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Chasstev365

(8,131 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 03:50 PM Aug 2025

So Joni Ernst becomes the second incumbent Republican Senator to announce she is not running for reelection

It makes you wonder how bad the internal polling numbers are.
I expect to see others!

I think we have a chance at taking back the Senate!

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So Joni Ernst becomes the second incumbent Republican Senator to announce she is not running for reelection (Original Post) Chasstev365 Aug 2025 OP
Didn't Tuberville say he's going to run for governor? Nt Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #1
Thom Tillis was first obamanut2012 Aug 2025 #2
Right; Thanks! Chasstev365 Aug 2025 #3
**ck her and Tillis awesomerwb1 Aug 2025 #4
And then what? mahina Aug 2025 #5
Ernst n' Tubs LookoutMtnWriter Aug 2025 #6
Ernst n' Tubs rsdsharp Aug 2025 #9
Ernst & Tubbs: How can the Senate lose that collective BrainPower?? What can Ars Longa Aug 2025 #12
Ernst's internal polling in Iowa must be grim. Drey's recent special election win must have her scared. sop Aug 2025 #7
Declaring her voters are all going to die and then mocking them from a graveyard Johonny Aug 2025 #8
Not a prediction, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sen. Susan Collins called it a day Ars Longa Aug 2025 #10
We've gotta take both houses of Congress or America is finished!! OrlandoDem2 Aug 2025 #11
6. Ernst n' Tubs
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 04:14 PM
Aug 2025

Not sure how the Senate will survive after losing these two intellectual giants. Tubs will probably win the governorship in Alabama, though. He will certainly be closer to his residence on the beach in the Florida panhandle. He claims that he lives in Alabama based on a duplex he owns in Auburn. Believe his son lives there.

sop

(19,326 posts)
7. Ernst's internal polling in Iowa must be grim. Drey's recent special election win must have her scared.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 04:29 PM
Aug 2025

Johonny

(26,618 posts)
8. Declaring her voters are all going to die and then mocking them from a graveyard
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 04:29 PM
Aug 2025

probably was not the best idea.

Ars Longa

(576 posts)
10. Not a prediction, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sen. Susan Collins called it a day
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 04:59 PM
Aug 2025

in the near-mid future.
The blowback at her latest ribbon cutting event was very "Concerning"
I Dare say even ....................."Troubling"

OrlandoDem2

(3,243 posts)
11. We've gotta take both houses of Congress or America is finished!!
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 05:04 PM
Aug 2025

If the GOP wins in 2026 you can turn out the lights and America deserves whatever it gets.

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