Joni Ernst

Roger Marshall was going to be defeated in Kansas.

Joni Ernst was going to be defeated in Iowa.

Even in Texas, John Cornyn was tied with MJ Hager in 2020 at this very moment.

The only difference between 2020 and 2026 is that in 2020, Donald Trump was actually on the ballot and this time he's not.

The next day, Tillis announced his retirement.

Senator Joni Ernst faced dark money attacks after questioning Pete Hegseth's confirmation.

She capitulated and later announced she wouldn't seek re-election.

Representative Thomas Massey voted against the bill.

I was happy to see – Mike Waltz is a good friend of mine, and I was actually working with him at the time when he was a congressman to get folks out.

Tom Cotton was another one, Joni Ernst.

And Mike will say it to your face.

It's like there has been – This wound will never heal until there's consequences for those who caused it.

She was on the verge of beating John Cornyn.

Republicans were panicked, and Joni Ernst was running behind Theresa Greenfield in Iowa.

All of them, all these Republicans, they were either tied or behind the Democrats in 2020.

Tom Tillis won, Roger Marshall won, John Cornyn won, Joni Ernst won.

Now, here we are in 2026.

It's the same Senate class.

She was on the verge of beating John Cornyn.

Republicans were panicked, and Joni Ernst was running behind Teresa Greenfield in Iowa.

All of them, all these Republicans, they were either tied or behind the Democrats in 2020.

Tom Tillis won.

Roger Marshall won.

John Cornyn won.

Joni Ernst won.

Now, here we are in 2026.

The, the f-

The million dollars they spent in Joni Ernst's backyard to get Hegseth confirmed, they are paying the price for it.

He does not care about the House and Senate.

He's even made it clear.

I mean, they've said that Lanive, General Lanive, who he has put forward, doesn't have enough experience as a four-star.

And I have heard that Senator Ernst, who is a former military officer, she knew General George, who was fired for no reason.

Well, he is from her home state of Iowa.

And keeping him in place was a condition of the confirmation of Pete Hegseth, which she was very wary of because of the allegations against him of rape, by the way, among other things.

It seems like he wants to run the whole place." He also added Hegseth has, quote, "Lost my confidence." Ooh, burn.

Lost my confidence.

Joni Ernst, Republican from Iowa, also on the Armed Services Committee.

She's a former military officer.

He wrote the bill.

It was bipartisan with Senator Joni Ernst on the Investing in Vets Act, which became law.

It requires federal agencies to award at least 5% of their contracts to service disabled veteran-owned small businesses.

This is as conservative as you're going to get.

I'll vote for John Ossoff because of that.

He's also a critical infrastructure manufacturing feasibility act.

He did that with Joni Ernst and Lisa Blunt Rochester.

The bill examines whether critical infrastructure components currently imported from overseas could instead be manufactured in America instead of buying it from China.