Stephen Gruber-Miller

That's right.

I will give credit to Stephen Gruber-Miller of The Register, who the ...

When I tried to break out that line with him, he goes, "Yeah, and you're burning just as many calories a day as those NFL players are, right?" I was like, "Yeah, yeah.

All right."

President Trump, remember, won it by 13 points in 2024, but in just the last 10 days, three vulnerable Hawkeye State Republicans broke publicly with the president on the war in Iran.

I wanna bring in someone tapped into Iowa politics at the most granular level, Stephen Gruber-Miller of the Des Moines Register.

Stephen, I really appreciate your time here.

This was one of those things where it happened in rapid succession, and I should note, Chuck Grassley, not running currently, Not up for reelection, but kind of led the way with his own tweet, which leads to a lot of people wondering like, oh, what were they seeing? Was there something in their internals? I would just point people to diesel prices.

I think they tie into larger themes in the race.

And so actually, I think you've chosen two good ads that sort of highlight some of these things.

The Epstein connection, I think, is part of the argument that Democrats are making more broadly, not just in Iowa, but elsewhere as well, about corruption, this being an election about someone who they want to say is out for themselves and not for So I think there's a connection there that ties in in that way.

And I will say Ashley Hinson did vote with the majority of Congress for the Epstein Files Transparency Act last year.