The Republican Iowa Senator says that Medicaid sounds do not worry because “we will all die.” Voters seem to disagree.
Senator Johnny Ernst (R -I) comes to a hearing for confirmation of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.
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US spokesman Mark Pakan, Democrat Wisconsin, who has been widely recognized by strategists in both parties as one of the most politically savvy members of the Congress, has been saying that the way to raise control over the house and the Senate, which allows his conservative colleagues to disclose his own cruelty. “If they appear at real city gatherings that are not very common, they can’t help themselves. They are condescending and they say incredibly unrelated,” explains a former progressed caretaker, who has been working with grassroots since February to February to be pressure Representatives of Republicans and senators hold meetings of the town hall.
The Packet does not try to capture Republicans in unfair circumstances. He just wants them to be. Why? Since Pokan claims, if voters testify to the obvious disorder and the Republican Congress, they will doubt whether their representatives of GoP and the senators will be on their side. And if the violating Republican Congress members adhere to their cruelty, with brazen justifications for the statements, it will finally open up a discussion that the US should have a GoP strategy to grind the security network to finance the billionaire tax reduction. Can such a discussion affect the 2026 intermediate elections? Can it defeat toxic Republicans to turn control over the US House? And potentially the Senate? “Of course,” he says. “If they continue to protect things such as Medicaid Cuts, they are going to defeat themselves.”
Last week there was a test case for this theory. Famous Republicans, acknowledging the threat that their own words and affairs present their prospects for re -election, sought to avoid traditional urban meetings. For the most part, they prefer not to face busy voters who can, and often do, ask tough questions. But Johnny Ernst Senator, Johnni Ernst, decided to take a settlement risk in the overwhelming Republican Batler district in the North Central Iowa. As it happened, the wildly ridiculous remarks of Ernst from the session are immediately viral – in Iowa, and then at the national level. Senator GOP casual dismissal A sincere problem about reducing Medicaid has caused jaw. Unsuccessful just lying to voters muddy Interviewed test points GOP– “We do not need to see illegal immigrants who receive benefits,” “We’re going to focus on those most vulnerable” – and mocked her voters for delight loss of rescue assistance, telling them that they are, that All are “going to die” anyway.
Ernst’s comments attracted instant reproaches from the Democrats and headlines in Iowa media. Suddenly, the republican disgust for city meetings seemed to make much more meaning. However, there was a prospect that the senator could have cleared the mess she made sincere album, at least, seemingly sincere-expression of regret for bad words.
Ernst delivered something else.
Senator added an insult to the injury by taking off Video of “apology” What looked like in the cemetery, and assuming that the os who were confused about the well -documented GOP threat for the social security network, were simple that are still waiting for teeth visits.
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What happened in the Batler district was not left in the Batlin district. This table Talks about IOV, A state where local and national Republicans expected Ernst to be re -elected in 2026. And this caught the Democrats’ attention far beyond the Iowa, which acknowledged that the list of states with competitive Senate races could simply expand.
Here was the chief republican who revealed the reality that, in their head hastily, cut taxes for billionaires who finance their companies, Trump’s allies could not care about who was injured. “Now Republicans said a quiet part aloud,” “,” ” observe Minority leader Hockey JeffRis (D-NY). “Extremists take your medical care. And they don’t care when people die.” On the land in Iowa State Senator Zak Wals thought, “Yes, Johnny, we will all die, but we should not be our senators who kill us.”
The most devastating response came from Ernst Senator Tina Smith’s colleague from the neighboring state of Minnesota. Smith posted a video with a tonal statement by Aion and wrote, “I thought my work as a senator was to try to keep my voters alive.”
This significant prerequisite – that senators should be enthusiastic about the people they have chosen, has entered the American political sensitivity. It goes deep, especially when it comes to maintaining Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. So deep that it has the potential for creating real political troubles for politicians, which, like Ernst, show open concrivation to the justified fears of the voters at home.
It does not guarantee that ernst, Favorite Committees for corporate political actions and wealthy conservative donors working in a state, where in recent years the Republicans have been losing a winning series in 2026. But that means it is now more vulnerable than a few weeks ago.
After the crisis last week Nathan Sage, veteran of the Iraq war and the popular Iowa sportsman who was the first Democrat to become the first Democrat challenge the acting chapterHe announced: “Senator Johnny Ernst came into it – and we can defeat it.” Last weekend, Seage was invited to appear on national cable television programs to remove the existing one. By Monday, the Second Democrat, the State Representative JD Scholten, entered the race against Ernst. “After her comments over the weekend … I just said: This is unacceptable, and you have to jump,” – Scholten, a former candidate for a Congress with a high name in Western Iowa, detach a Sioux City Journal. “I don’t think there’s something worse you could do than cut Medicaid, cut Snap (additional nutrition assistance) for everyday iowans so you can give billionaires big tax benefits. This is not an Iowa in my head.”
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Drawing on the subject, Sholten claims that “we don’t need to die to get billionaires to get additional tax benefits.”
Suddenly there were national democrats speculation The Ernst, one of the most popular Republican political careers in Washington, could give them a fresh route – through the Heartland state, which twice voted for Donald Trump, but who used the populist Tom Kharkina in Washington – to create a democratic majority in the 2026 election cycle.
The Iowa Democratic Party simply posted the images of the main page of the most common Iowa newspaper after Friday’s Ernst.
That had political meaning because Register the monks title was more politically devastating than any democratic meme.
How so? If you are running for re -election in the Senate, there are good headlines and there are bad headlines. And then there are those rare nightmare headlines that invite your voters to ask: How quickly can we replace this wrong?
Ernst inspired the title of nightmare; First Saturday page Log specified A common photo The Senator from the Block Litarian retells her reaction to the Glib to expose the problem that “people will die” because of the GOP attack on Medicaid. “Well,” read Ernst’s title quote, “we will all die.”
At the critical stage in the national political debate, Ernst exposed for a democratic argument that soulless Republicans intend to cause more than $ 500 billion to automatically reduce Medicare to finance tax reduction for the billionaire class – regardless of the consequences for workers.
Then Ernst doubled to the offense by placing a terrible apologyIn which she was wary: “I made the wrong assumption that everyone in the assembly hall realized that yes, we all died from this land. So, I apologize. And I am very glad I didn’t need to raise the theme of the tooth.” Ernst sarcasm was part of a scheme of awkward expression and actions that began with a packed -out urban meeting and came out of control. In combination, argued competitor Nathan Sage, they gave signal For voters who determine the political future of Ernst, that “she does not talk about John.”
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