State Senator Carlin To Run For Grassley’s US Senate Seat

KIWA Radio ^ | February 14, 2021

[justlittleoleme]

Sioux City, Iowa — Republican State Senator James Carlin of Sioux City delivered a speech Monday morning to kick off his campaign for the U.S. Senate seat Republican Chuck Grassley holds.

Carlin did not mention Grassley’s name, but Carlin said Grassley and others in congress failed Americans by certifying Joe Biden as the Electoral College winner without first investigating President Trump’s allegations of election fraud.

[nonliberal]

He has my vote.

[Magnum44]

Mine too, and I dont even live in his state (but thats ok now, right?)

[cotton1706]

Grassley was elected in Reagan’s 1980 landslide, so he’ll likely be retiring anyway.

[napscoordinator]

Grassley hasn’t decided to retire yet.

[tennmountainman]

Then retire him

[nonliberal]

And you’re alive so that’s double the problem.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Get rid of the fossils or the GOP goes the way of the Whigs.

[z3n]

"...without first investigating President Trump’s allegations of election fraud."

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Election fraud? White Supremacist alert!!!

[DIRTYSECRET]

Too old, too unattractive and not deferential to swamp.

[FreeReign]

...Carlin said Grassley and others in congress failed Americans by certifying Joe Biden as the Electoral College winner without first investigating President Trump’s allegations of election fraud.

And just like that he's got my support.

[napscoordinator]

Hopefully he will announce he’s retiring. He has plenty of time to do so. A year!

[DoodleDawg]

Grassley was elected in Reagan’s 1980 landslide, so he’ll likely be retiring anyway.

He's apparently told friends he's running.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Dr. Franklin]

He's apparently told friends he's running.

Hey, if Biden can hide in his basement with dementia and be declared president in an illegal election, Grassley, Feinstein and every other corrupt, senile Swamp Creature can dream too, right?

[MplsSteve]

“Grassley was elected in Reagan’s 1980 landslide...”

Prior to being elected to the Senate in ‘80, he was in the US House from ‘74 to ‘80.

Prior to being in the US House, he was a member of the Iowa Legislature from ‘59 to ‘74.

NO ONE regardless of whether there’s an R or D after their name should be holding office for that long.

[Night Hides Not]

That was the one thing the Founding Fathers missed on: term limits. I don't blame them, though. It's not their fault that they couldn't see the invention of central air conditioning, which made DC livable during the summer.

Up until the 1920s, Congress got its business done, usually by mid-May, then departed for home. If you've been to DC during the summer, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Texas summers are hot, but they aren't miserable like DC.

[Iscool]

Mine too, and I dont even live in his state (but thats ok now, right?)

I don't live there either but under the current circumstances maybe I can vote for him anyway...

[sphinx]

Chuck Grassley has been a good senator for a long time. Not perfect, but better than most. He's 87. There is one and only one reason that would justify an old warhorse like Grassley running again. That is if he is the only person with a plausible chance of holding the seat for the GOP. A lot of old timers get talked into one or two too many runs for precisely that reason -- Dick Lugar comes to mind -- and while the short term calculation is understandable, it often comes back to bite us in the long run. 2022 has a better than average chance of being a better than average Republican year, and Iowa should be able to elect a competent conservative in a normal year. Grassley should bow out.

The biggest risk of losing that seat for the GOP is a declining Grassley doing something to make himself a joke on the campaign trail. The second biggest risk is for the party to fracture a dozen ways as everyone with more than ten supporters jumps at the chance to run in a presumptively favorable year. The GOP has a long and sad record of splinter factions winning in a badly divided field, with a disastrous fringe candidate as the result. That has cost us control of the Senate more than once in the last generation.