IA-SEN 2020: Ernst megathread

[Oryxslayer]

Please be announcing you won't contest IA-sen.

[Oryxslayer]

People urging him not to run who else do you suggest?

Abby Finkenauer.

[Oryxslayer]

DMR will be releasing a poll done by Selzer this weekend: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2020/06/12/iowa-poll-test-iowans-feelings-u-s-senate-race-the-trump-vs-biden-match-up-race-relations-and-other/5346014002/, Selzer and DMR are highly regarded in Iowa, so this poll should give us an accurate standing of where the race stands. If I had to guess I'd say Ernst+4 to 5. But, this should give us a sign of the race in Iowa is actually tightening or if it is statistical noise.

The Iowa Poll will almost certainly rebuke all those crappy Polls from PPP and their leftist cohorts!

oops.

[Oryxslayer]

Confirmation that Ernst is losing right now. Also, SIX debates? Is she on crack?

https://twitter.com/joniernst/status/1275041290120572929

She did pretty well with the debates in 2014, but her real goal will probably be fishing for ad content in each debate

Its a well documented phenomenon that the candidate who's behind or is expected to have a tough race asks for more and more debates. Not many people really watch local debates, besides those that have already established partisan loyalties. Instead, the point of multiple debates is to seek a gotcha moment that can then make the main local news networks which people actually watch. A good recent example is Ayotte and her mishandling of the Trump issue in 2016.