IA-SEN 2020: Ernst megathread

[MAINEiac4434]

It depends on if she wants to keep her married name.

I doubt she wants to

She might keep it for strategic reasons, not wanting to confuse voters.

[MAINEiac4434]

It depends on if she wants to keep her married name.

I doubt she wants to

She might keep it for strategic reasons, not wanting to confuse voters.

I agree, it’s her professional name. Most likely she keeps it until she remarries and takes her new husband’s name.

Or if she doesn't remarry, she returns to using her maiden name after the 2020 election.

[MAINEiac4434]

The husband is retaliating with claims of infidelity on the part of Joni:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6619997/Husband-Iowa-Senator-Joni-Ernst-claims-affair-soldier.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

Obviously if she had infidelity that's very bad and her fault but this complaint from her husband sounds ridiculous:

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It's his wife. As long as no one else was present, why is he complaining? Not that I have a desire to see Joni Ernst naked of course, but he is married to her.

I presume both are born again evangelicals so I guess is a big thing also would explain the husband not being supportive of her political career. Evangelicals are big on the whole women being at home concept.

Let me ask you this- how many Evangelicals do you know?  I go to an Evangelical church and hang out in Evangelical circles and have never once heard this expectation.

Tbqh, the only Evangelicals I know (it's New England after all) are the neighbor family. The wife is staying with the husband as he continues to serve out his term at a federal prison for child pornography distribution (out in March). Her parents even paid for his lawyer and pressured her not to leave him.