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madville

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6. Will be an uphill fight

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2025, 10:08 PM

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Looks like a good candidate though. Ernst only won 2020 by 6% but Grassley won 2022 by 13% and Trump won the state last year by 12%. Ernst has always underperformed Grassley so I’d estimate her built in advantage at around 7-8% right now, not impossible to overcome.

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