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Wed Oct 26, 2022, 07:08 PM

babylonsister (170,219 posts)

On The Brink Of Defeat, Chuck Grassley Seems Terrified That Trump Is Coming To Iowa

Make it so!!

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/10/26/chuck-grassley-trump-iowa.html

Posted on Wed, Oct 26th, 2022 by Jason Easley
On The Brink Of Defeat, Chuck Grassley Seems Terrified That Trump Is Coming To Iowa

Sen. Chuck Grassley (I-IA) is facing the closest election of his career, so he released a statement on Trump coming to Iowa that never mentioned Trump.

The statement is a political work of art in trying to avoid toxic Trump:

Link to tweet

Grassley’s statement is supposedly about Trump’s upcoming visit to Iowa, but the statement doesn’t mention when the Iowa event is, if Grassley will be appearing with Trump, what the Iowa event is about, and it never mentions Trump at all.

It is almost like Chuck Grassley doesn’t want voters in Iowa to know that Donald Trump is coming, and he definitely doesn’t want to have his name associated with Trump.

Grassley’s struggles with Iowa voters are nothing new. A 2021 poll found that 64% of Iowans wanted him gone.

In July of 2022, Grassley started polling under 50% for the first time since 1980.

Grassley is currently locked in a statistical tie with his Democratic challenger Mike Franken in what will be the closest election of the 89-year-old’s career.

Chuck Grassley is in real danger of losing his seat, and it speaks volumes about the degree of liability that Trump poses for Republican candidates two weeks before election day if an incumbent as entrenched as Sen. Grassley won’t mention the former president’s name in a statement.

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17 replies	Author	Time	Post
On The Brink Of Defeat, Chuck Grassley Seems Terrified That Trump Is Coming To Iowa (Original post)	babylonsister	Oct 2022	OP
Time for Gassley to go!	Meadowoak	Oct 2022	#1
Yes and LONG past time.	Golden Raisin	Oct 2022	#7
Grassley is about 9 years older than Pres Biden ......	Lovie777	Oct 2022	#2
and 9 years older than himself!	Layzeebeaver	Oct 2022	#10
Why does the Politicus piece show "Grassley (I-IA)"?	mobeau69	Oct 2022	#3
Incumbent	NoRethugFriends	Oct 2022	#5
Never saw that before.	mobeau69	Oct 2022	#6
When they say inflation	Mr.Bill	Oct 2022	#4
OMG I remember those Reagan years, pure hell. high inflation,	Meadowoak	Oct 2022	#8
Global inflation and dead pidgins ...	Hermit-The-Prog	Oct 2022	#9
"The border was secure"......	SergeStorms	Oct 2022	#11
At 89, why would you be afraid of losing an election?	PlanetBev	Oct 2022	#12
I hope Franken wins	Vogon_Glory	Oct 2022	#13
This message was self-deleted by its author	budkin	Oct 2022	#14
Gee. What a message of hope and cheer.	Hermit-The-Prog	Oct 2022	#15
polls	Celerity	Oct 2022	#16
So he's willing to sound like a fucking magat at 89 years old?	spanone	Oct 2022	#17

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Wed Oct 26, 2022, 07:13 PM

Meadowoak (4,337 posts)

1. Time for Gassley to go!

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Wed Oct 26, 2022, 09:15 PM

Golden Raisin (4,444 posts)

7. Yes and LONG past time.

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Wed Oct 26, 2022, 07:20 PM

Lovie777 (7,746 posts)

2. Grassley is about 9 years older than Pres Biden ......

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 02:44 PM

Layzeebeaver (1,229 posts)

10. and 9 years older than himself!

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Wed Oct 26, 2022, 07:24 PM

mobeau69 (9,955 posts)

3. Why does the Politicus piece show "Grassley (I-IA)"?

What’s up with that?

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Wed Oct 26, 2022, 07:47 PM

NoRethugFriends (1,052 posts)

5. Incumbent

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Wed Oct 26, 2022, 07:50 PM

mobeau69 (9,955 posts)

6. Never saw that before.

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Wed Oct 26, 2022, 07:29 PM

Mr.Bill (20,234 posts)

4. When they say inflation

is at a 40 year high, I wonder if they think about who was president 40 years ago.

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 12:48 AM

Meadowoak (4,337 posts)

8. OMG I remember those Reagan years, pure hell. high inflation,

high unemployment, 19% home mortgages. Trickle down economics.

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 01:16 AM

Hermit-The-Prog (27,266 posts)

9. Global inflation and dead pidgins ...

Grassley should spend his retirement taking care of dead pidgins.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/20/1979115/-What-the-hell-is-Chuck-Grassley-tweeting-about

Link to tweet

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 06:43 PM

SergeStorms (18,185 posts)

11. "The border was secure"......

No, the border wasn't secure. Trump just talked to his racist, xenophobic acolytes non-stop about it and they believed the border was secure.

All we heard from Trump was wall, wall, wall, wall, wall, wall and he put some children in cages for shock value. To MAGAts that meant the border was secure. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

I hope you go down in flames, Grassley!

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 06:47 PM

PlanetBev (4,029 posts)

12. At 89, why would you be afraid of losing an election?

Your life is coming to a close. You can’t take any of that power, control, money or fame with you.

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 09:01 PM

Vogon_Glory (8,697 posts)

13. I hope Franken wins

The trouble is that I have are memories from phone banking an election or two ago. The Iowans asked us Texas Dems to help and I was one of the phone bankers. What I discovered was that the Iowans I talked to thought of themselves as Democrats, but they liked Grassley too much to vote against him, even though he supported policies that were bad for them.

You can guess the result: Grassley was re-elected.

I hope Iowa voters get over that sort of thinking. You can still like a guy personally, but you aren’t obliged to keep him in office.

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 10:26 PM

Hermit-The-Prog (27,266 posts)

15. Gee. What a message of hope and cheer.

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 10:38 PM

Celerity (35,624 posts)

16. polls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_election_in_Iowa

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 10:41 PM

spanone (133,397 posts)

17. So he's willing to sound like a fucking magat at 89 years old?

fuck him

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