Steve King has lost

[Hawaii Hiker]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/02/steve-king-loses-primary/

[SoonerPride]

1. Hahahahaha

[Hawaii Hiker]

2. Ha HA &

[Ninga]

7. Ditto on your hahaha's!!!!!!!!

[dflprincess]

34. What more is there to say?

[Skittles]

3. !!!

[gademocrat7]

4. One racist out of office.

More to vote out.

[Brainfodder]

5. An early gift!

[highplainsdem]

6. Good riddance!

[jimlup]

8. Yah! He'll probably run as an independent...

The normal rules don't apply anymore.... don't count it just yet.

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

15. I hope he does

split the republican vote in November.....dont give up Steve!!!!

[sandensea]

41. Long live the Freedom Party!

Their symbol, can be a cantaloupe.

[FM123]

9. One down! More to go....

[Goodheart]

10. I'm devastated.

[chillfactor]

11. !!!!!

[Delarage]

12. I'm glad

But I just watched a Feenstra ad (to see who he was). Wingnut claiming "Trump needs conservatives to pass his agenda" (build the wall, defend guns, blah blah). King is a pig but it would be great for a Democrat to take that district. That being said, it would be hard for Feenstra to be worse.

[sheshe2]

13. Ah Steve....

we hardly knew thee.

[alittlelark]

14. Cooooool !

[Demovictory9]

16. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[niyad]

17. Ohhhh, geeeee.

[Hulk]

18. Too bad....would have been nice to beat him in the general.

Now with another phony, lying piece of shit GOPutin tool, he'll say all the "right things" and get elected in that red district.

[sfstaxprep]

28. Yeah, But It's A Red District

I'm just glad that POS is gone.

[BlueTsunami2018]

19. Who beat him? Better or worse?

I know it’s hard to be worse than he but this is Тяцмр’s GOP. It’s far from impossible.

[ToxMarz]

40. I think he may be worse

Every ad starts with the fact he's a christian, them all he talks about it stopping abortion, brags he wrote the defining life at conception, wants to ban sactuary cities, he get trumps wall built... All the hot button issues, and nothing else. And he doesn't have the clowns baggage to weigh him down.


Example:

"Delivering For the Unborn. I was born and raised in a strong Christian family and faith is at the center of my family, my work and my public service. I'm a true Christian conservative and that's why I've been a leading voice for defending life in the State Senate"

[Ex Lurker]

52. Same platform as King without the baggage nt

[JI7]

54. how is that worse than King ? Doesn't King support that also ?

[Mr.Bill]

20. Trump's next

Chief of Staff.

[Celerity]

21. I think it might be a quick call, as King has surged in the past 5 minutes

he was down 5000, now like 1500

granted I do not know what remains to be counted

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/02/us/elections/results-iowa-new-mexico-pennsylvania-primaries.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-elections-2020&variant=show&region=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu

[Celerity]

24. down to 1100 now

[Celerity]

31. lead under 1000 now

[Celerity]

35. down to a little over 900

[Celerity]

37. there must be a shedload of votes for Feenstra not counted by the NYT, that is all I can think

[Celerity]

38. yep, lead back up to 2300, it is over

[Celerity]

39. lol, they pumped a tonne out, hot off the printer

[rpannier]

47. State Republican Party has said King lost

[Celerity]

48. I know, look at my thread nt

[onenote]

22. He's only 1500 votes down with 150 precincts still to report

Crossing my fingers but not celebrating quite yet.

[Celerity]

25. 1100 now, eeeek

[Initech]

23. Ha ha!!!!!!!

[JT45242]

26. Bad for the general election

He may finally have been beatable in the general election.

A normal Republican will almost certainly win the general election.

I am glad he lost, but it would have been better if he narrowly won his primary to get trounced in the general election.

[Celerity]

27. +100000

[rpannier]

49. Very true and I thought about that

But there is always the likelihood that they'd have voted for King in the GE anyway.
Best he is gone

[progressoid]

55. Yep. JD Scholten is a great Democratic candidate but his work just got harder.

[rsdsharp]

29. I think this is premature.

With 70% of the vote counted, he trails Feenstra by 2%.

[Renew Deal]

30. Is the new person more crazy or slightly less?

[Blue_true]

42. Just as rightwing, not as loose-lipped. Areal Trump, evangelical ass-licker. nt

[Renew Deal]

45. Pretty much what was expected.

[aeromanKC]

32. Cantaloupe for breakfast!!!

Saving the champagne for November!!!

[Cha]

33. Randy Feenstra beat him.. finally I figured it out.

[ffr]

36. Hey, hey...

[roamer65]

44. THIS.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

46. KR NT

[Blue_playwright]

50. I am so happy!

[DesertRat]

51. Bye Felicia!

May the same fate befall the Racist in Chief.

[Mfc90125]

53. A Great Day for Democrats

King’s exit paves the way for an even more racist Trump supporter, which means that person is guaranteed to get even less of the popular vote come November. This will allow a good, decent, centrist Democrat to swoop in and take all the middle votes and perhaps some of the right-leaners. We could see an upset in Iowa if DNC can find someone who can tick those and a few more boxes.

[progressoid]

56. This is not really that great of a thing for us. Feenstra is going to be harder to beat.

While we all hate King, he was likely the easiest Repub to beat. A lot of right leaning independents would have stayed home rather than vote for King again. He was poison. Now they will happily vote for Feenstra. Plus the 4th district has a ton of die hard republicans. They will come out in droves for Feenstra.