Endorsements, Part One
While Donald Trump was in Des Moines Saturday, he was poised to hand out a couple of endorsements for the 2022 election season. He wound up only giving out one of them…more on that tomorrow.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley was called back to the stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds during the two-hour-long Trump address to receive the nod from the president. That no doubt was not good news for the candidate running against Grassley in the GOP primary next June, state senator Jim Carlin of Sioux City, who was also apparently in attendance.
Trump has been blessing a variety of candidates in upcoming primaries, some of which are far more hotly contested than the Iowa race seems to be.
The language from Democrats surrounding Trump’s visit and anything connected with it continues to be shrill. Former congresswoman Abby Finkenauer, one of four declared candidates for the Democrat nomination for Senate, sent out two news releases during the event, both using the phrase “D.C. Politician Chuck Grassley”. In the later one, after the endorsement, she called Grassley’s remarks at the event “pathetic” and said, “Chuck Grassley is just another Washington politician who has screwed over Iowans…Chuck Grassley went crawling back to Donald Trump because he knows he’s vulnerable.”
Given Grassley’s poll numbers against her, in a poll sponsored by the liberal newspaper in Des Moines, it would hardly appear he’s vulnerable at this point, but it’s early.
All that noise notwithstanding, Grassley’s receipt of the endorsement seemed a bit understated. We’ll pick up on that point tomorrow.
