The Republicans hoping to defeat white supremacist Rep. Steve King in Tuesday’s primary in Iowa all have similar arguments for why King doesn’t deserve a tenth term in Congress.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a handful of Republican members of the House, GOP operative Karl Rove, and an assortment of conservative groups and PACs have banded together to end King’s two-decade congressional career and install their preferred primary challenger, Randy Feenstra, a former state senator.
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Iowa Rep. Steve King is possibly the weakest he’s ever been as a candidate, but the influx of GOP money to his primary opponent isn’t necessarily part of some moral campaign to unseat a racist in Congress.
According to Pat Rynard, managing editor at the news site Iowa Starting Line, avoiding discussions of white supremacy in the GOP effort to oust King is part of a deliberate strategy.
“President Trump stopped allowing Steve King on Air Force One,” the narrator’s voice states, referring to an incident last year — a few months after King lost his committee seats — when the White House reportedly declined King’s request to fly with the president to a GOP fundraiser in Iowa.
