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BumRushDaShow

(160,228 posts)
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 08:25 PM Aug 27

Joni Ernst Issued Warning After Democrats Flip Iowa Seat

Source: Newsweek

Published Aug 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM EDT


A Democrat challenging Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican, has sent a message after his party flipped a state Senate seat. "We are going to flip this U.S. Senate seat the exact same way that Catelin Drey flipped her state Senate seat," Iowa State Senator Zach Wahls said in a video posted on X on Tuesday. Newsweek contacted Wahls and Ernst for comment via emails sent outside regular business hours.

Why It Matters

Drey beat Republican Christopher Prosch by more than 10 points to represent Iowa's 1st Senate district, according to preliminary results posted by county officials. The district primarily consists of Woodbury County, which Republican President Donald Trump had carried by double digits in the 2024 election.

The result is the latest in a series of Democratic wins in special elections this year that are driving optimism about the party's chances heading into the 2026 midterm elections.

What To Know

In the video, Wahls said Drey's victory "is going to have profound impacts for our state for many years to come." Her win means Democrats hold 17 seats in the 50-member state Senate, enough to break the supermajority the GOP has had since the 2022 election. Wahls also said it was the fourth special election in Iowa where Democrats "have put up 20-plus point overperformances, which tells you that this state is in play."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/joni-ernst-warning-democrats-flip-iowa-seat-2120006

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Joni Ernst Issued Warning After Democrats Flip Iowa Seat (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 27 OP
We are all gonna die someday Traildogbob Aug 27 #1
To Parphrase Scrooge... 3825-87867 Aug 27 #2
Hey Joni? sheshe2 Aug 27 #3
Yep! We are all gonna DIE. BidenRocks Aug 27 #4
Does anyone else think the title of this posting is incorrect? ... aggiesal Aug 27 #5
Thank you! Was about to post the same! niyad Aug 27 #7
Some totally mis-represent popsdenver Aug 27 #9
That was the actual "newsweek" title. niyad Aug 27 #11
so include them popsdenver Aug 27 #14
Agreed. "Given Warning" or "Receives Warning" would be clearer. CaptainTruth Aug 27 #10
Silly us, expecting so-called "journalists" to actually know grammar. niyad Aug 27 #13
while journalists can sometimes write their own headline i think it is usually written by copy editors nt orleans Aug 27 #15
It does not matter. They are all working for supposed "news" organizations. niyad Aug 27 #16
LBN requires using the actual title of an article BumRushDaShow Aug 28 #17
It was a bad headline, open to misinterpretation ... aggiesal Aug 28 #18
There is definitely a need for better headline writers BumRushDaShow Aug 28 #21
Indeed quakerboy Aug 28 #23
She probably is not running Strelnikov_ Aug 27 #6
Why do you say that? niyad Aug 27 #8
And their take from it durablend Aug 27 #12
A positive leading indicator. Torchlight Aug 28 #19
Get bent, ya bread-bag hag Blue Owl Aug 28 #20
I have always resented Iowa's prominence in the early Presidential nominee... NNadir Aug 28 #22

3825-87867

(1,590 posts)
2. To Parphrase Scrooge...
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 08:37 PM
Aug 27

"If Joni will die, she had better do it and decrease the deficit and excess tariffs."

T'would benefit us all! More so if many Republicans would follow her.

aggiesal

(10,320 posts)
5. Does anyone else think the title of this posting is incorrect? ...
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 08:57 PM
Aug 27

It states that Joni Ernst Issued Warning After Democrats Flip Iowa Seat.

This to me reads like Joni Ernst issued a warning after Democrats flip Iowa Seat.
Not that Joni Erst was issued a warning, by her opponent, after Democrats flip Iowa Seat.

Anyway, that's how I read it.

niyad

(127,254 posts)
13. Silly us, expecting so-called "journalists" to actually know grammar.
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 09:33 PM
Aug 27

I actually had the news manager at one of our local stations tell me that proper grammar was for English teachers, not needed by reporters,when I had been expressng my displeasure at their appalling grammar. He was lucky that he was on the phone, and not standing in front of me. He was replaced a short time later.

orleans

(36,418 posts)
15. while journalists can sometimes write their own headline i think it is usually written by copy editors nt
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:01 PM
Aug 27

niyad

(127,254 posts)
16. It does not matter. They are all working for supposed "news" organizations.
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:10 PM
Aug 27

One would think that the minimum, most basic requirement, would be familiarity with one's language, grammar, etc. I am noticing the same thing in novels. Apparently publishing houses no longer employ copy editors.

BumRushDaShow

(160,228 posts)
17. LBN requires using the actual title of an article
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 04:49 AM
Aug 28


If it said -

"Joni Ernst ISSUES a warning after Democrats flip Iowa Seat"


(versus ISSUED), which was the headline) then maybe your "interpretation" might be valid.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

aggiesal

(10,320 posts)
18. It was a bad headline, open to misinterpretation ...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:34 AM
Aug 28

Apparently I wasn't the only one that interpreted it that way.
Using "issued" is past tense, like she had issued a warning
The simple word "was" before "issued" & "a" after, would have been much clearer.
Joni Ernst WAS Issued A Warning After Democrats Flip Iowa Seat

BumRushDaShow

(160,228 posts)
21. There is definitely a need for better headline writers
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:26 PM
Aug 28

but not just for this publication. They tend to keep it short and sweet (although alternately, sites that I use like "Law & Crime" can go hog wild, where the full headline won't fit in the OP Title field).

And based on the timing of when this "warning" apparently happened, which was BEFORE the article was written, i.e., "in the past" (and not "real time" or "live" ), then putting the headline in the past tense as something that had already happened, is obviously more accurate.

"Issued" is a verb and "was" is also a verb so together they comprise what is dubbed a "verb phrase" (where the "was" is considered a "helper" ). So for headlines, both are not necessarily needed because "issued" is already past tense, and for the grammarians, probably something they could go on and on about.

quakerboy

(14,544 posts)
23. Indeed
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:00 PM
Aug 28

Joni isnt too worried, she knows Trump has no intention of letting voters decide the next election.

Torchlight

(5,695 posts)
19. A positive leading indicator.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:50 AM
Aug 28

A Dem winning by more than 10 points that district may (or may not) point to a very dramatic autumn next year.

NNadir

(36,592 posts)
22. I have always resented Iowa's prominence in the early Presidential nominee...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:36 PM
Aug 28

...selection process given that it's a state that can elect shitheads like Grassley and Ernst, sad impersonations of genuine human beings.

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