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

Traildogbob
(11,822 posts)3825-87867
(1,590 posts)"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.
sheshe2
(93,782 posts)
Bye, Gurl.
BidenRocks
(2,210 posts)After you *****!
aggiesal
(10,320 posts)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)popsdenver
(481 posts)with Click-Bait Titles too bad
niyad
(127,254 posts)popsdenver
(481 posts)CaptainTruth
(7,886 posts)niyad
(127,254 posts)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)niyad
(127,254 posts)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)
If it said -
(versus ISSUED), which was the headline) then maybe your "interpretation" might be valid.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
aggiesal
(10,320 posts)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)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.
Joni isnt too worried, she knows Trump has no intention of letting voters decide the next election.
Strelnikov_
(8,041 posts)Unfortunately.
niyad
(127,254 posts)durablend
(8,510 posts)"We need to cheat harder!"
Torchlight
(5,695 posts)A Dem winning by more than 10 points that district may (or may not) point to a very dramatic autumn next year.
Blue Owl
(57,361 posts)NNadir
(36,592 posts)...selection process given that it's a state that can elect shitheads like Grassley and Ernst, sad impersonations of genuine human beings.