Judge/Grassley in Huffington post [View all]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chuck-grassley-patty-judge-reelection_us_580a32a0e4b000d0b1563d04?section=

last three paragraphs. meh.

“Chuck Grassley’s refusal to condemn Donald Trump’s candidacy following the revelation of Trump’s disgusting statements about sexual assault is pathetic,” Judge said in a press release. The Grassley campaign, which didn’t respond to a request for comment for this piece, has tried to downplay the issue.

“You stop to think, there’s only a few saints who have been president of the United States,” Grassley told a group of reporters in Iowa this week. Grassley added that he found Trump’s remarks “deplorable,” but added that he is “focusing on my re-election.”

The taint of Trump’s candidacy might have sunk a lesser candidate. But Grassley is both an institution and a familiar face in Iowa ― he makes a point of making an annual visit to every county in the state, and he may very well know the locations of all those Dairy Queens. And it would appear that Trump has had the salubrious effect for Grassley of keeping the Garland nomination off the front page. Trump has sucked all the oxygen out of the room, and not just because of those great gulping nasal sniffs of his.