GRINNELL — With Iowa Democrats sensing an opportunity to deny Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley a seventh term, three candidates hoping to replace him made their cases to be Iowa’s next U.S. senator.
Democrats believe that the inevitability of Grassley’s re-election has disappeared — or at least diminished, according to Charlene Doyle of the Poweshiek County Democrats and one of the organizers of the Democratic debate Thursday in Grinnell.
“It’s different now that he’s refused to have hearings on the Supreme Court nominee,” she said. “Even out here in the rural areas, at his town hall meetings, Republicans are standing up and asking him why he’s doing that.”
In making their cases, Clarence attorney Tom Fiegen, Sen. Rob Hogg of Cedar Rapids and veterans’ advocate Bob Krause of Fairfield sounded similar themes on the minimum wage, college affordability, defending a woman’s right to an abortion, opposing fracking and supporting weaning America from fossil fuel.
It was in their approaches to the race and the job of being a U.S. senator where the trio broke ranks. For the full article click here
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