{"id":1696832,"date":"2022-10-15T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696832"},"modified":"2022-10-16T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:37:06","slug":"joni-ernst-race-for-senate-control-tighter-than-battle-for-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joni-ernst-race-for-senate-control-tighter-than-battle-for-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Ernst: Race for Senate Control Tighter Than Battle for House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoni-ernst-race-for-senate-control-tighter-than-battle-for-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>AURORA, Ohio \u2014 Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said the quiet part out loud, acknowledging Republican prospects for winning the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> majority are less certain even as she declared the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-of-representatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House<\/a> a lock for a Republican takeover in the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can do this in the House \u2014 I see that red wave coming in the House,\u201d Ernst told a crowd of about 50 grassroots Republicans and party officials Thursday during extemporaneous remarks while accompanying Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance on a campaign swing through northern Ohio. \u201cIt\u2019s a little more difficult in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ernst followed those comments with a predictable prediction. \u201cI see that red wave coming in the United States Senate, too,\u201d she said, as Vance looked on. But the second-term Iowa senator conceded during a brief interview with the Washington Examiner afterward that the battle for the Senate is tougher for Republicans, and the outcome less assured, than the fight for the House.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just is because the dynamics are very different,\u201d Ernst said in a banquet room at the Aurora Inn Event Center in Aurora, Ohio, a bedroom community of 17,240, in Portage County, about 30 miles southeast of Cleveland. \u201cWe are really just battling out some of what we consider more purple states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look here in Ohio, we have got a Democrat and a Republican, and our states don\u2019t shift. House districts shift with every census. It doesn\u2019t in the Senate,\u201d Ernst continued, referring to Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and decennial redistricting, which resulted in more seats drawn to elect either Democrats or Republicans.<\/p><source data-image-size=\"1060x600\" \/>Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance (left) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) appear at a campaign event.   (David Drucker \/ Washington Examiner)      <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we\u2019re still battling out some of the same old battles we\u2019ve had before,\u201d she said. In a \u201cpurple state, you need to appeal to a wide variety of voters, and it becomes a lot trickier.\u201d The House also appears more winnable for Republicans because Democrats are defending a thin majority that hinges on a handful of seats. Even absent a red wave, the GOP is positioned to recapture the speaker\u2019s gavel.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/jd-vance-acknowledges-close-race\">JD VANCE ACKNOWLEDGES CLOSE RACE WITH TIM RYAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ernst\u2019s assessment of the Senate battle lines is not all that different from the one <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/mcconnell-says-republicans-may-not-win-senate-control-citing-candidate-rcna43777\">offered<\/a> by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in August during a visit with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. \u201cI think there\u2019s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different \u2014 they&#8217;re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s remarks upset some on the Right, with conservative critics accusing the Senate\u2019s No. 1-ranking Republican of purposely casting unwarranted doubts about GOP prospects for recapturing the majority in a chamber split 50-50. The Democrats control the Senate courtesy of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AURORA, Ohio \u2014 Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said the quiet part out loud, acknowledging Republican prospects for winning the Senate majority are less certain even as she declared the House a lock for a Republican takeover in the midterm elections. \u201cWe can do this in the House \u2014 I see that red wave coming in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1696834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}