An explosive new report from the Associated Press today reveals how Senator Joni Ernst’s campaign group broke the law in its close overlap with a shady dark money group set up by her top political staff to support her re-election campaign in 2020.
Here are five key facts in the AP’s breaking story this morning: ‘Dark money’ ties raise questions for GOP Sen. Ernst of Iowa
DSCC spokesperson Stewart Boss released the following statement:
“This deeply troubling report details Senator Ernst and her staff secretively breaking the rules for personal gain, and those involved should be held fully accountable for this illegal conduct. Senator Ernst ran on a promise to shake up Washington and take on the special interests, but the truth is she’s been caught trying to exploit our broken campaign finance system to benefit her political career because she’s part of the problem.”
This report comes at an increasingly dire moment in Senator Ernst’s campaign — she was outraised in the third quarter by Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield, saw her approval rating plummet by the most of any Senate incumbent last quarter, and nonpartisan political analysts have shifted the Iowa Senate race in Democrats’ direction.
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