Ernst Defends Biden Remark | Talking Points Memo

During an interview on CNN Sunday morning,Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) responded to the backlash she received for her remark last week regarding whether the Trump legal team’s Biden-focused arguments would influence Democratic Iowa caucusgoers.


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Elected Ernst.

Not Smart.

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They can redeem themselves by correcting this error in 2020.

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“And I’d really like to thank CBS for providing such a timely and convenient outlet for our disinformation efforts leading up the caucuses,” she added. “Facebook just isn’t delivering results the way it did in 2016.”

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The Biden campaign thanks Joni Ernst for her support.

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Joni Ernst is an idiot.

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They have elected Steve King forever, so not only not smart, but mean spirited as well.

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Ernst—You can just fuck right off. And take that racist a-hole King with you.

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I cannot overstate how much I hate the smiley, smarmy snark that conservatives like Ernst engage in. They think they’re so goddam clever when they use sarcasm to make their point and think they’re getting away with something and not just lying in people’s faces.

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Point, re Smart voters: 2008, Obama.

Counterpoint: Pretty much too many embarrassments to name here. Yes on the other side of the aisle the stupid is very strong. As soon as the particular embarrassment featured in this story has a set opponent I will be sending them a check.

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Up is down, black is white.

Repeat after Trump.

Up is down, black is white.

1984 was only 35 years too soon.

I hate it when reality is determined to prove tired cliches to be the absolute truths.

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Whoa! If she thinks what Joe Biden has done is wrong (in her fevered imaginations, of course), then just wait until someone tells her what Donald Trump has actually done.

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“Ernst blamed the House managers for supposedly bringing up the Bidens excessively.”

Irony isn’t just dead, it’s been detained by the FSB, tortured in the basement of the Lubyanka, and dumped in the Volga.

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It was outrageous the way the prosecutors kept talking about the victims of the crime!

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May the testicles of ten thousand hogs waggle in a nightmarish ritual dance and haunt her dreams till her last breath on earth.

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Oh pish-posh!

That’s the ‘owning the libs’ smirk, silly!

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DAYum! That’s some next level shade right there!

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And grabbed by the pu**y on the way out the door…

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Saved me the trouble.

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Bit of a muddled mess of a message from Republicans.

Lamar Alexander is saying Trump did what the House Managers said -that he extorted Ukraine to cheat in our next election -but that’s not Impeachable, let alone convictable, while Jodi Ernst is saying whatever it is Biden supposedly did makes him unelectable.

I trust Iowans are indeed as smart as Ernst thinks, and they throw her into retirement in November.

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