Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst (R) tried to shrug off the fact that she blew off an editorial board meeting with the Des Moines Register, the state’s biggest newspaper.
“They made a clear in a number of editorials they would not be supporting my candidacy,” Ernst, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday. “It’s important for me to be out on the road meeting with voters across Iowa, allowing them to reach out and shake my hand and ask me tough questions. It’s better to be on the road than to sit in front after board that was not going to endorse me.”
Ernst had been previously scheduled to meet with the editorial board but just before the meeting members of the editorial announced that Ernst had abruptly cancelled that meeting as well as similar meetings with other prominent newspapers.
Ernst and her supporters have pointed to the fact that the Register has repeatedly written critical pieces of her.
During a visit to Iowa to boost Democratic nominee Rep. Bruce Braley, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Ernst’s decision to blow off the meeting disqualified her. Ernst, predictably, disagreed on Thursday.
“I sat down the board during the primary and did very well. I’m meeting with other editorial boards as I have time,” Ernst said. “Spending time with Iowans is the most important thing, not a roomful of editors sitting in an office building in Des Moines.”
The TPM Polltracker average finds Ernst with a 1.2 point lead over Braley.
More proof of the “Conservative Bubble”.
They don’t like it when REALITY intrudes into their little fantasy-world so they do everything they can to keep it outside “The Bubble”. You are either a “true believer” who needs no facts or evidence, or you are one of the enemy.
Gracious, like a rural empress…
Send this pig castrator back to the barn, not to Washington.
She’s terrified of having a Palin-esque interview like the one with Kouric.
“They made a clear in a number of editorials they would not be supporting my candidacy”
Yes, to be fair, they did indeed do that…when they represented to the public that they were going to base their endorsement decisions on the candidates’ ability to articulate and defend rational policy positions with facts and data. Now, we all know that most newspapers and MSM outlets, etc., don’t REALLY do that, so what this really means is that she’s very afraid of being so utterly ridiculous that they can’t even massage and misrepresent the interview sufficiently to justify endorsing her (you know, liek that paper that interviewed Kasich and now wants to hide his interview video because it’s a joke and somewhat offensive, but they endorsed him anyway).
But her not meeting with the editorial board because there was nothing in it for her makes you wonder if she would reach out and talk to groups that may not agree with her…would she talk to them anyway?
I don’t know; I’ve had interviews where I figured I would not get the job but I tried anyway. I know that’s not the same but sometimes you have to put your best foot forward. And if you fall, you get right back up and try again.
Her move seems a bit cowardly.