Alex Wagner

Yeah, that was not a good answer.

It was not a good answer.

And it was not a popular position to take on health care.

And so, you know, we had already been planning to announce the campaign that happened a few days later.

In August, a poll comes out for the general election showing me leading Joni Ernst by two points in a head-to-head matchup.

Ten days later, she's out of the race.

Ashley Hinson's getting in.

I don't think we can take all the credit for Joni withdrawing from the race, but we'll take a little bit of the credit.

Take it.

And when Ashley first got in, to exactly your question, a lot of folks don't know who's Ashley Hinson.

And so I would kind of tell people, look,

She's kind of like the Marjorie Taylor Greene of the Midwest.

The problem is I can't use that comparison anymore because Marjorie, I know she seems reasonable compared to Hinson.

I mean, Hinson, look, she has all the same terrible votes that Joni Ernst does for the Republican budget, the big billionaire tax cut, cutting 800 billion from Medicaid, defunding Obamacare, all of that stuff.

But in addition to all of that, she's co-sponsored a total abortion ban in the U.S.

House.

She has voted not once but twice against capping the cost of insulin.

She's voted against Medicare being able to negotiate over prescription drugs.

She's actually voted to cut social security, which not a lot of people know yet, but they certainly will in November.

Very bad vote.