Joni Ernst announced this week she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as the nation’s next secretary of defense, it underlined ...

Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense is one step closer to receiving the GOP votes he needs to sail through ...

Look at Nebraska's just-completed Senate race to see that fealty to Donald Trump wouldn't guarantee Ernst keeps her seat, ...

Some MAGA-minded Republicans have suggested Kari Lake, an Iowa native, should challenge U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst in a primary in ...

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst announced that she would vote for Pete Hegseth to become Defense Secretary, making his path to Senate ...

Joni Ernst understandably had serious questions about ... "That's when the grass roots kicked in hard. MAGA wants a combat vet who will take on the woke and take on the war profiteers." ...

As far as Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of Defense goes, Senator Joni Ernst was the ball game, and it was over in ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

Take a MAGA-silly candidate who’s already lost ... then the agricultural sector of Joni Ernst’s Iowa will be decimated. Seems like she ought to be concerned about that.

Joni Ernst (R-IA) seems to have singlehandedly breathed ... Ernst has come under intense pressure from MAGA world to back Hegseth or face a primary challenge in 2026, as the NYT reported: Ms ...

He doesn’t get enough credit for it, but in his first term, President Donald Trump shut down some of the worst ...

Joni Ernst faces a pivotal decision ... Ernst, fearing a primary challenge from the MAGA right, will likely vote to confirm most, if not all, of Trump’s nominees. But this would be a mistake.