Governor Kim Reynolds is offering some blunt advice to a fellow Republican. "I think that Steve King needs to make a decision if he wants to represent the people and the values of the fourth district or do something else," Reynolds said today in Ottumwa. Congressman King, often at the center … [Read more...]
Congressman King says he won’t tolerate those that ‘refuse to print the truth’ about him
Iowa Congressman Steve King says he will push back harder against media outlets which he says "don’t tell the truth." King, a Republican from Kiron, won a narrow victory to retain the Fourth District seat last week over Democrat J.D. Scholten, who King claims was funded by out-of-state interests. … [Read more...]
Congressman Steve King expects impeachment battle
Republican Congressman Steve King says he's ready to mount a vigorous defense of the president in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee next year. King predicts "a good number" of Democrats will try to impeach the president once Democrats take the majority in the House in January. "I sit on the … [Read more...]
Historic night for women candidates Reynolds, Finkenauer, Axne
There were historic victories in Iowa for three women on the 2018 ballot. Today is the 532nd day Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has been Iowa's governor and Iowa voters on Tuesday gave her a full, four-year term in the job. "Thank you, Iowa! What an honor," she said to cheering supporters at … [Read more...]
Campaign Countdown: King versus Scholten draws national attention
Democrats are pointing to new polling data from The New York Times and The Des Moines Register to suggest long-time fourth district congressman Steve King may have a race on his hands in 2018. Iowa State University political science professor David Andersen said after eight easy races in a safe … [Read more...]
King says he stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with Trump on immigration
Republican Congressman Steve King is disputing his Democratic opponent J.D. Scholten's assertion that King's views on many issues, including immigration, are out-of-step with fourth district voters. "He is the antithesis of the values of this district," King told Radio Iowa this afternoon, "and I … [Read more...]
Scholten says King ’10 miles down the road’ from mainstream on immigration
J.D. Scholten, the Democrat challenging Republican Congressman Steve King, says the end of "straight ticket" voting in Iowa may give his own campaign a boost this year. "If you look at the 2016 election numbers, four percent of all the people who voted in my district, they undervoted in this … [Read more...]
U.S. Representative King says ‘fiasco’ of past week based on lies (AUDIO)
Republican Congressman Steve King is forcefully rejecting critics who've accused him of holding the same views as the man who killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburg synagogue. King spoke at a forum today in Des Moines and verbally clashed with Iowa State University student Kaleb VanFossen, who was in the … [Read more...]
Governor says she speaks for herself, isn’t responsible for King’s comments
Republican Governor Kim Reynolds says Iowa needs more legal immigrants to fill job openings and she "strongly" disagrees with some of the comments Congressman Steve King has made about the danger immigrants from places like Central America and Mexico pose to western civilization. "We are a … [Read more...]
GOP campaign leader condemns King’s ‘recent comments, actions and retweets’
The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee has taken to Twitter to chastise Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King. King has responded by saying the attack is "orchestrated" by those who seek to impeach the president. Steve Stivers is the Ohio congressman who leads the … [Read more...]