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Check Mate: Rep. Steve King, who was shunned by GOP leaders for his racist remarks, loses in Iowa primary

Pigs are being culled in Iowa.

Iowa Republicans voted Tuesday to end the long and divisive congressional career of Rep. Steve King, whose hard-right views on immigration and abortion became part of the GOP mainstream over two decades in the House but whose deliberately polarizing rhetoric ultimately became a liability for his party.

Support for King started to evaporate last year after he made racially offensive remarks that forced national Republicans to distance themselves from the conservative Iowa firebrand. ...

Even Moscow Mitch told King to "find another line of work".

Removal of the racist will likely leave the seat Republican:

With King’s loss, two prominent nonpartisan forecasters — the Cook Political Report and Inside Elections — moved the race from “lean Republican” to “safe Republican,” indicating Feenstra should have no trouble dispatching Scholten in a district that voted for Donald Trump by 27 points in 2016. ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-steve-kings-political-career-on-the-line-in-tuesdays-primaries/2020/06/02/bafb7da4-a44b-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

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