Hinson obtains the leadership of the GOP for the Iowa Senate race against Ernst

EXCLUSIVE: A few hours before the Iowa Ashley Hinson representative launched a campaign swing on a state -of -scale scale as she runs to succeed the retirement of Gop Joni Ernst, she won the support of the Senate’s first Republican.

“We need conservative combatants in the Senate – and that’s exactly what we will get with Ashley Hinson,” wrote the head of the majority of Senate John Thune on Friday while he approved Hinson.

And Senator Tim Scott de Caroline du Sud, President of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which is the campaign branch of the GOP of the Senate, wrote: “After having traveled the Iowa with Ashley, I know that she is the hunter that Hawkeye’s state needs to deliver the agenda of President Trump in 2026 and

On the eve of Hinson’s recommendations and campaign event in West of the Moines, where she was born and grew up, she said in an exclusive digital interview with Fox News that she is “proud to stand” with President Donald Trump.

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The republican representative Ashley Hinson of Iowa launched on Tuesday a campaign in 2026 in the race to succeed the retirement of the Senator of Gop Joni Ernst. (Getty Images)

“We have a good sense approach in iowa, and I don’t want to see iowa look like California. I think we have to see the country more like Iowa,” she said.

“Iowa does things right,” she added.

Iowa was once a top of the top of the high -level battle that the former president Barack Obama Brought to its Victoires de la Maison Blanche 2008 and 2012. But the state moved to the right during recent electoral cycles with Trump bearing nine points in 2016, eight points in 2020 and 13 points last November.

The Republicans currently hold the two seats of the State Senate – Ernst and the longtime senator Chuck Grassley – and the four districts of the Iowa Congress, as well as all the offices on a state scale, with the exception of the state auditor.

And while Iowa Democrats are under tension after having reversed two seats in the GOP state Senate in special elections so far this year, Hinson considers his support to the President as an advantage when she presents herself to the Senate.

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“When I look at what message we sell, that’s what they voted for in the last elections. Iowans massively sent President Trump to the White House,” said Hinson.

Hinson, who stressed that she had won her own re -election from the 15 -point house last November, said: “We are running what I heard on the campaign track, namely that they wanted lower taxes”.

“So what have we made? We have delivered”, when she underlined the GOP national policy of the national GOP policy that the president reported on July 4, which extends the 2017 tax reductions and does not include any tax on advice and overtime for many workers.

President Donald Trump signs expenses and tax legislation, known as “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” during a picnic with the families of the military to mark independence, at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 4, 2025. (Reuters / Ken Cedeno)

Hinson said she was expecting “in the countryside impatiently and again showing the iowans why conservative and solid leadership, being a strong ally of President Trump, and assuring us that we will continue to keep these promises, so he is four years old to do so.”

The Senatorial Democratic campaign committee (DSCC) targeted Hinson after declaring its candidacy.

DSCC communications director Maeve Coyle argued that Hinson “voted several times to increase costs and make life more difficult for iowans by voting to reduce Medicaid, by encouraging chaotic prices that threaten the economy of Iowa, voting against measures to reduce the cost of insulin and threaten social security.

“I think they are at the best informed,” said Hinson in response.

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And she accused that “when I hear the lies and the effects that come out of the left, it is only to dissipate for the fact that they have no message and no real chef other than Bernie and AOC and now Mamdani in New York”, as she referred to Senator Bernie Sanders de Vermont, the representative of the namenage Alexandria of New York.

“If it is the direction they want to take our country, I think the iowans will reject it with all my heart,” she predicted.

Hinson also stressed that she “was part of the town hall. I just finished my 46th and 47th public town hall in the district, and speaking of what 47 (Trump) is doing to improve our country, cleaner the disorder of 46 (former president Joe Biden).”

The republican representative Ashley Hinson of Iowa, who presents himself in the 2026 race to succeed in retirement of the Senator of Gop Joni Ernst, is seated for a digital interview Fox News on September 4, 2025, in Washington, DC (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

During some of her town hall meetings in Iowa this spring and summer, Hinson drew national attention when she was facing disturbances, including wicks and animated questions from voters. The reaction was led by his support for the GOP taxes and expenditure invoice, which Trump at the time called his major bill.

“I think it is really important to be transparent and accessible, and I will go out and defend our program at any time, anywhere and speak with Iowans,” she said.

But she deplored that “unfortunately, what we saw is, as in my town hall last week, people just wanted to stay there, shout and have a camera in the face to try to get a viral clip. I don’t think it’s productive. That’s why I answered their questions.”

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Hinson does not have the primary field of the GOP for itself. Former senator from the State Jim Carlin and the veteran Joshua Smith had already entered the principal before Ernst’s announcement.

And five democrats are already presenting themselves in the Senate in Iowa. Among them, the representative of the State Josh Turek, a paralympian basketball player in wheelchair, the state senator Zach Wahls, the executive director of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, Nathan Sage and the president of the School Board of Moines, Jackie Norris.

The republican senator Joni Ernst of Iowa announced on Tuesday that she would not ask for his re-election in the mid-term of 2026. (Reuters)

Ernst, who announced Tuesday that she would not look for a third term of six years when she was re -elected in 2026, first drawn national attention in 2014 with her advertisements “Make ‘Em Squeal” when she won the high -level elections in iowa In the retirement race of the longtime Democratic senator Tom Harkin.

“11 years ago, Iowans elected me as the first veteran woman in combat in the American Senate, and they did it with a mission in mind – to make Washington scream. And I am proud to say that we have delivered. We have cut the waste, fraud and abuses through the federal government.”

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Hinson told Fox News that “Senator Ernst is my friend. I look at her, and you know, her efforts in the Senate. I think each iowan is proud, and Iowa is so much better because of his leadership.”

And looking towards the future, she said: “I would absolutely love to campaign side by side with Joni.”