.MaddowBlog: Why Rep. Steve King's Iowa constituents ended his toxic career
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who has a long history of racist and outrageous remarks, lost his long-held House seat in a Republican primary on Tuesday, NBC News projected. With 98 percent of the vote counted, King trailed his main rival, state Sen. Randy Feenstra, by 7,866 votes, or 45.7 percent to 35.9 percent.
The incumbent's primary defeat comes just two years after he narrowly won re-election in his conservative district, defeating J.D. Scholten in 2018 by just 3 percentage points. Scholten was hoping for a 2020 rematch, though given the political leanings of northwestern Iowa, Feenstra is well positioned to succeed King in the U.S. House.of racist rhetoric and repulsive controversies. After all, the Republican lawmaker's record of offenses didn't start in 2019.
Maybe King's loss of clout after losing his committee assignments left him looking politically impotent. Maybe local Republicans were waiting for a credible primary challenger to come along and Feenstra fit the bill. Maybe it mattered locally when state and national GOP leaders abandoned King once he became too embarrassing to defend.
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