Of course she would:
http://mediamatters.org/...
After spending weeks avoiding interviews with Iowa newspaper editorial boards who threatened to ask substantive policy questions, Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst took refuge on Fox News, where hosts lavished her with uncritical praise.
Ernst has recently come under fire after cancelling or declining meetings with the editorial boards of major Iowa newspapers. Staff at key Iowa papers told Media Matters that Ernst's recent avoidance of them is nearly unprecedented and pointed to the importance of local papers as forum for candidates "to explain one's positions" to voters in her state.
But Ernst isn't avoiding the media entirely.
On October 24, Ernst sat down for a softball interview with the hosts of Fox & Friends. Fox ran two of Ernst's campaign ads -- her infamous pig castration spot and a recent sequel -- while co-host Peter Johnson, Jr. commented that Ernst had "captured the imagination of voters." Co-host Brian Kilmeade called her "one of the more exciting new candidates." - Media Matters For America, 10/24/14
Ernst ran away from the Iowa press after the Des Moines Register called her out on her position on Personhood. Plus she may not want to talk about this:
http://www.motherjones.com/...
A lawsuit filed last week by a former GOP staffer in the Iowa state Senate claims that US Senate candidate Joni Ernst, a Republican, saw male colleagues sexually harass a female employee when Ernst served in the state Senate and "did and said" nothing to stop the abuse.
Kirsten Anderson, a former communications director for the Iowa Senate Republican Caucus, filed the lawsuit against the caucus on October 16. She claims that she was a victim of sexual harassment when she worked for the caucus and that when she complained to her superiors, she was fired. "By way of just one example, Sen. Joni Ernst of Red Oak and Sen. Sandra Greiner of Keota witnessed sexual innuendo and inappropriate behavior exhibited by their male colleagues and did and said nothing while female staffers stood by unable to say anything," the suit alleges.
The lawsuit mentions Ernst just once, and Anderson does not name Ernst, who is a member of the caucus, as a defendant. But Democrats in Iowa, where Ernst is in an extremely tight race against Democratic candidate Bruce Braley, have seized on the allegation in the final weeks of the campaign. - Mother Jones, 10/24/14
Or this:
http://thinkprogress.org/...
In a newly released video from a 2012 National Rifle Association event, Iowa Republican senate candidate Joni Ernst said that she would use a gun to defend herself from the government.
“I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family — whether it’s from an intruder, or whether it’s from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important,” Ernst said at the rally, which was held about a month after James Holmes allegedly murdered 12 people in Aurora, CO.
Ernst is known for her support of gun rights. She made a splash in May with an ad where she promised to “unload” on Obamacare; the ad showed her firing a handgun at a shooting range, as the narrator says that “Joni doesn’t miss much.” Also in May, The Des Moines Register reported that Ernst had brought a gun into Iowa’s capital before it was outlawed. The NRA gave her an ‘A’ rating and endorsed her for her opposition of universal background checks and ban on lead ammunition. In a GOP primary debate, Ernst described the death of seven people at the University of California Santa Barbara as an “unfortunate accident” and that “because of a horrible, horrible tragedy, I don’t believe we should be infringing upon peoples’ Second Amendment rights.” - Think Progress, 10/23/14
And Ernst' press cancellation comes with a big risk:
http://www.newsweek.com/...
Thursday was a good day for Braley because his opponent abruptly decided not to meet with the editorial boards of several of the state’s newspapers, including the prominent Des Moines Register. It’s a tradition across the country that candidates sit down with the editors of the local papers to share their views on policy and help the editorial boards make decisions about endorsements. But Ernst has opted out.
The press jumped on the news and Democrats had a field day. Ernst likely believes that she has a better chance of winning if she avoids any missteps that might arise in these meetings—and might be right. “[It’s] part of her effort to control her message in the final days of the campaign,” said Republican Douglas Gross, a gubernatorial candidate in Iowa. “She is nothing if not disciplined.”
But the decision also plays into the message the Braley campaign has been trying to get across for months but with little luck: that Ernst is a Sarah Palin-style extreme conservative.
“I think this will be a problem for her,” Jeff Link, an adviser to the Braley campaign, said of Ernst’s decision to skip the newspaper meetings. “This just hasn’t happened in Iowa before. Iowans are smart and will scratch their head over this.”
After Ernst emerged from a Republican primary having voiced a number of far-right positions, Team Braley immediately decided to paint her, as one Braley television ad put it, as “too extreme for Iowa.”
During the primary, Ernst endorsed the idea of privatizing Social Security by shifting future contributions to personal accounts, called the idea of a federal minimum wage “ridiculous” (she later said she supports it), called President Obama a dictator who should perhaps face impeachment (she walked that back almost immediately) and appeared concerned about the Agenda 21 conspiracy that she described as a United Nations effort to forcibly move Americans into urban centers and confiscate their property (she later walked that back too). In 2012, she told a libertarian group that she would support legislation to nullify the the Affordable Care Act and allow state law enforcement to arrest federal officials trying to implement it. In 2013, she backed “personhood” amendment to the Iowa state constitution that would ban all abortions and some contraception and turn miscarriages into murder investigations. - Newsweek, 10/24/14
Some other good news, Braley will be getting a big guest on the campaign trail:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/...
Former President Bill Clinton will return to Iowa just three days ahead of Election Day next month to campaign for fellow Democrat Bruce Braley, the U.S. Senate candidate locked in a tight battle with Republican Joni Ernst.
Clinton will headline an "Iowa Votes" rally with Braley in downtown Des Moines on Saturday, Nov. 1, and then appear at Braley's Bruce, Blues and BBQ fundraiser that evening in Waterloo.
An advisory announcing the events – shared exclusively with The Des Moines Register on Friday – said Clinton will encourage voters to cast their ballots early.
Iowa voters may vote early at county election offices and satellite voting locations through Monday, Nov. 3.
Election Day is Nov. 4. - Des Moines Register, 10/24/14
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