Campaign Almanac: Trump ally, leading House conservative endorses Grassley re-election
Calling him a “tireless advocate for Iowans who has fought and delivered time and time again” for Iowans, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has endorsed Sen. Chuck Grassley’s re-election.
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, is seeking an eighth term. “He has fought tooth and nail to root out waste and corruption in our government,” the New York congresswoman said.
“I’m honored to join President Donald Trump in endorsing Chuck Grassley,” Stefanik said.
In her endorsement, Stefanik, who was a domestic policy adviser to President George W. Bush before being elected to the House, noted Grassley’s efforts since 2019 to uncover “deeply troubling financial entanglements of the Biden family and the communist Chinese regime” involving President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and brother, James Biden.
“I’m proud to join Sen. Grassley in calling the media out for their blatant cover-up and censorship of the Hunter Biden scandal,” she said.
Grassley, who served in the House before being elected to the Senate in 1980, welcomed the endorsement from Stefanik — “a powerful voice for conservatives in Congress.”
“She calls it like it is and fights for what’s right,” Grassley said.
Grassley faces a primary challenge from state Sen. Jim Carlin, R-Sioux City.
Few conservatives in Congress have accomplished more than Grassley, according to Stefanik, who pointed to his work as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman to confirm hundreds of Trump’s “constitutionalist judges to the federal courts and led the confirmation of two Supreme Court justices to lifetime tenure, cementing the high court’s conservative majority.”
