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Joni Ernst’s “Bruce Braley Moment”
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 02, 2020 09:20pm |
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| Author | Pat Rynard |
| News Date | Thursday, September 3, 2020 01:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sometimes you really do wonder if Sen. Joni Ernst is trying to lose.
As if Iowa wasn’t already facing enough embarrassing national headlines for the state’s disastrous COVID-19 situation, Ernst decided she’d make her own waves with a set of dangerous comments on pandemic conspiracy theories.
In the Amie Rivers story in the Courier that has since gone viral, Ernst is quoted as citing the false 10,000 number of “real” COVID-19 deaths from the thoroughly debunked internet conspiracy theory. Even more amazingly, she besmirched the reputation of the frontline health care workers she so often says she supports.
“These health care providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if COVID is tied to it, so what do you think they’re doing?” Ernst mused to the Waterloo crowd on Monday night.
Ernst’s reckless comments drew massive national attention, drawing coverage at CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, The Hill, the Daily Beast and more, as well as most of the Iowa media outlets.
It was needless. It was bizarre. It was dumb. |
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