{"id":12840,"date":"2025-09-02T21:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ashley-hinson-launches-iowa-senate-bid\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:49:29","slug":"ashley-hinson-launches-iowa-senate-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ashley-hinson-launches-iowa-senate-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Hinson launches Iowa Senate bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson launched her campaign Tuesday for Iowa\u2019s open Senate seat, aiming replace two-term Sen. Joni Ernst in the red-leaning state.<\/p>\n<p>Hinson, who has served in the House since 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/10\/joni-ernst-retirement-watch-iowa-senate-seat-00447670\" target=\"_blank\">has long been seen as a potential successor<\/a> to Ernst, who announced earlier in the day that she won&#8217;t run for reelection. <\/p>\n<p>Hinson hinted at jumping into the race in a post on X just minutes after Ernst\u2019 said she wouldn\u2019t seek reelection \u2014 then confirmed it later with a follow-up announcement on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m all in,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hinsonashley\/status\/1962986814806827427\" target=\"_blank\">she wrote<\/a>. &#8220;I\u2019m running for the United States Senate to fight alongside President Trump and deliver on the America First agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blue Light News previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/29\/joni-ernst-iowa-not-running-2026-00535754?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=substack\" target=\"_blank\"><u>reported on Hinson&#8217;s plans<\/u><\/a> to announce a Senate bid.<\/p>\n<p>Several Democrats are also vying for the seat, including state Sen. Zach Wahls and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2025\/08\/12\/dems-d-c-dilemma-00504669\" target=\"_blank\">state Rep. Josh Turek,<\/a> a four-time Paralympic basketball player who captured gold medals for the U.S. in 2016 and 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson launched her campaign Tuesday for Iowa\u2019s open Senate seat, aiming replace two-term Sen. Joni Ernst in the red-leaning state. Hinson, who has served in the House since 2021, has long been seen as a potential successor to Ernst, who announced earlier in the day that she won&#8217;t run for reelection. Hinson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}