The 2020 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Iowa, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Primaries were held on June 2.[1]
Most experts and pollsters considered this race and the concurrent presidential race as a tossup due to incumbent president Donald Trump's low approval ratings and Ernst's own popularity dropping in polls, partly due to a viral moment in a debate where she did not know the price of corn.[2] Despite this, Ernst was reelected by a larger-than-expected 6.6 points, while Trump simultaneously won the state with a similarly unexpected margin of victory. Ernst carried an overwhelming majority of the state's counties including many rural ones, while Greenfield carried only eight counties: Polk, Linn, Scott, Johnson, Black Hawk, Story, Cerro Gordo and Jefferson.[3]
Despite Ernst's win, the election marked the worst Republican performance in the Class II seat since 1978, and the best Democratic performance since Tom Harkin's landslide victory in 2008. It is also the closest election since 1996.
^"United States Senate election in Iowa, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
^Rosenberg, Benjamin (October 16, 2020). "Joni Ernst didn't know the price of soybeans. Here's why that could cost her". Vox. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
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