Senator Johnny Ernst to announce that she will not seek to re -elect the Senate in Iowa

Republican Senator Johnny Ernest, from Iowa, will not be nominated for his re -election in the middle of next year, and three sources confirm to Fox News.

Ernest, 55, who was first elected to the Senate in 2014, is expected to be issued an official advertisement next week.

Ernst, a retired army reserve and the National Guard officer in Iowa, who served in the Iraq war, had been wrestling for months if he would be nominated for his re -election in 2026.

Senator’s decision to retire rather than to seek three years, creates an open seat in Iowa.

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Ashley Hinson, a representative of the Republican Party, plans for a previous television news broadcaster, during her third term, which represents the second Congress area in Iowa, which covers the northeastern part of the state, to run for Ernst, and multiple sources confirming to Fox News.

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Iowa was one day the highest battle country achieved by former President Barack Obama in his victories in the White House 2008 and 2012. But the state turned to the right in the last election sessions, as President Donald Trump carried the country with eight points in 2020 and 13 points last November.

Republicans are currently occupying both the Senate in the United States – Ernst and Senator Chuck Grassley for a long time – and all four regions of Congress in Iowa, as well as all offices at the state level with the exception of the state auditor, in which Democrat Rob Sand, who is running for the ruler next year.

But Democrats in Iowa are activated after two seats in the Senate in the state of the Republican Party in special elections so far this year.

Four Democrats are already running for the Senate in Iowa. This field includes MP Josh Turk, a basketball player in the two seat chair, Senator Zach Walls, CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, Nathan Sage and Chairman of the Di Jackie Norris School.

Ernest captured for the first time on national attention 11 years ago through “Make ‘Squal” ads because she won the prominent Senate elections in the race against the retirement of the democratic Senator Tom Harkin for a long time.

Thanks, thanks to its military background, the Senator often taken the initiative in defense cases.

Since Trump’s victory at the White House in 2016, Ernst has tried to balance her support for the president because she is winning a more traditional republic agenda.

Earlier this year, Ernest ignited a controversy after “we will die all” because she responded to the voters at the city council meeting, which raised concerns about Medicine’s discounts on the comprehensive local policy bill for the Republican Party.

Republicans aim not only to defense, but expansion, the current majority of 53-47 in the elections next year.

The Republicans of the Senate enjoyed a positive map in the 2024 session, when they flipped four seats from blue to red to increase the majority.

But the party in power – the Republicans are currently deceiving – facing the winds traditionally in the mid -term elections. However, the current reading of the 2026 map indicates that the Republican Party may be able to crime in some major cases.

In the battlefield, Georgia, which Trump carried a little difference in the White House race last year, Republicans look at Senator John Osov in the first period as the most vulnerable Democrat in the preoccupation next year.

They are also targeting the battlefield in Michigan, where Democratic Senator Gary Peters retires at the end of next year, swinging New Hampshire, where Democratic Senator Jin Shaheen has long decided to seek six years in the Senate.

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Also in the list of targets in NRSC, Blue Minnesota is in Minnesota, where Democratic Senator Tina Smith does not nominate his re -election.

But the Republican Party is defending an open seat in the battlefield in North Carolina, where Republican Senator Tom Tels decided to seek to re -election.

This is a developing story. Check again for updates.