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Republican Response: Joni Ernst Replies to 2015 State of the Union FULL SPEECH – Video


Republican Response: Joni Ernst Replies to 2015 State of the Union FULL SPEECH
Squeal! Joni Ernst will respond to SOTU Newly elected Senator Joni Ernst, who made her mark on the public stage with her Squeal campaign ad will deliver the Republican response to the President #39;s...

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Sen. Joni Ernst Delivers The Republican Response – Video


Sen. Joni Ernst Delivers The Republican Response
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Meet Joni Ernst, The Republican Senator Responding to …

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Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has only been a U.S. senator for two weeks, but tonight she will be the face of the GOP when she delivers the Republican response to President Obamas State of the Union address.

In November, Iowans elected Ernst as the first woman to ever represent the state in Congress. She catapulted to political stardom with an ad about castrating hogs, making Lets make em squeal a hallmark of her campaign.

Ernst, 44, served as an Iowa state senator before running for the Senate last year. Throughout her campaign, Ernst touted herself as a Harley-riding Sunday school teacher, who also serves as a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander in the Iowa Army National Guard.

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Ernst would deliver the official Republican response to the presidents State of the Union address during the Republican retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Ernst said she was humbled and honored to be chosen for the task.

It is a long way from Red Oak to Washington, D.C., and growing up on a southwest Iowa farm years ago I never, never would have imagined that I would have this opportunity, Ernst said.

Ernst is expected to hold major political influence in the 2016 presidential contest. Earlier this month, Ernst announced she would host an event called Hogs and Harleys for Republican presidential hopefuls in June.

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Republican activists widely say Romney should sit out …

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SAN DIEGO Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:20am EST

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally with Republican candidate for the United States Senate Scott Brown at Gilchrist Metal Fabricating in Hudson, New Hampshire October 15, 2014.

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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's declaration that he is considering a third shot at the White House after being a two-time Republican presidential loser was widely greeted with disdain at a national gathering of Republican activists on Thursday.

Romney, the Republican U.S. presidential nominee in 2012, told a meeting of donors in New York last week that he is considering another White House run in 2016. Romney lost to incumbent Democratic president Barack Obama in 2012, and lost the Republican presidential nominating race in 2008 to Senator John McCain.

If Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, does enter the 2016 presidential race, opposition to a possible third White House attempt is already widespread and deeply felt, according to interviews with a gathering of grassroots Republican party members where Romney is scheduled to speak on Friday night.

At the Republican National Committee winter meeting in San Diego, many of the roughly 300 activists in attendance said Romney had his chance. A third bid would also buck historical trends. Only one presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, lost a presidential race, as he did in 1960 to John F. Kennedy, to go on to win the White House in a later race. Nixon won the 1968 presidential election.

"Mitt Romney. He didn't run his campaign right against Obama. He flubbed it. Another Romney candidacy would be a complete disaster, and I don't think he'll even get there," said Bill Eastland, a Republican party member from Texas.

Should he choose to run in 2016, Romney will still be a formidable candidate, having maintained a network of wealthy donors and having learned lessons from two national presidential campaigns.

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