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RandySF

(76,044 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 03:30 AM Jun 27

IA-01: When losing a race doesn't mean you'll lose again

ANALYSIS — After nearly 25 years of writing about campaigns, I should know better than to take press releases too seriously.

In a profession that rewards speed over quality analysis, I know press secretaries and communications directors have jobs to do and often rely on pithy one-liners to try to win the day. We’re supposed to look away and attribute it to business as usual. In other words, hate the game and not the player.

But a recent news release from the Iowa Republican Party was so audacious, hypocritical and devoid of any historical context that I just couldn’t forgive and forget




https://rollcall.com/2025/06/26/iowa-republicans-election-losers/

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