Ashley Hinson Suffers From Another Bad Week Post-Primary

Ashley Hinson Suffers From Another Bad Week Post-Primary

Iowans Blanketing News to Condemn Hinson’s Self-Enrichment and Fractured Republican Support Leave Hinson Bruised

DES MOINES – Ashley Hinson is struggling in the first weeks of the general election after Iowans in Sioux City and Des Moines called her out on her corrupt self-enrichment and her Republican Senate opponent, Jim Carlin, told voters to not vote for Hinson in November.

• First, Jim Carlin announced in a press release on Monday that he “cannot in good conscience ask [Iowans] to vote for Ashley Hinson,” citing Hinson’s prioritization of “donors, lobbyists, corporations, and Washington insiders over the voices of ordinary Americans.”

• Then, local leaders in Sioux City called out Hinson for selling out Iowans and hiking costs on working families so she and her wealthy donors can get rich. Hinson has increased her net worth by up to 10 times since she was sworn into office in 2021, all while repeatedly voting to hurt Iowans.

• To round out the week, local Des Moines leaders came together to share their outrage about Hinson’s disingenuous support for banning congressional stock trading. The truth is she continues to “quietly” hold up to $5 million in insurance company stock and refused to support an effort to ban Members of Congress and their families from owning and trading stock.

See What Iowans Were Seeing and Reading This Week: 

• KCCI: Iowa Democrats criticize Ashley Hinson over finances and policies

• Iowa Democrats gathered in Des Moines Thursday to criticize Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, claiming her policies have hurt working families.

• “We deserve public servants who take on the tough fights and get the job done. In the state house, I have proudly fought against corruption in our political system because if you don’t root out corruption, it only intensifies,” said state Rep. Jennifer Konfrst.

• Konfrst said Hinson’s policies have negatively impacted working-class families, who are already facing higher costs and healthcare concerns.

• KCAU: ‘Iowa Can’t Afford Ashley’ statewide tour makes stop in Sioux City

• Medicaid and many other topics were discussed at Tuesday’s stop. One of the main talking points was a Republican Iowa Senate candidate, Ashley Hinson. Hinson is looking to succeed Iowa Senator Joni Ernst.

• According to a financial disclosure report from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in 2024, Hinson’s husband held somewhere between $1 million and $5 million in privately held insurance company stock. Hinson herself has previously stated that she supports the ban on congressional stock trading.

• Local Democrats said they are fed up with what’s happening and are looking for change.

• Woodbury County Democratic Chair Ryan Akerberg spoke on Hinson’s alleged stock trading.

• “I’m sick of highlighting her grift. Ok, yes, that is a fact. It’s there. You can read it. You can look it over. It’s a little too vast to even go into detail. I mean, how long do you have? The idea, though, is that it exists,” Akerberg said. “We want to bring light to it. But the fact of the matter is there’s alternatives to this. People don’t have to just stick with the status quo and the people who are representing them now; they have choices.”

• Des Moines Register: Iowa’s US Senate primary loser Carlin tells GOP not to support Hinson

• Jim Carlin, who lost Iowa’s Republican U.S. Senate primary earlier this month, said he cannot tell his supporters to vote for Ashley Hinson, the GOP candidate who beat him.

• In an unusual move, Carlin posted a message to supporters on his campaign website saying, “we do not owe blind loyalty to any political party. Votes should be earned, not assumed.”

• “So let me be direct: I cannot in good conscience ask you to vote for Ashley Hinson,” he wrote. “She does not share our values, and a Republican label is not enough. It has never been enough. And until our party understands that our votes must be earned, not assumed, nothing will change.”

• Sioux City Journal: Jim Carlin urges supporters to not vote for his GOP U.S. Senate opponent Ashley Hinson

• Jim Carlin, a Sergeant Bluff Republican who lost his long-shot bid for the U.S. Senate, told his supporters Monday he could not “in good conscience ask you to vote” for the GOP nominee, U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson.

• “Even Ashley Hinson’s fellow Republicans do not trust her to represent them in the U.S. Senate because they know that she will continue to sell out Iowans to enrich herself and her billionaire donors,” Iowa Democratic Party spokesperson Drew Myers said in a statement Monday.

• Myers’ statement came as Iowa Democrats brought their “Iowa Can’t Afford Ashley” statewide tour to Sioux City Tuesday. At the event, Democrats were set to accuse Hinson of “selling out Iowans and hiking costs on working families so that she and her wealthy donors can get rich.”

• KGAN: Jim Carlin tells supporters not to support Ashley Hinson in Senate race

• Former Republican state Sen. Jim Carlin is telling his supporters not to support Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, whom he lost to in this month’s GOP U.S. Senate primary.

• In his email, Carlin says Hinson “is not alone” and encourages those who voted for him to “look at your ballot this November” and ask if every candidate has earned their vote.

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