5 Days Until Election Day: Iowans Are Hearing All About How Hinson Hiked Costs and Hurt Iowa with Her 7 Votes for the Iran War
KCCI: “Iowa Democrats and Veterans Criticize Rep. Ashley Hinson Over Iran War Votes”
WOI: “Iowa Veterans Protest Ashley Hinson in Des Moines”
Hinson Asked If She Will Push Back Against Further Escalation in Iran: “I’m Not Going to Box the American People into What We Need to Do”
DES MOINES – With only 5 days until Election Day, all Iowans are reading and hearing about is the devastating impact Ashley Hinson’s seven votes to continue the war in Iran are having on Iowa families as they fill up their cars at the pump and farmers as they finish harvest.
Meanwhile, Hinson has now indicated multiple times that she would support further escalating the war in Iran, which recent reports suggest could happen right after the midterm elections.
Key context: Hinson cast her seventh vote to continue the war in Iran just weeks ago as it devastated Iowa with “record diesel prices,” “surg[ing]” gas costs, fertilizer prices “near peak levels,” and inflation higher than the national average. She has repeatedly defended the war in Iran and downplayed the impact on Iowans, calling it “out of sight, out of mind” as Iowans struggle to pay their bills.” She has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Oil, and now those companies are seeing record profits up to $14 billion from the Iran war.
Missed the reports? See below for more key highlights:
KCCI: Iowa Democrats and veterans criticize Rep. Ashley Hinson over Iran war votes
- Iowa Democrats and veterans criticized Republican 2nd District Congresswoman Ashley Hinson for her votes on the war in Iran during an Iowa Democratic Party event on Wednesday.
- At the event, veterans and a military spouse discussed the cost of the war, including its impact on military families, farmers, and people paying higher fuel prices.
- “It’s been an enormous cost to all of us, not just in dollars and cents, but emotionally it has been very, very difficult. It’s a catastrophic blow,” said Ray Walton, a U.S. Army veteran.
WOI: Iowa veterans protest Ashley Hinson in Des Moines
- Anchor: “New today, Iowa veterans in Des Moines are protesting Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson on the eighth month anniversary of the Iran war. They say Hinson voted seven times for the war, which led to the surge in gas prices that affected Iowa farmers. Now, in the eight months since the war began, three Iowa servicemembers have died in the Middle East. Nathan Sage is a former U.S. Marine and a former U.S. Senate candidate. […] Sage says Hinson doesn’t support Iowans the way he claims she’s supposed to.”
- Nathan Sage, former U.S. Senate candidate and Marine veteran: “At the end of the day, Ashley Hinson is just another out-of-touch politician backing Donald Trump, not not backing the people that she’s supposed to be representing, the people of Iowa who are struggling every day. So, at the end of the day, we can sit here and talk about how you know this administration has a plan. It hasn’t been that way for eight months.”
- Anchor: “Sage also says the Iran war is affecting the way people vote and will come to gas prices and the general increase in cost-of-living.”
- Reporter: “If elected to the Senate, can your constituents count on you to push back against further escalation?”
- Ashley Hinson: “As you know, these conflicts can change very, very quickly. So, I’m not going to box the American people into what we need to do. I trust our U.S. military.”
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