GOP Leaders Really Want Steve King Gone. Could He Lose In 2020?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Rep. Steve King is no stranger to controversy. The Republican congressman’s recent comments about rape and incest have Republican leaders calling for his ouster, and this is just the latest entry on King’s laundry list of insensitive and racist statements. Nevertheless, King says he’s running for reelection in 2020.

But this could be the end of the line for King. He faces a serious challenge in the Republican primary and, if he overcomes that, a potential general election rematch with J.D. Scholten, the Democrat who gave King a close race in 2018.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gop-leaders-really-want-steve-king-gone-could-he-lose-in-2020/

Steve King Is Broke And Has Been Abandoned by His Colleagues as He Runs for Re-Election

As he gears up for a difficult re-election cycle, Rep. Steve King’s campaign is strapped for cash. Individual donations to the Iowa Republican are down considerably from past cycles and support from corporate donors and King’s own colleagues have vanished entirely.

King has not received a single contribution this year from a political action committee associated with a sitting member of Congress. Corporate PACs and interest groups have also completely shunned him. Through the first six months of the year, King received just two contributions from third party political entities: $2,000 donations from PACs associated with two former members of Congress, Lamar Smith (R-TX) and the infamous Todd Akin (R-MO).

It is a remarkable though not entirely unpredictable abandonment of a sitting member of Congress. Though he was always controversial and further to the right than most of his colleagues, King has burned virtually all his bridges in the party this year with outlandish comments about white supremacy and abortion.

But while those comments have made King a pariah in the party—with House Republican leaders stripping him of his committee assignments—King has refused to leave office. Now, as he faces the toughest campaign since he was first elected in 2002, he is doing so with a potentially catastrophic lack of resources. The $18,365 that King’s campaign had in the bank at the end of June was the least cash on hand he’s ever reported after the first six months of a cycle.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/steve-king-is-broke-and-has-been-abandoned-by-his-colleagues-as-he-runs-for-re-election/ar-AAGhQuY?li=BBnbcA1

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. He is the face and voice of their party.

Otherwise they would have ousted him long ago.

[MissMillie]

2. Here's something I found to add to this

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/steve-king-is-broke-and-has-been-abandoned-by-his-colleagues-as-he-runs-for-re-election/ar-AAGhQuY?ocid=spartanntp

Steve King Is Broke And Has Been Abandoned by His Colleagues as He Runs for Re-Election

As he gears up for a difficult re-election cycle, Rep. Steve King’s campaign is strapped for cash. Individual donations to the Iowa Republican are down considerably from past cycles and support from corporate donors and King’s own colleagues have vanished entirely.

King has not received a single contribution this year from a political action committee associated with a sitting member of Congress. Corporate PACs and interest groups have also completely shunned him. Through the first six months of the year, King received just two contributions from third party political entities: $2,000 donations from PACs associated with two former members of Congress, Lamar Smith (R-TX) and the infamous Todd Akin (R-MO).

It is a remarkable though not entirely unpredictable abandonment of a sitting member of Congress. Though he was always controversial and further to the right than most of his colleagues, King has burned virtually all his bridges in the party this year with outlandish comments about white supremacy and abortion.

(more at the link)

[Kurt V.]

3. he says the quiet parts alound without the charisma to back it up.

hell yes they want him gone.

[onetexan]

4. Scholten the Dem challenger lost to this racist pig in 2018 by 10K votes

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/david-kochs-monstrous-legacy.html

If King somehow wins the GOP nomination again Scholten may have a good chance given Repugs have abandoned King.

[rurallib]

5. Problem for us is that King is being primaried and one of his Repug opponent

may be very tough to beat in the general.

Randy Feenstra is a state senator and delivered a big tax cut to the crazies last year. It is a terrible bill, but repugs do not care.
If Feenstra takes King down in the primary, he may be difficult to beat in the general given the makeup of the district.

[jaysunb]

6. I'm betting he'll be reelected regardless of party help.n//r