Iowa state Rep. JD Scholten has launched a challenge against Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, after she mocked constituents who were concerned about people dying from the GOP’s planned cuts to Medicaid, saying, “We’re all going to die.”
Scholten, a minor league baseball pitcher for the Sioux City Explorers, is pitching himself as a “Lina Khan Democrat,” hoping that the former FTC commissioner’s brand of antitrust populism can help him flip a seat in the Midwest.
