Iowa native Bryan Kraber will lead Joni Ernst's reelection bid as campaign manager, Ernst announced June 4 in a news release.

Sen. Joni Ernst told reporters in 2024 that she intended to seek a third term but has not formally launched a reelection campaign.

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst appears to be getting closer to announcing another re-election bid. Her campaign announced that Bryan Kraber will be the campaign manager for Ernst’s 2026 re-election. Kraber was a part of the senator’s 2020 re-election campaign.

Ernst, a Republican, posted a video to her Instagram story on Saturday, May 31, where she spoke directly to camera about the incident

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Wednesday knocked Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) over the controversy surrounding her “we’re all going to die” remarks about Medicaid, and a sarcastic apology video she later released from what appeared to be a graveyard.

At a town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa last week, Senator Joni Ernst made a chilling admission—one that didn’t need to be said aloud, because her party's legislative actions already scream it loud and clear.

Democratic Iowa state Rep. J.D. Scholten is launching a run for the U.S. Senate, seeking to take on Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst in 2026.

Scarborough unloaded on Joni Ernst for her mock apology posted from a graveyard after backlash for a glib Medicaid quip at a town hall Friday. The post Joe Scarborough Unloads on ‘Clueless’ Joni Ernst for Mocking Graveyard Video first appeared on Mediaite.