When Senator Joni Ernst first won her seat in Iowa in 2014, there was a lot of excitement. She was a fresh face who demonstrated the ability to win in what was at the time a swing state. She is a decorated veteran. Her harsh criticism of Barack Obama echoed the Tea Party sentiment of the GOP.
The first alarm bell started ringing when she endorsed Senator Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination for President in 2016. Her NeoCon, RINO leanings continued to emerge and have culminated with an unhinged battle against Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense.
Sean Davis from The Federalist noted on Friday that her Chief of Staff, Lisa Goeas, may be the puppet master pulling Ernst’s strings as she continues to make horrible decision after horrible decision:
I’m beginning to hear serious rumblings that the big problem in Joni Ernst’s office is not Ernst, but her chief of staff Lisa Goeas.
A former lobbyist and non-Iowan, Goeas is apparently behind the bulk of Ernst’s string of terrible decisions of late, including the George Floyd nonsense, transgender military insanity, Lloyd Austin/Merrick Garland support, and the anti-Hegseth jihad that now has the potential to end Ernst’s political career in Iowa.
Goeas, who is married to pollster Ed Goeas, was recently celebrated as a major Washington “power player” by Politico and was photographed at Mar-a-Lago living it up with Trump and Elon Musk before deciding to go to war against Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon.
Many close to President Trump are deeply suspicious that Ernst can be trusted on initiatives like DOGE give Ernst’s and Goeas’s behind-the-scenes efforts to knife Hegseth.
I’m beginning to hear serious rumblings that the big problem in Joni Ernst’s office is not Ernst, but her chief of staff Lisa Goeas.
A former lobbyist and non-Iowan, Goeas is apparently behind the bulk of Ernst’s string of terrible decisions of late, including the George Floyd… pic.twitter.com/B5rCZgjUMv
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 6, 2024
Some are suggesting the only way she can salvage her once-promising political career is to immediately end her war with Hegseth, but as I noted on my latest podcast, it’s too late. She’s far beyond redemption and should be primaried during her next election in 2026.
