Iowa Starting Line: “After the news broke tonight of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst took to Twitter to express her condolences for the trailblazing jurist. ‘My prayers go out to the family of Justice Ginsburg. She was a pioneer who paved the way for women across America,’ Ernst wrote.”
“Her campaign, however, had been working on something else. A Starting Line reader sent us a text they received from Joni Ernst’s campaign fundraising on the Supreme Court about ten minutes after Ginsburg’s death was announced. ‘The next Supreme Court Justice will be decided by Dems if we lose the White House and the Senate. Help hold the line,’ it read. That linked to a fundraising page for Ernst, which also contained the line, ‘The future of the Supreme Court is on the LINE!'”