Republican State Senator Rick Bertrand of Sioux City has made it official. He is challenging fellow Republican Steve King in the June Primary in Iowa’s fourth congressional district…
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King was first elected to congress in 2002. Bertrand, who is 46 years old, is a commercial developer from Sioux City who is in the middle of his second term in the Iowa Senate. Congressman King says Bertrand was recruited by “establishment figures” in the G-O-P who are “frustrated they can’t tell King what to do.”
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King and Republican Governor Terry Branstad had a very public falling out right before the Iowa Caucuses. Branstad said he hoped Ted Cruz — the candidate King endorsed — would be defeated. King says he’s waiting to see if GOVERNOR Branstad endorses a candidate in this primary, “then we’ll know” whether the Branstads support him or Bertrand.