The 87 year old senior Senate Republican from Iowa tweeted the confirmation earlier today.
“I’ve tested positive for coronavirus,” Grassley wrote. “I’ll (be) following my doctors’ orders/CDC guidelines & continue to quarantine. I’m feeling good + will keep up on my work for the ppl of Iowa from home. I appreciate everyone’s well wishes + prayers &look fwd to resuming my normal schedule soon.”
A Loras College poll released Thursday had the Iowa lawmaker in a statistical dead heat against Patty Judge, his Democratic challenger. Grassley led by only one point, 46-45, against the former lieutenant governor. That nominal advantage was well within the poll’s four-point margin or error.
Public Policy Polling, a left-leaning firm, released a survey earlier last week showing Grassley with a 7-point lead. But even that margin hardly suggests safety for the incumbent.
“When I see a poll like the Loras poll or the [Public Polling Policy] poll, if I’m Grassley that makes me nervous. …That’s trouble,” said David Peterson, a political science professor at Iowa State University and editor of the academic journal Political Behavior. “I think he’s clearly more vulnerable than he’s been in past elections.”
Democrats and outside groups pounced on the polling.
Judge’s campaign blasted out the Loras College poll, noting Grassley “is consistently polling in the 40s for the first time since his election to the Senate in the 1980s.”
“We’re obviously excited about that poll,” Sam Roecker, Judge’s campaign manager, told The Hill. “This is unprecedented for Chuck Grassley.”
Senator Chuck Grassley took to the Twitter machine yesterday and called the President of the United States, “stupid.” Mr. Grassley – the Republican Senator from Iowa – is just one of a long and growing list of elected officials who take pleasure in disrespecting the Office of the Presidency… well, maybe just the office of this particular presidency.
Here is the interpretation of the Grassley tweet below (for those who are not a 16 years old).
Constituents asked why I am not outraged at President Obama’s attack on the Supreme Court independence. Because American people are not stupid as this ex-professor of Constitution Law.
