Incumbent Rep. Steve King Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was defeated in the GOP primary on Tuesday, Axios reports, citing the Cook Political Report.
State Sen. Randy Feenstra defeated King in Tuesday’s Republican primary for Iowa’s 4th congressional district, according to the report.
King’s history of racist remarks has made him one of the most controversial politicians in the country and a pariah within the Republican Party.
House Republican leadership stripped the nine-term congressman of his committee assignments in 2019 after he questioned in an interview with the New York Times how the terms “white nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization” became offensive.
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The big picture: The Republican establishment coalesced around Feenstra beginning in January, when the Republican Main Street Partnership PAC became the first national GOP organization to publicly endorse and financially support him.
Feenstra’s victory will likely move the seat into safe Republican territory for the general election in November.
