“It was the White House switchboard. I was a little embarrassed that I’d been rejecting the president’s calls.”
— Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), in an interview on WHO Radio, explaining how she ignored phone calls from an unknown number after she had won the U.S. Senate race.
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