Joni Ernst Gets a Democratic Challenger

“After Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told a town hall audience, ‘We’re all going to die,’ when responding to constituents’ concerns about Medicaid cuts, Democratic state Rep. J.D. Scholten — who has been publicly flirting with a run against the GOP incumbent — decided to launch his campaign,” Politico reports.

Said Scholten: “I just felt, you know, I have to do this. Now’s the time, and rather than being perfect with everything, I just feel like you got to do it.”