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Republicans get bad news in Iowa as they fail to boot spoiler candidate
Iowa’s GOP Problem Isn’t the Libertarian on the Ballot. It’s the Republican LabelBallot Access as Damage ControlRepublicans in Iowa tried to remove Libertarian Thomas Laehn from the U.S. Senate ballot and failed. That is the first fact that matters. The second is that Ashley Hinson’s camp is now facing a problem of its own making: a party that cannot keep its coalition together is trying to treat ballot access as a substitute for political competence.Laura Belin’s reporting makes the structure plain. Laehn stays on the ballot, and Republicans could not find a legal basis to knock him off…
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