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EXCLUSIVE: Hours before Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa kicks off a statewide campaign swing as she runs to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, she landed the backing of the top Senate Republican.

“We need conservative fighters in the Senate — and that’s exactly what we’ll get with Ashley Hinson,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune wrote early Friday as he endorsed Hinson.

And Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which is the campaign arm of the Senate GOP, wrote, “Having traveled Iowa with Ashley, I know she is the fighter the Hawkeye State needs to deliver President Trump’s agenda in 2026 and beyond,” as he and the NRSC backed her.

On the eve of the endorsements and Hinson’s campaign ev

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