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‘Castrating hogs’ farm girl is Trump VP candidate

But still insists she’s focused on Iowa and the Senate

By Bill Brown
Farms.com Media

A “biscuit-eating, gun-shooting, twangy, twinkly farm girl and mother” is a candidate for vice-president on the Donald Trump Republican ticket leading up to the Nov. 8 election.

Trump recently met with Iowa junior senator Joni Ernst, fuelling speculation that she may be the choice to help close the narrowing gap between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. (A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll now has Clinton leading by just five percentage points.)

With the GOP convention in Cleveland approaching, Ernst is being touted as a possibility, with mainstream media likely to focus on her rural background – which may balance the presumptive nominee’s Manhattan roots.

Joni Ernst

As reported yesterday by POLITICO, Ernst is still saying she’s just not that into a VP nomination. (“I made it very clear to him that I’m focused on Iowa.”) Yet that type of hard-to-get posturing is common at this stage in many campaigns.

Ernst first gained widespread recognition in 2014 when she starred in “Squeal,” a TV commercial in which she told voters “I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm.”

Over a hog-squealing soundtrack, Ernst closes the ad stating “Washington’s full of big spenders; let’s make ‘em squeal!”


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