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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementProtesters in Minneapolis rose up against their police department this week, taking over a precinct building and , while demonstrations against the killing of , a Black man, by a white police officer, have stretched over several days. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement, Advertisement“You talk to a lot of Republicans in this state privately, and they do think he’s a racist. They’re fed up with it. They just don’t have the guts to say it that much in person.”- Pat Rynard, managing editor at the news site Iowa Starting Line“Our number one political priority for this cycle is to make sure the Senate stays Republican and [Senator Mitch] McConnell is the leader,” Scott Reed, a strategist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, explained to HuffPost. Having a relatively unpopular candidate like King on the ballot this fall in the general election, Reed argued, could depress turnout for Republican Sen. Joni Ernst. Advertisement“Our concern is that he would have been a real albatross around Ernst’s neck,” he said. Asked about why all the anti-King messaging coming from the Chamber and the GOP didn’t mention King’s racism, Reed demurred. “We’re focused about jobs and growth,” he said. “That’s what the Chamber is all about: governing, jobs and growth, and we just stay in our lane. Other groups may make those other points, but we think our lane is about his ineffectiveness, getting kicked off the committee, and really not representing the voters in Iowa Four.” Republican Iowa state Sen. Annette Sweeney, a former King supporter who now supports Feenstra, is also concerned that King could hurt the GOP. “My primary issue is being able to hold the seat,” Sweeney The Associated Press. “It makes it more difficult to do that when he’s lost his committees.” Sweeney, according to the AP, would still only give glancing criticism of King.“His comments at times were just off the cuff,” she said of King, who has routinely made racist statements about minorities. “Sometimes some of them might have been him trying to be funny or cute, though some weren’t. In fact, some were repulsive.”AdvertisementAdvertisementSuggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementProtesters in Minneapolis rose up against their police department this week, taking over a precinct building and , while demonstrations against the killing of , a Black man, by a white police officer, have stretched over several days. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement, Advertisement“You talk to a lot of Republicans in this state privately, and they do think he’s a racist. They’re fed up with it. They just don’t have the guts to say it that much in person.”- Pat Rynard, managing...

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