Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) was brutally ridiculed by political observers on Saturday after she released an awkward selfie video at a cemetery in response to a recent town hall scandal. The Iowa Republican came under fire at her town hall when she defended rolling back benefits for those she said were not supposed to be eligible for assistance.

Scarborough unloaded on Joni Ernst for her mock apology posted from a graveyard after backlash for a glib Medicaid quip at a town hall Friday. The post Joe Scarborough Unloads on ‘Clueless’ Joni Ernst for Mocking Graveyard Video first appeared on Mediaite.

Democratic Iowa state Rep. J.D. Scholten is launching a run for the U.S. Senate, seeking to take on Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst in 2026.

At a town hall event in Iowa on Friday, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst was asked about planned Medicaid cuts in the “big beautiful” budget bill now in front of the Senate. As Ernst started to answer, a woman in the crowd interrupted,