A state that had been trending heavily toward the GOP is looking potentially competitive again, in part thanks to the senator’s gaffe.

Ernst, an Iowa Republican, joked that she thought her constituents 'understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth.'

One of the reasons politicians don’t often engage in massive overhauls of the American economy is that it’s very difficult to defend a massive overhaul of the American economy. However good any given plan is,