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Morning Digest: The first poll of the Iowa Senate race gives Chuck Grassley just a 7-point edge

Leading Off: ● IA-Sen: In the first-ever poll of Iowa’s Senate race, conducted a week after former Lt. Gov. Patty Judge won the Democratic primary, PPP finds veteran GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley leading her by a less-than-dominant 48-41 margin. While we don’t have any other data to directly compare these numbers to this cycle, we can take a look at Grassley’s very long electoral history, and in that…

Illinois Rep. Brad Schneider is under attack from his opponent Bob Dold for supporting Obamacare and thus voting for massive cuts to Medicare. Of course this isn’t true, Politifact has said so dozens of times. Schneider supports Obamacare because the people of Illinois, and America, are better off when they have access to affordable and quality healthcare. 

So Schneider doesn’t want to cut Medicare. But what about his opponent? Dold has voted for Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget on several occasions, the same budget that seeks to voucherize Medicare. And Dold recently welcomed Ryan to Chicago to help him raise money for his campaign.