(Radio Iowa) – Incumbent Republican Senator Joni Ernst — locked in a tight battle with Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield – kicked off her final push to reach voters with a rally on her home turf in Red Oak. “My gut is saying really good things about this election cycle here in Iowa,” Ernst says. “It’s been a rough haul, no doubt about it…but I feel good and I’m asking for their support for the next six years.”

Ernst attended, but did not speak at President Trump’s rally Tuesday night in Omaha. Ernst says the thousands there — and at other G-O-P events this fall — show her Republicans are energized about the election. “They’re masked up, they’re enthusiastic,” Ernst says. “They know that it’s different with Covid, but they’re still coming out and being supportive and that’s what I’ve felt all across the state of Iowa, which tells me we’re going to have a good outcome Tuesday evening.”

Ernst will join Vice President Mike Pence at his rally in Des Moines early this (Thursday) afternoon.Her RV tour made stops in Red Oak, Council Bluffs and Atlantic, Wednesday. Ernst’s challenger Theresa Greenfield suspended her own R-V tour yesterday (Wednesday) after some of her campaign staff were around a person who later tested positive for Covid. Greenfield is regularly tested and recently tested negative, according to her campaign spokesman, but has taken a test again to be safe. The campaign had no results to share late Wednesday evening.