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Ernst campaigned in the Republican U.S. Senate primary with the claim "I'll know how to cut pork".<ref>Strong, Jonathan (March 24, 2014).  [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/24/ia-candidate-touts-hog-castrating-experience-for-cutting-pork-barrel-spending/ "Senate candidate:  I'll use my hog castrating experience to help end pork barrel spending"].  Breitbart.  Retrieved on January 16, 2014</ref>

Ernst campaigned in the Republican U.S. Senate primary with the claim "I'll know how to cut pork".<ref>Strong, Jonathan (March 24, 2014).  [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/24/ia-candidate-touts-hog-castrating-experience-for-cutting-pork-barrel-spending/ "Senate candidate:  I'll use my hog castrating experience to help end pork barrel spending"].  Breitbart.  Retrieved on January 16, 2014</ref>

Ernst received 52% of the vote in November 2014, while her Democratic opponent received only 44%. In her victory, she swept 85 of Iowa's 99 counties.<ref>Pate, Paul D. [Iowa Secretary of State] (December 29, 2014). [http://electionresults.sos.iowa.gov/Views/TabularData.aspx?TabView=StateRaces^Federal%20/%20Statewide%20Races^84&ElectionID=84 "November 4, 2014 general election"]. ''Iowa Secretary of State website.'' Retrieved on January 15, 2015.</ref> She was later chosen to give the rebuttal to the president [[Barack Obama]]'s State of the Union address in 2015.

She received 52% of the vote in November 2014, while her Democrat opponent Bruce Braley received only 44%. In her victory, she swept 85 of Iowa's 99 counties.<ref>Pate, Paul D. [Iowa Secretary of State] (December 29, 2014). [http://electionresults.sos.iowa.gov/Views/TabularData.aspx?TabView=StateRaces^Federal%20/%20Statewide%20Races^84&ElectionID=84 "November 4, 2014 general election"]. ''Iowa Secretary of State website.'' Retrieved on January 15, 2015.</ref> She was later chosen to give the rebuttal to the president [[Barack Obama]]'s State of the Union address in 2015.

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