Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst raised her profile with pig castration ad . and he started a paper route in third grade , facts that Braley hopes can beat back a narrative that Republicans seized on after his rhetorical stumbles : that he 's a Washington creature now who ca n't relate to Iowans . The ad, which aired in Iowa, featured a man who had been castrated as an infant. In the moderate state , Ernst might lean too far to the right , Braley too far to the left .
Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst raised her profile with pig castration ad . The ad, which aired in Iowa, featured a man who had been castrated as an infant. In the moderate state , Ernst might lean too far to the right , Braley too far to the left .