If Chuck Grassley, Iowa's incumbent senator, runs for reelection in 2022, the seat is safe for Republicans. If he retires, they'll have a battle on their hands.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is under pressure to save his party from defending yet another open seat as it labors to retake the majority. | Tom Williams-Pool/Getty ImagesOSSIAN, Iowa — Chuck Grassley still gets up at 4 a.m. every day and often goes for a 2-mile run. The 87-year-old does push-ups, too.
Any Republican could retire and be proud of that kind of career. But Grassley might not be ready to call it quits. “He’s getting a lot of encouragement,” said Senate Minority Whip John Thune. “He is the best path we have to keep the seat in Republican hands and take it off the map.” Senators in both parties say Grassley is sharp as a ginsu knife and his health appears impeccable. He dismisses questions about his age or aptitude, either with a push-up challenge — which makes doubters look silly — or a defense of his record. No whispered questions about acuity follow him, the way they have Feinstein or the late Sen. Thad Cochran .“The general feeling of probably the public, on maybe both sides, is that he should retire.
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