DES MOINES, Iowa - Nine term U.S. Congressman Steve King has lost his bid for re-election in Iowa's District 4 Republican primary election.
State Senator Randy Feenstra won the contest in the heavily Republican region of the Iowa with with 46 percent (36,797 votes). King came in second in the four person race with 36 percent of the vote (28,977).
King only won the congressional seat in 2018 by three percent. His tenure in Congress has been marked by controversial comments that some have called racist. He was stripped of all his committee assignments in Congress in 2019 by Republican leadership after he was quoted questioning why ‘white supremacy’ is a negative term.
Feenstra will face J. D. Scholten in the general election. Scholten ran unopposed. He narrowly lost ti King in the 2018 election.