Gratitude: Iowa Dem Refuses to ‘Identify With’ Hillary Clinton Two Weeks After She Campaigned for Him

Representative Bruce Braley (D., Iowa), refused to “identify with” Hillary Clinton during a debate with Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst, less than two weeks after Clinton campaigned on his behalf.

“I think that the field hasn’t even shaped up yet, so I don’t even know how you could identify the candidate,” Braley said Sunday evening. “I think one of the things that we want is a candidate to bring us together.”

That comment came after the debate moderator asked ”which of the potential 2016 president candidates do you most identify with.”

One way that Braley could have known how to pick a 2016 candidate: This month, Hillary Clinton visited Iowa, alluded to her potential presidential bid, and told voters to support Braley.

“Clinton made references to farming and the military when he related how Braley’s mother went back to school to get a teaching degree after his father was badly injured in a grain elevator, and how Braley ‘went to bat for Iowa’s National Guard members and won them the pay they deserved,’” the Des Moines Register noted on September 15.

Ernst said that she “would encourage” Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) to run for president.