KING READY FOR SIXTH TERM

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN STEVE KING IS HEADED BACK TO WASHINGTON FOR A 6TH TERM. KING DEFEATED DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER CHRISTIE VILSACK FOR THE SEAT REPRESENTING IOWA'S NEW 4TH DISTRICT:



KING TOOK PART IN SEVEN DEBATES WITH VILSACK. IT WAS THE 1ST TIME SINCE HIS INITIAL CAMPAIGN IN 2002 THAT HE HAD DEBATED AN OPPONENT:



VILSACK HAS DECLINED TO DO INTERVIEWS SINCE THE RACE WAS DECIDED. HER SPOKESMAN, SAM ROECKER, SAYS GETTING KING TO DEBATE HER WAS A VICTORY AND THEY RAN THE BEST RACE THEY COULD:



ROECKER SAYS VILSACK IS PROUD OF THE RACE THAT SHE RAN AGAINST KING.

Radio Iowa contributed this report