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"It's not about the ideas. It became about the person," said Sarah Chamberlain, president and chief executive of Republican Main Street Partnership, whose affiliated super PAC spent $100,000 to oust King. "A lot of his ideas have been adopted by the Republican Party. His rhetoric has not been, though."

"...the Defending Main Street super PAC also flooded the race with money going after King."

Sarah Chamberlain, the Defending Main Street's treasurer, said they identified Feenstra as a good fit for the district early and brought him into their training school. Chamberlain called the mix of Feenstra as a candidate and King's lack of clout "almost a perfect storm."

"The Republican establishment coalesced around Feenstra beginning in January, when the Republican Main Street Partnership PAC became the first national GOP organization to publicly endorse and financially support him."

"We wanted to make sure that Steve King would not be a drag on her, especially with the suburban people,” said Sarah Chamberlain, president and chief executive of the Republican Main Street Partnership."

“King has been an unviable and ineffective representative for over a year now,” said Sarah Chamberlain, Defending Main Street treasurer, in a statement. “Our party cannot afford to keep members of Congress whose rhetoric is so unrepresentative of the governing Republican tradition. Both Iowa and the Republican Party will benefit from a return to the strong, focused conservatism Randy Feenstra has to offer.”

"The Republican Main Street Partnership, which supports moderate Republicans, is backing Feenstra — the first time the organization has opposed a GOP incumbent."
"We don't like to do this," Sarah Chamberlain, president and CEO of the partnership, told NBC News. But King "doesn't sit on any committees and he can't do anything for the people of Iowa."

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“Everybody knows those (comments), and they probably ignore most of them. But to hit him on the representation side, I thought, was much more powerful,” said Sarah Chamberlain, treasurer of Defending Main Street, a super PAC that has spent $100,000 on a dozen mail pieces and voter outreach."

" ...the political arm of the Republican Main Street Partnership ran $100,000 worth of mailers, calls and online outreach. “We feel so strongly that this is the first time we’ve ever gone against a sitting member," said Sarah Chamberlain, the president of the Republican Main Street Partnership. "Some of the things he says are just not helpful."

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