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D • Volume 157, Issue 43 • A Lee Enterprises Newspaper • Copyright 2020 Follow us online: facebook.com/SiouxCityJournal twitter.com/SCJ

THE MINI: I am pretty sure Trump’s adviser said, “protect the people.” Not “infect the people.” — Russ Robinson, Sioux City

SUNNY 75 • 41 FORECAST, A3 | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2020 | siouxcityjournal.com

Iowa’s Joni Ernst coasts to second term in U.S. Sen-ate. A7

Nebraska’s Ben Sasse, Adrian Smith easily win reelection. A9

Hansen returns to Iowa Legislature after 20-year ab-sence. A7

Republicans sweep Woodbury County board races. A7

GOP dominates state legislative races in South-east S.D. A8

Two challeng-ers win Dakota County board seats. A6

Congressional re-sults foreshadow gridlock. A2

Siouxland states break voter turn-out records. A4

NobleNighthawkBHRV senior keeps up in stride. SPORTS B1

Election 2020 North Sioux business owners brace for recreational marijuana sales. A8

Ho-Chunk looks to build casinos in South Sioux, Omaha, Lincoln. A6

JONATHAN LEMIRE, AAMER MADHANI, ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN AND ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden won the battleground prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, reclaiming a key part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago and dramatically narrowing President Donald Trump’s path-

way to reelection.A full day after Election Day,

neither candidate had cleared the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. But Biden’s victories in the Great Lakes states left him at 264, mean-ing he was one battleground state away from crossing the threshold and becoming president-elect.

Biden, who has received more than 71 million votes, the most in history, was joined by his running mate Kamala Harris at an after-noon news conference and said he now expected to win the pres-idency, though he stopped short of outright declaring victory.

“I will govern as an American president,” Biden said. ”There will be no red states and blue states when we win. Just the United States of America.”

It was a stark contrast to Trump, who on Wednesday falsely pro-claimed that he had won the election, even though millions of votes remained uncounted and the race was far from over.

The Associated Press called Wisconsin for Biden after elec-tion o� cials in the state said all outstanding ballots had been counted, save for a few hundred

Biden reclaims ‘blue wall’

JESSE BROTHERS, SIOUX CITY JOURNAL

State Sen. Randy Feenstra, Republican candidate for Congress in Iowa’s 4th District, center, checks the election results in his kitchen with his fi eld director Courtney Craig, left, campaign manager Matt Leopold, behind, political director Emily Schwickerath, and his son Taylor Feenstra, right, Tuesday night at his home in Hull, Iowa. Feenstra easily won the election.

Feenstra routs ScholtenBRET HAYWORTHbhayworth@siouxcityjournal.com

SIOUX CITY — In two months, a new legislative career for Re-publican Randy Feenstra be-gins, as he becomes a member of Congress, representing 36 more

counties than he now does as a state senator.

Following his dominating win of the Iowa 4th Congressional District seat as Tuesday marked the end of a month of voting, Feenstra will shift the scope of his legislative role from state to federal issues, once he’s sworn in Jan. 3.

Feenstra, who had the en-

dorsement of President Donald Trump, took the election win by defeating J.D. Scholten, a Dem-ocrat from Sioux City, who was running for the second election cycle in a row. Feenstra won in a rout, getting 62 percent of the vote, and topping the vote of Scholten in 38 of the 39 district counties, with Story County be-ing the outlier.

He received 236,852 votes, while Scholten trailed with 144,344.

By comparison, Scholten lost to U.S. Rep. Steve King by only 3 percent in 2018, when he won six counties, including the fi ve most populous: Woodbury, Cerro Gordo, Story, Webster

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Neither candidate yet at 270 electoral votes; Trump sues

MATT SLOCUM, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chester County, Pa. election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots for the 2020 general election in the United States at West Chester University on Wednesday in West Chester, Pa.

STATE SENATOR WINS IOWA 4TH DISTRICT RACE

Republican candidate to succeed Steve King

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