"Senator Ernst would've voted to shut down the federal government with Ted Cruz. She's called President Obama a dictator and thinks impeachment should be on the table," Braley said.

Ernst's best moment, "was the challenge to Braley, in effect, 'You're not running against these outside groups – you are running against me.'"
Braley's best moments were his challenge to Ernst to support bipartisan immigration reform, and a resolute answer to how the president can gather global allies against terrorist threats," Kedron Bardwell, an associate professor of political science at Simpson College in Indianola Des Monies Register