# Post ts_117541970492657554

- Post ID: `ts_117541970492657554`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-11-01T15:48:53.738Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is running for the United States Senate in Iowa, a State I love and WON BIG, THREE TIMES, in 2016, 2020, and 2024!
>
> I know Ashley well, and she is a WINNER! A Loving Wife and Proud Mother of two sons, Ashley is a wonderful person, and has ALWAYS delivered for Iowa. Her opponent, Josh Turek, is a Radical Left Maniac who wants to massively raise your Taxes, take a giant cut out of your Social Security check, open your Borders, and let millions of Illegal Aliens loot, rob, and kill in our Country. As a Member of the Iowa State House, Turek voted for Transgender insanity in Iowa schools, and missed nearly 60% of his legislative votes — Lazy Senators don't play well in Iowa! Josh Turek is Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!
>
> On the other hand, Ashley will continue delivering for Iowa in the United States Senate. She is working hard to Create Jobs, Cut Taxes, Promote Products and Services MADE IN AMERICA by our incredible Iowa Workers, Support our Great Farmers and American Agriculture, Champion Innovation, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Murderers, and other Criminals from illegally entering our Country, Strengthen our Military/Veterans, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment.
>
> Ashley Hinson has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next United States Senator from the Great State of Iowa. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR ASHLEY — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
> https://swampthevoteusa.com/iowa/

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-11-01T20:01:03.351Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-11-01T16:27:51.936Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Sixth Iowa endorsement of the morning, built from the campaign template

This is the sixth Iowa endorsement posted on November 1, after Zach Lahn (governor), Brenna Bird, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Joe Mitchell and Zach Nunn. All six use the same structure. An opening line praises the candidate, and three of them also mention the endorser's own Iowa record ("a State I love and WON BIG"). A biographical line follows ("A Loving Wife and Proud Mother of two sons"). Then come a paragraph attacking the opponent and a capitalized policy list that repeats from post to post ("Support our Great Farmers," "Keep our Border SECURE," "Defend our always under siege Second Amendment"). The post ends with the fixed formula "Complete and Total Endorsement," the signature "President DONALD J. TRUMP," and a link to the get-out-the-vote site swampthevoteusa.com. It went up at 15:48 UTC, which is 10:48 a.m. Eastern on a Sunday (daylight saving time ended early that morning). That is mid-morning whether he was in Washington or Florida.

Several features point to staff authorship:
- Whole paragraphs reappear almost word for word in the other five posts.
- The em-dash in "votes — Lazy Senators" and the balanced "On the other hand" transition are polished touches.
- The opposition research is exact. "Missed nearly 60% of his legislative votes" is the Hinson campaign's own 58% figure.
- The post never loses its thread, and nothing in it reacts to something just seen on TV or in the news.

Two touches could be his, either dictated or approved. One is "THREE TIMES," which the otherwise identical Bird opener leaves out. The other is the aside "Lazy Senators don't play well in Iowa!" The capitalization habits ("Taxes," "Borders," "Illegal Aliens") began as his, but his staff now copy them as house style, so they say nothing about who typed the post.

## Idealize one, devalue the other

The post sorts the two candidates into all-good and all-bad. Hinson gets nothing but praise: "a WINNER," "a wonderful person," someone who "has ALWAYS delivered for Iowa" and "WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN." Turek gets only threats: "a Radical Left Maniac," "Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous." The two halves are written to mirror each other, and the hinge between them is the phrase "On the other hand." This splitting is the standard grammar of a campaign endorsement, and it matches the binary the subject uses everywhere else. Because staff wrote it, it shows his public persona more than his state of mind on a Sunday morning.

The most personal line is the opening. Before it says anything about Hinson, an endorsement of someone else turns to "a State I love and WON BIG, THREE TIMES." That self-reference fits his long-running habit of measuring places and people by their relationship to his victories. The vouching line "I know Ashley well" works the same way: her value comes partly from her closeness to him. The trigger is routine campaign maintenance two days before an election, not a narcissistic injury. No rage or wounded tone appears anywhere.

## Where the attack goes beyond the record

The opposition paragraph mixes one documented fact with several stock accusations. The missed-vote figure is accurate for the 2026 session. Turek missed 261 of 445 floor votes (58%) while running for the Senate. His rates in 2023 through 2025 were 5 to 12 percent, though, so "his legislative votes" reads as a career pattern when it describes a single session. "Lazy Senators" pins a Senate label on a state representative, a sloppy mapping that serves the punchline.

The other charges come from a template used against many Democrats this cycle. These are "massively raise your Taxes," "take a giant cut out of your Social Security check," "open your Borders," and "let millions of Illegal Aliens loot, rob, and kill." The last one sets up the post's strongest fear appeal. It turns an immigration-policy disagreement into personal responsibility for murder, and it treats migrants as a group as a criminal mass ("loot, rob, and kill"). "Transgender insanity" casts votes against Iowa's restrictions on gender-identity instruction and civil-rights protections as votes *for* something. That is a reversal of what the votes did.

The archetypes are conventional: the King's endorsement passed to a loyal vassal ("I know Ashley well") and the Warrior's enemy in the opponent. The post defends order. The patriotic hierarchy of "Great Farmers," "incredible Iowa Workers" and veterans goes up, and the opponent and immigrants are pushed into the chaos zone. Turek is named and called "Dangerous," but the only action asked of readers is "GET OUT AND VOTE FOR ASHLEY." The call to mobilize is electoral and implies nothing beyond voting.

The post shows no word-finding, coherence or name problems, and because staff likely wrote it, it would not count as evidence of his own language even if it did.

Sources: [PolitiFact on Turek's missed votes](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/sep/30/ashley-hinson/josh-turek-iowa-senate-house-votes/); [Gray Media review of the House journals](https://www.kcrg.com/2026/08/26/checking-josh-turek-ashley-hinsons-missed-votes-claims-against-each-other/); [Media Bias/Fact Check](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fact-check-did-josh-turek-miss-58-of-iowa-house-votes-in-2026/)

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump won Iowa big three times, in 2016, 2020, and 2024" | **True** | Trump carried Iowa by about 9.4 points in 2016, 8.2 in 2020 and 13.2 in 2024. |
| "Josh Turek missed nearly 60% of his legislative votes" | **Mostly True** | The Iowa House Journals show Turek missed 261 of 445 floor votes (58%) in the 2026 session while campaigning for the Senate, the second-highest rate among the House's 100 members. PolitiFact rated Hinson's version of the claim true. His miss rates in 2023, 2024 and 2025 were 5.4%, 12.2% and 9.8%, so 'his legislative votes' with no time frame makes one session sound like his whole record. |
| "Turek wants to take a giant cut out of your Social Security check" | **Mostly False** | The same line appears almost word for word in endorsement templates aimed at many Democratic candidates this cycle. As a party, Democrats have opposed cutting Social Security benefits. The post links the charge to no Turek proposal or vote. |
| "Turek wants to let millions of illegal aliens loot, rob, and kill in our country" | **False** | This reframes immigration-policy differences as a wish to enable violent crime. No position like this exists in any candidate's platform. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Sixth of six Iowa endorsements posted the same morning, sharing paragraph structure and stock phrases
- Posted 10:48 a.m. Eastern on a Sunday
- Fixed closing formula 'Complete and Total Endorsement' plus 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' signature and campaign URL
- Precise opposition-research figure ('nearly 60%') matching the Hinson campaign's 58% talking point
- Polished em-dash and balanced 'On the other hand' transition

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: assertiveness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** kingmaker vouching for a loyal ally
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Josh Turek as a 'Radical Left Maniac' and absentee legislator

**Identity Claims:**
- Iowa's three-time winner
- Personal guarantor of the candidate ('I know Ashley well')

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Final-weekend endorsement batch before the November 3, 2026 midterms)

Sentiment: +0.15

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- idealization (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Personal vouching ('I know Ashley well')
- Direct second-person address to the reader's wallet and safety ('your Taxes,' 'your Social Security check,' 'your Borders')
- Shared-victory framing ('a State I love and WON BIG')

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-11-01._

> Trump won Iowa big three times, in 2016, 2020, and 2024

**TRUE**

Trump carried Iowa by about 9.4 points in 2016, 8.2 in 2020 and 13.2 in 2024.

> Josh Turek missed nearly 60% of his legislative votes

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The Iowa House Journals show Turek missed 261 of 445 floor votes (58%) in the 2026 session while campaigning for the Senate, the second-highest rate among the House's 100 members. PolitiFact rated Hinson's version of the claim true. His miss rates in 2023, 2024 and 2025 were 5.4%, 12.2% and 9.8%, so 'his legislative votes' with no time frame makes one session sound like his whole record.

Sources: https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/sep/30/ashley-hinson/josh-turek-iowa-senate-house-votes/; https://www.kcrg.com/2026/08/26/checking-josh-turek-ashley-hinsons-missed-votes-claims-against-each-other/; https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fact-check-did-josh-turek-miss-58-of-iowa-house-votes-in-2026/

> Turek wants to take a giant cut out of your Social Security check

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The same line appears almost word for word in endorsement templates aimed at many Democratic candidates this cycle. As a party, Democrats have opposed cutting Social Security benefits. The post links the charge to no Turek proposal or vote.

> Turek wants to let millions of illegal aliens loot, rob, and kill in our country

**FALSE**

This reframes immigration-policy differences as a wish to enable violent crime. No position like this exists in any candidate's platform.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- 2026-midterms (90%)
- iowa-senate (90%)
- aide-template (80%)
- splitting (60%)
- migrant-criminalization (50%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Two days before the vote, Trump says Alaska's 'Fake' Daniel Sullivan has vanished and committed a crime**

Two days before the midterms, almost all of Sunday's posting was campaign machinery. Endorsements that read as written by staff went out in rapid bursts for Kansas and Iowa in the morning. After lunch came nearly the whole Texas Republican slate, district by district, in about half an hour, ahead of his rallies in Iowa and Kansas. His own voice showed up in a handful of posts in between, and they all pushed one idea, that the other side is cheating: he stamped "SCAM!" on Alaska's Senate ballot, passed along a Kansas vote-buying complaint with details the official release didn't support, and declared that the private citizen running in Alaska under the Republican senator's name had committed a crime and disappeared, though no charge has been reported. His Kansas Senate endorsement also tied the Democratic candidate, a well-known pastor, to a child-abuse case, and after a quiet stretch on the road he ended the day by sharing a report that a New York prosecutor says the state attorney general's office told him to go after Trump.

Full digest for 2026-11-01: https://trump.fm/date/2026-11-01/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, November 1). Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is running for the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117541970492657554
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is running for the United..." Truth Social, 1 Nov. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117541970492657554. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is running for the United...," Truth Social, November 1, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117541970492657554.

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