'Tonight Show' calls politician's hog castration quip

Comedian Jimmy Fallon tried to play Iowa Republican Joni Ernst's new campaign advertisement on The Tonight Show Tuesday night, but couldn't make it past her first line."Hi, I'm Joni Ernst. I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm," she says in the debut TV ad of her U.S. Senate campaign, which was released online Tuesday morning.

As Fallon's audience starts to laugh at the gruesome thought and Ernst's obvious pride in her knife-wielding skills, Fallon says, "Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Do you want to do one more take? ... I don't know what she's running for, but just give her the job!"

Ernst, a 43-year-old state senator from the southwest Iowa town of Red Oak, wants to replace retiring Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin. She's one of five GOP candidates who are struggling to gain a foothold in the race. A recent Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showed none has made much of an impression in GOP circles, as the June 3 primary vote approaches.In the ad, Ernst vowed to use her hog-castrating savvy to "make 'em squeal" in Washington.The full quote goes: "I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm. So when I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork. Washington's full of big spenders.Table Place Setting as a 3D Carving Let's make 'em squeal."

On Monday, statistician Nate Silver wrote on his fivethirtyeight   website that Iowa Democrats have a 75 percent probability of holding onto Harkin's seat. Silver accurately predicted the outcome in every state in the 2012 presidential race.U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley of Waterloo is the lone Democrat seeking the Iowa seat.

On the GOP side, Ernst is competing against a wealthy former Texas utilities company executive, Mark Jacobs, who began spending money for radio, network TV and cable TV ads before Christmas. Despite that advertising, the Register's poll a month ago found that 67 percent of voting-age Republicans in Iowa were still unsure who Jacobs is. Three other competitors - Des Moines lawyer Matt Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney; Sam Clovis, a Sioux City-area conservative radio talk show host and college professor; and Ames car dealership manager Scott Schaben - have not yet done any advertising, which is key to boosting voters' familiarity with a candidate.

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Ernst's "squeal" ad begins airing on cable TV in the Des Moines area this week, on Thursday at the latest, campaign aides told The Des Moines Register. The ad buy will expand in coming weeks, they said.

In the ad, which features some pigs snoozing in wooden pens, Ernst says: "My parents taught us to live within our means. It's time to force Washington to do the same - to cut wasteful spending, repeal Obamacare, and balance the budget."

In a news release, the campaign said Ernst supports a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution; repealing "Bruce Braley's Obamacare" and replacing it with "common-sense, market-driven solutions"; lowering taxes "on hardworking families and small businesses"; and ultimately scrapping the current tax code and replacing it "with a pro-growth tax system that is fairer, flatter and simpler."

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