Steve King’s story is one of grit and conviction. Raised in a law enforcement family, he was steeped in the Constitution, the rule of law, and the Bible—values that guided him from a struggling construction business owner to the halls of Congress. He told me how he started with a beat-up bulldozer, a loan from a Democrat banker, and a pregnant wife torquing head bolts in the Iowa dirt. From there, he built a company, entered the Iowa Senate, and eventually won a seat in the U.S. House in 2002. For 18 years, he fought on the Judiciary Committee, the Small Business Committee, and the Ag Committee, becoming a leading voice on issues like border security and the heartbeat bill—a law he authored to protect the unborn from the moment their hearts begin to beat.
But Steve King didn’t just fight the left. He took on the Uniparty—the establishment Republicans like Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy who’d rather play nice with the swamp than stand for what’s right. He showed Congress how to build a wall on the southern border with a model he constructed himself, proving it wasn’t “too hard” despite Ryan’s excuses. He pushed English as the official language, a policy President Trump later enacted by executive order. And he stood firm on life, securing 174 co-sponsors for the heartbeat bill—enough to pass it—until McCarthy killed it in the final weeks of the 2018 session. “Those babies don’t deserve to be executed because of the circumstances of their conception,” King told me. Amen to that.
