page_title: Chuck Grassley
section_title: 2016
hierarchical_section_title: Chuck Grassley / Political campaigns / 2016
caption_attribution_description: English: Chuck Grassley speaking at an event in Washington, D.C.
context_page_description: Charles Ernest Grassley is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate, and the senior United States senator from Iowa. He is in his seventh term in the Senate, having first been elected in 1980.
  A member of the Republican Party, Grassley served eight terms in the Iowa House of Representatives and three terms in the United States House of Representatives. He has served three stints as Senate Finance Committee chairman during periods of Republican Senate majority. When Orrin Hatch's Senate term ended on January 3, 2019, Grassley became the most senior Republican in the Senate. He was elected president pro tempore of the Senate for the 116th United States Congress, making him third in the presidential line of succession after the vice president and speaker of the House.
context_section_description: Grassley sought a seventh term in the 2016 election.  Distinct from 2010, he was expected to face a strong challenge from former Democratic lieutenant governor Patty Judge, but he won his seventh term with over 60% of the vote as the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won the state with over 51% of the vote.
caption: Grassley speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.
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