Steve King, shown here during a news conference in August 2019, faced criticism for his comments on abortion, including when he questioned whether there would be "any population of the world left" if not for births due to rape and incest.

Steve King, shown here during a news conference in August 2019, faced criticism for his comments on abortion, including when he questioned whether there would be "any population of the world left" if not for births due to rape and incest.

After years of incendiary comments on race and other issues that lost him the support of many Republican Party leaders, conservative Iowa Rep.

Steve King has lost his bid for reelection to a primary challenge by GOP state Sen.

The writing may have been on the wall for King, who President Trump once dubbed "the world's most conservative human being." In his last general election, he scraped by with a margin of just 3% of the vote in his bright red district against Democrat J.D.

Not only did Feenstra raise more than King in the first quarter, he also garnered the high-profile endorsements of former Iowa Gov.

Last year, King wondered out loud to The New York Times why "white nationalist" and "white supremacist" are considered offensive terms.

King did support a House resolution condemning his comments that was passed nearly unanimously in 2019

He's also made incendiary comments on multiculturalism, immigration and abortion, falsely expressing skepticism that a woman could get pregnant as a result of rape or incest