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Earlier this week, Republicans announced that Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds would deliver the official GOP response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
But in search of more information about Reynolds, I reached out to Brianne Pfannenstiel, the chief politics reporter at the Des Moines Register. Our conversation -- conducted via email and lightly edited for flow -- is below.
Cillizza: Why Reynolds? What appealed to national Republicans about her?
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