It's not just so-called "leftist propaganda media" Rep. Steve King is going after — he's also warring with conservative outlets.

The Weekly Standard, a D.C.-based conservative opinion magazine, released a two-minute audio clip of a campaign stop in Webster City, claiming that the representative called Mexican immigrants "dirt."

King, who just won his re-election in Iowa's 4th District, told a Weekly Standard editor to release the full audio tape on Twitter.

They did. The two-minute clip features King talking about growing peppers and needing "dirt from Mexico" to make the peppers hotter. A woman attending the event replied, “Trust me, it’s already on its way."

“Well, yeah, there’s plenty of dirt," King said. "It’s coming from the West Coast, too. And a lot of other places, besides. This is the most dirt we’ve ever seen.”

The audio clip was released after days of back-and-forth between King and the magazine, where he claimed a reporter who wrote about the event last week using the "dirt" comment was lying.

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King's fights with media outlets have escalated in the past few weeks, leading up to his election race against Democrat J.D. Scholten, where King won by roughly 50 percent to Scholten's 47 percent.

He blamed "fake news" for recent controversy over comments on immigration and race at his victory party election night, which the Des Moines Register was banned from attending. Jeff King, who is Steve King’s son and a paid staffer of his campaign, said in an email that the ban was for being a "leftist propaganda media outlet."