STORM LAKE, Iowa — The Republicans in Des Moines and Washington are doing what they can to run away from and run off Representative Steve King, the Republican from my district, for yet more of his outlandish remarks over white supremacy, nationalism and western civilization — remarks that simply echo things he has said many times over the past two decades in my paper, The Storm Lake Times.

But the voters along the county blacktops and gravel roads of Northwest Iowa, most of them Republicans, are hanging tough with the congressman, who was r ecently stripped of his seats on the House Agriculture and Judiciary Committees .

A Republican state senator, Randy Feenstra, a professor at Dordt College with solid Christian conservative credentials , has said he will challenge Mr. King in the 2020 primary. Mr. Feenstra said he stands with President Trump but is not as “caustic” as Mr. King and will not embarrass ever-polite Iowans. Other Republicans are pondering primary runs , too, thinking that condemnation at the hands of the party elite may give them a rare opening.

Not so fast. Mr. King may be wounded, but he remains popular here.

“They can’t change my mind about him,” said Cathy Greenfield, a dog groomer adamantly opposed to abortion who lives with her husband, Larry, a teacher and auto body mechanic, in the village of Fonda, just east of here. “The left has been after him forever. I don’t think he’s a racist. I think he will be successful.”