The ATTEMPTED rating is upheld. Ernst genuinely pursued the promise through the normal legislative process by sponsoring the ELECT Act (S.3225, 116th Congress, "Eliminating Leftover Expenses for Campaigns from Taxpayers Act of 2020"), which terminates the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, and by repeatedly reintroducing it — including again in February 2025 — but the bill never passed or was enacted, so the fund was never eliminated and no balance was ever redirected to the national debt. The KCRG source (Feb 17, 2025) was fully reachable and the cited quote appears verbatim: it documents Ernst introducing the ELECT Act to eliminate the fund, that ~$400 million remains in the fund, and that the remaining money would pay down the national debt — and it makes clear the bill was only introduced (not passed). The continued existence of the fund with ~$400M as of Feb 2025, plus the need to reintroduce the bill, is concrete proof the objective was not achieved. The outcome (within-process legislative failure) is not overstated and matches ATTEMPTED rather than FULL/CHAMPIONED (never enacted) or IGNORED/ABSTAINED (she was the active lead sponsor).