Republican Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has efficiently fended off Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan within the race for the state’s 1st Congressional District, The Related Press reported Wednesday.
Miller-Meeks has served within the U.S. Home since 2021, and at present represents the state’s 1st Congressional District, which incorporates cities corresponding to Davenport and Iowa Metropolis within the southeastern portion of the state.
She flipped her seat from blue to crimson in 2020 and noticed this 12 months’s race transfer from a “likely” victory for Republicans to a toss-up. She received her 2020 race by a slim margin of simply six votes however expanded that benefit in 2022.
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Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, speaks throughout a city corridor occasion in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Pictures)
Miller-Meeks fended off a GOP major challenger earlier within the cycle who accused her of voting “against you and the Republican platform over 40% of the time,” whereas she pitched herself to voters as a “proven conservative.”
The Iowa Republican acquired endorsements from the Trump orbit amid her election cycle, together with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell and former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“There is no better conservative fighter for Iowa’s First Congressional District than Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks. I am proud to endorse and serve beside Mariannette to deliver for the American people and help claw back disastrous policies from the Biden administration,” Home Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned in his endorsement of Miller-Meeks earlier within the election cycle.
Miller-Meeks is a health care provider and navy veteran who served within the U.S. Military for twenty-four years earlier than retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
Former Iowa state Rep. Christina Bohannan. (Iowa Legislature )
Democratic challenger Bohannon is a regulation professor on the College of Iowa School of Legislation, who beforehand served within the Iowa state Home of Representatives from 2021 to 2023. She campaigned on making the Iowa public college system top-rate nationally, instituting “common-sense gun laws,” preventing to “put Roe v. Wade back into federal law” and vowing to “work with anyone to secure the border.”
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The pair sparred throughout a debate final month that included exchanges on abortion and the economic system, in addition to immigration reform. Miller-Meeks, just like Republicans throughout the nation, pinned blame for the unlawful immigration disaster on the Biden-Harris administration following former President Donald Trump’s White Home border insurance policies.
“Trump-era policies that reduced the amount of illegal immigrants coming across our border, that helped to keep down the amount of illegal drugs, illegal fentanyl, that our customs and border protections agents actually felt like they were doing their job,” Miller-Meeks mentioned throughout the debate.
Bohannan argued {that a} bipartisan piece of laws this 12 months that might have addressed the border however argued Republicans “killed it.” Republicans have mentioned the immigration invoice would have additional worsened the disaster, and that the laws was primarily useless on arrival.
The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Ariz. (Valerie Macon/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
“We had a golden opportunity recently to pass the strictest border security bill that we have seen in this country in a very long time, maybe ever. And Rep. Miller-Meeks and her party in the House killed it,” Bohannan mentioned final month.
Miller-Meeks beforehand defeated Bohannan within the 2022 basic election, 53% to 47%. The first district as a complete went for Trump within the 2020 election, voting for him by about three proportion factors over President Biden.
Fox Information Digital’s Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
