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Republican Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has successfully fended disconnected Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan successful the contention for the state's 1st Congressional District, The Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Miller-Meeks has served successful the U.S. House since 2021, and presently represents the state’s 1st Congressional District, which includes cities specified arsenic Davenport and Iowa City successful the southeastern information of the state.
She flipped her spot from bluish to reddish successful 2020 and saw this year’s contention determination from a "likely" triumph for Republicans to a toss-up. She won her 2020 contention by a slim borderline of conscionable six votes but expanded that vantage successful 2022.
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Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, speaks during a municipality hallway lawsuit successful Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Miller-Meeks fended disconnected a GOP superior challenger earlier successful the rhythm who accused her of voting "against you and the Republican level implicit 40% of the time," portion she pitched herself to voters arsenic a "proven conservative."
The Iowa Republican received endorsements from the Trump orbit amid her predetermination cycle, including erstwhile Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell and erstwhile Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
"There is nary amended blimpish combatant for Iowa's First Congressional District than Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks. I americium arrogant to endorse and service beside Mariannette to present for the American radical and assistance claw backmost disastrous policies from the Biden administration," House Speaker Mike Johnson said successful his endorsement of Miller-Meeks earlier successful the predetermination cycle.
Miller-Meeks is simply a doc and subject seasoned who served successful the U.S. Army for 24 years earlier retiring arsenic a lieutenant colonel.
Former Iowa authorities Rep. Christina Bohannan. (Iowa Legislature )
Democratic challenger Bohannon is simply a instrumentality prof astatine the University of Iowa College of Law, who antecedently served successful the Iowa authorities House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023. She campaigned connected making the Iowa nationalist schoolhouse strategy top-rate nationally, instituting "common-sense weapon laws," warring to "put Roe v. Wade back into national law" and vowing to "work with anyone to unafraid the border."
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The brace sparred during a statement past period that included exchanges connected termination and the economy, arsenic good arsenic migration reform. Miller-Meeks, akin to Republicans crossed the nation, pinned blasted for the amerciable migration situation connected the Biden-Harris medication pursuing erstwhile President Donald Trump's White House borderline policies.
"Trump-era policies that reduced the magnitude of amerciable immigrants coming crossed our border, that helped to support down the magnitude of amerciable drugs, amerciable fentanyl, that our customs and borderline protections agents really felt similar they were doing their job," Miller-Meeks said during the debate.
Bohannan argued that a bipartisan portion of authorities this twelvemonth that would person addressed the borderline but argued Republicans "killed it." Republicans person said the immigration measure would person further worsened the crisis, and that the authorities was fundamentally dormant connected arrival.
The U.S.-Mexico borderline partition successful Sasabe, Ariz. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)
"We had a aureate accidental precocious to walk the strictest borderline information measure that we person seen successful this state successful a precise agelong time, possibly ever. And Rep. Miller-Meeks and her enactment successful the House killed it," Bohannan said past month.
Miller-Meeks antecedently defeated Bohannan in the 2022 wide election, 53% to 47%. The 1st territory arsenic a full went for Trump successful the 2020 election, voting for him by astir 3 percent points implicit President Biden.
Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
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