House Speaker Mike Johnson joined Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn on the campaign trail in Iowa Friday, saying he believed both Iowa Republicans can win reelection in competitive races. Johnson joined Nunn in West Des Moines and Miller-Meeks in Indianola for “get out to vote” rallies, encouraging Iowa voters to show up and cast […]
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Bohannan and Baccam continue to outraise Miller-Meeks and Nunn, but the Republicans have more cash on hand in campaign’s final weeks
Christina Bohannan and Lanon Baccam continue to outraise their incumbent Republican opponents, according to the campaign finance reports published this week by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Bohannan, the Democratic congressional candidate in Iowa’s 1st District, raised $1,887,603 million in the three-month period ending Sept. 30, almost twice as much as two-term incumbent Rep. Mariannette […]
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Iowa Supreme Court affirms decision keeping Libertarian candidates off ballot
Libertarian candidates running for office in three of Iowa’s congressional districts will not appear on the 2024 general election ballot, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The expedited ruling came just one day after the justices heard oral arguments on the case about whether candidates Nicholas Gluba in 1st Congressional District, Marco Battaglia in the […]
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Ad buys supporting Nunn, Miller-Meeks focus on inflation and border security
Iowa Republican congressional candidates and supporters are bumping up campaign advertising in races that Democratic officials have targeted as potential pick-ups in the 2024 general election. While Republican incumbents are favored to win in Iowa’s congressional races, leaders with groups like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the U.S. House Democrats’ campaign arm, have recently announced […]
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Christina Bohannan vows to defend abortion in Iowa State Fair speech
Christina Bohannan, Democratic candidate for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, focused on abortion rights and her opponent’s voting record during a speech Saturday at the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair. This is Bohannan’s second time running against Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District since 2022 when she lost […]
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‘Infertility is bipartisan’: Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan says Rep. Miller-Meeks’ support of embryo ‘personhood’ puts IVF at risk
“You can’t have that both ways,” Christina Bohannan said during an online news conference on Thursday. Bohannan, the Democratic candidate challenging two-term incumbent Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, was referring to the “backtracking” some politicians are doing following a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court declaring that embryos have all the rights […]
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In the new District 1, Democrat Christina Bohannan faces a staunchly anti-abortion, GOP super PAC-supported incumbent
Southeast Iowa has gone from being the 2nd Congressional District to the 1st since Christina Bohannan began running for its U.S. House seat in August 2021. But the major concerns of its residents have remained the same, she said. Inflation and the cost of living has been a constant topic, Bohannan told Little Village. ”When […]
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Former Rep. Jim Leach breaks with the Republican Party, endorses Bohannan for House and Franken for Senate
Jim Leach, who represented Johnson County and much of southeastern Iowa in Congress for 30 years as a Republican, changed his party registration to Democrat ahead of the June 7 primary, the Quad City Times reported on Wednesday. “Today, the Republican Party that I spent so many years with has really let the country down,” […]
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‘I think our democracy is absolutely on the line’: Christina Bohannan talks about why she is running for Congress
Christina Bohannan opened her campaign office in Iowa City on Saturday, with a brief speech about why she is running for Congress in the newly drawn 1st District. “I think we all know there is so much at stake in this election in 2022,” Bohannan, who is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination, told the […]
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Rep. Miller-Meeks’ primary challenger in the 1st Congressional District drops out of race
The Republican primary in Iowa’s new 1st Congressional District ended before it started, as Bettendrof businessman Kyle Kuehl ended his candidacy on Tuesday, leaving incumbent Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks the only Republican running for the seat. Kuehl announced his decision shortly before the State Objection Panel heard a challenge to the validity of the nominating petition […]
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Miller-Meeks will move into the new 1st Congressional District to run for reelection
Two weeks after the Iowa Legislature approved the redistricting maps that changed the boundaries of the state’s congressional districts, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks announced she will move out of her hometown of more than two decades in order to run in the newly drawn 1st Congressional District. The 1st District covers much of the same area […]
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Johnson County and Linn County would be in the same congressional district, if new redistricting map is approved
Johnson County and Linn County would once again be in the same congressional district, if the Iowa Legislature adopts the redistricting map published by the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency (LSA) on Thursday. The two counites had both been part of Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, before the district’s boundaries were redrawn in 2010. In the […]
