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Join Telegram ChannelIowa Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks successfully fended off Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan in the race for the state's 1st Congressional District, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Miller-Meeks has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021 and currently represents the state's 1st Congressional District, which includes cities such as Davenport and Iowa City in the southeastern part of the state.
She flipped her seat from blue to red in 2020 and saw this year's race go from a “likely” victory for Republicans to a toss-up. She won her 2020 race by a narrow margin of just six votes, but expanded that advantage in 2022.
REPRESENTATIVE. MILLER-MEEKS FENDS CONSERVATIVE PRIMARY CHALLENGE IN IOWA RACE
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, speaks at a town hall event in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Miller-Meeks fended off a GOP primary challenger earlier in the cycle who accused her of voting “against you and the Republican platform more than 40 percent of the time” as she presented herself to voters as a “proven conservative”.
The Iowa Republican received support from the Trump orbit during her election cycle, including 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 1st Congressional District than Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks. I am proud to support and serve alongside Mariannette to serve the American people and help recover the disastrous policies of the Biden administration,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson. said in her support for Miller-Meeks earlier in the election cycle.
Miller-Meeks is a physician and military veteran who served in the U.S. Army for 24 years before retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
Christina Bohannan, former Iowa State Representative. (Iowa Legislature)
Democratic challenger Bohannon is a law professor at the University of Iowa School of Law who previously served in the Iowa State House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023. She campaigned for Iowa's public school system is nationally first-rate by instituting “common sense.” gun laws”, fighting to “return Roe v. Wade into federal law” and pledging to “work with anyone to secure the border.”
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The two men clashed in a debate last month that included exchanges on abortion and the economy, as well as immigration reform. Miller-Meeks, like Republicans across the country, has placed blame for the illegal immigration crisis on the Biden-Harris administration, following former President Donald Trump's border policies. White House.
“The Trump-era policies that reduced the number of illegal immigrants crossing our border, that helped reduce the amount of illegal drugs, illegal fentanyl, that our Customs and Border Protection agents actually had “feel like they're doing their job,” Miller said. Meeks said during the debate.
Bohannan argued for a bipartisan bill this year that would have addressed the border, but argued that Republicans “killed” it. Republicans said the immigration bill would have made the crisis even worse and that the legislation was essentially dead on arrival.
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The US-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Arizona. (Valérie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)
“We recently had a golden opportunity to pass the strongest border security bill we've seen in this country in a very long time, maybe ever. And Rep. Miller-Meeks and her party the House killed him,” Bohannan said last month. .
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Miller-Meeks previously defeated Bohannan in the 2022 general election, 53% to 47%. The 1st District as a whole voted for Trump in the 2020 election, voting for him by about three percentage points over President Biden.
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Adam Shaw of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.