Candidates battle for Iowa’s newly redrawn 1st Congressional District seat

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) – There’s a barely new look to the Iowa congressional maps this election cycle.

Scott County, and the encompassing Iowa QCA, has shifted from District 2 to District 1. As we transfer nearer to election day, the race for that U.S. Home seat is beginning to warmth up.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks is the incumbent from the outdated District 2. She defeated Rita Hart in that 2020 race by a razor-thin margin of 6 votes. Miller-Meeks says whereas attending to all elements of the district is usually a problem, her messaging to voters stays the identical.

“I’m not a present horse, I’m a piece horse,” Miller-Meeks mentioned. “I prefer to execute and get issues completed.”

Her challenger is Christina Bohannan, a regulation professor on the College of Iowa and state consultant for District 85. Bohannan believes her time within the Iowa State Home has ready her for a profession on Capitol Hill.

“I ran towards a 20-year incumbent in my very own social gathering once I thought neither republicans or democrats had been doing sufficient for folks,” Bohannan mentioned. “I’ve actually discovered to work nicely with the opposite social gathering to get issues completed.”

Each candidates notice this 12 months’s race is shaping as much as be a decent one like 2020, and each have robust messages for his or her potential voters.

“If you wish to see this nation get heading in the right direction, if you wish to see somebody tackle excessive costs, excessive crime and open border, an schooling system that’s failing our most susceptible, I’m the particular person you wish to vote for,” says Miller-Meeks.

“Why can’t we’ve representatives who will simply go to Washington and work for us,” Bohannan asks. “That’s what I’ll do.”

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