Both candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives District 1 were in Pella ahead of Tuesday’s election. With control of the House clearly up for grabs across the country, the redrawn district features an incumbent who won by six votes in her last election, and a Democratic challenger that’s trying to change the state’s southeast quadrant back to blue after Miller-Meeks upended the region after the retirement of Dave Loebsack.
Miller-Meeks was with Governor Kim Reynolds and fellow Republicans running for state office, and is trying to make the case that policies championed by narrow Democratic majorities in Congress and President Joe Biden have fueled inflation.
Bohannan has argued that GOP control of the U.S. House won’t equal economic success, and that Democrats have worked on policies that favor the working class and have been trying to support those individuals most impacted by inflation.