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She was ugly and stupid anyway.

Rep. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa) is projected to be defeated by
Republican state Sen. Zach Nunn, flipping a seat that GOP
leaders had seen as among their best pickup opportunities of the
cycle.

The Associated Press called the race at 3:25 p.m. Wednesday.

Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District includes the heavily
Democratic Des Moines, but it wasn’t enough to insulate Axne
from the economic anxieties — particularly relating to inflation
— that were on the top of voters’ minds heading into the polls.

Nunn, like Republicans nationwide, had made that issue central
to his campaign pitch, accusing President Biden and the
Democrats of exacerbating inflationary trends with an influx of
new federal spending, including legislation responding to the
COVID-19 pandemic that Biden enacted in his first weeks in
office.

Nunn said he would fight inflation by cutting spending and
slashing taxes — two popular ideas in the right-leaning
district, although economists of all stripes have warned that
the latter will only make inflation worse.

Axne — who was first elected as part of the 2018 blue wave that
gave Democrats the House majority — had sought to counter those
attacks by pointing to the host of benefits adopted in Biden’s
first two years. That list included proposals to bolster the
country’s infrastructure, boost domestic manufacturing, expand
health care access and help businesses weather the pandemic.

She had also played up the Supreme Court’s decision this year to
eliminate federal protections for abortion, noting that Nunn has
supported an abortion ban without exceptions — a position she
said empowers the government to overrule the health decisions of
Americans and their doctors.

But history was not on Axne’s side, as the party that controls
the White House has routinely suffered losses in the president’s
first midterm cycle. Making things tougher, Biden’s approval has
been well underwater for more than a year. And Axne also
appeared to be hurt by the new congressional map, which threw
into the 3rd District a number of rural counties in the southern
part of the state.

Money also played a role. While Axne had raised much more
campaign cash than Nunn through the cycle — $6.6 million to her
opponent’s $2.3 million, according to OpenSecrets — outside
spending had poured into the district, helping to push Nunn over
the finish line.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3724386-republican-zach- nunn-ousts-cindy-axne-to-flip-sought-after-iowa-district/

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