• Re: Republican Zach Nunn ousts Cindy Axne to flip sought-after Iowa dis

    From Hunter's Crack@21:1/5 to governor.swill@gmail.com on Wed Sep 6 05:02:57 2023
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    <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

    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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