A super PAC linked to U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced this week it is reserving another $2.25 million worth of TV ads in Iowa to up the pressure on Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in hopes of flipping the seat.
House Majority PAC, which is dedicated to electing Democrats to the U.S. House, announced it is placing nearly $3 million in additional TV ad reservations in Iowa and Virginia to run in the final weeks leading up to the Nov. 5 election. The bulk of which, $2.25 million, will be used to reserve TV ad time in the Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Quad Cities media markets to boost Democrat Christina Bohannan in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District race.
The super PAC had reserved $350,000 in ads in the Quad Cities market in July.
It comes after a $186 million buy in initial television and digital reservations across 58 markets was announced in April, and $24 million in television reservations announced in July. That brings House Majority PAC's total ad spending to nearly $213 million, including future reservations.
Non-partisan election forecaster Cook Political Report last week moved Iowa’s 1st Congressional District race from “Likely Republican” to “Lean Republican,” signaling the rematch between Miller-Meeks and Bohannan has become more competitive. Bohannan, a former state lawmaker and University of Iowa law professor, has outraised Miller-Meeks four quarters in a row and also leads in cash on hand.
Donald Trump won the 20-county district that includes the cities of Davenport, Iowa City, Burlington and Indianola in the 2020 presidential race.
Republican organizations have also made advertising investments in Iowa to help Miller-Meeks and fellow Iowa GOP U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn defend their seats. The American Action Network, the advocacy nonprofit working alongside the U.S. House GOP’s Congressional Leadership Fund, announced last month that it would spend $5 million on campaign ads supporting 18 House Republican candidates, including Nunn and Miller-Meeks.
The organization is running ads calling for Iowans to tell Nunn and Miller-Meeks to “keep fighting” to bring down household energy, grocery and health care costs as well as asking for the Republican lawmakers to support the Red Tape Reduction Act. The bill by fellow Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson would codify some executive orders made by former president Trump related to limiting and tracking federal regulatory costs. The bill would require federal departments and agencies to cut two existing rules for each new rule issued and offset any costs imposed by new rules while operating under a regulatory cost cap.
Nunn has signed on as a co-sponsor of the bill.
The group launched previous ad campaigns this year urging members of Congress to support immigration measures to secure the Southern border, like reinstating Trump’s “Remain in Mexico.”
The new ads will run on television and digital platforms over the next two weeks, according to American Action Network.
The Iowa Farm Bureau’s political arm endorsed Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson’s re-election in Eastern Iowa’s 2nd District.
Ashley Hinson speaks Aug. 6 during an Iowa GOP event at the Cedar Rapids Country Club. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)
Hinson is running for a third, two-year term in the U.S. House. Her opponent is Democrat Sarah Corkery.
“Iowa farmers work around the clock to feed and fuel the world, navigating rising input costs, supply chain issues, and natural disasters to ensure our food security,” Hinson said in a campaign news release. “From championing our biofuels industry and working to expand access to E15, to empowering farmers with conservation technology and keeping federal regulators off of Iowa farms, I will always fight for our Iowa farmers and our rural economy.”
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House Majority PAC, which is dedicated to electing Democrats to the U.S. House, announced it is placing nearly $3 million in additional TV ad reservations in Iowa and Virginia to run in the final weeks leading up to the Nov. 5 election. The bulk of which, $2.25 million, will be used to reserve TV ad time in the Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Quad Cities media markets to boost Democrat Christina Bohannan in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District race.
The super PAC had reserved $350,000 in ads in the Quad Cities market in July.
It comes after a $186 million buy in initial television and digital reservations across 58 markets was announced in April, and $24 million in television reservations announced in July. That brings House Majority PAC's total ad spending to nearly $213 million, including future reservations.
Non-partisan election forecaster Cook Political Report last week moved Iowa’s 1st Congressional District race from “Likely Republican” to “Lean Republican,” signaling the rematch between Miller-Meeks and Bohannan has become more competitive. Bohannan, a former state lawmaker and University of Iowa law professor, has outraised Miller-Meeks four quarters in a row and also leads in cash on hand.
Donald Trump won the 20-county district that includes the cities of Davenport, Iowa City, Burlington and Indianola in the 2020 presidential race.
Republican organizations have also made advertising investments in Iowa to help Miller-Meeks and fellow Iowa GOP U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn defend their seats. The American Action Network, the advocacy nonprofit working alongside the U.S. House GOP’s Congressional Leadership Fund, announced last month that it would spend $5 million on campaign ads supporting 18 House Republican candidates, including Nunn and Miller-Meeks.
The organization is running ads calling for Iowans to tell Nunn and Miller-Meeks to “keep fighting” to bring down household energy, grocery and health care costs as well as asking for the Republican lawmakers to support the Red Tape Reduction Act. The bill by fellow Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson would codify some executive orders made by former president Trump related to limiting and tracking federal regulatory costs. The bill would require federal departments and agencies to cut two existing rules for each new rule issued and offset any costs imposed by new rules while operating under a regulatory cost cap.
Nunn has signed on as a co-sponsor of the bill.
The group launched previous ad campaigns this year urging members of Congress to support immigration measures to secure the Southern border, like reinstating Trump’s “Remain in Mexico.”
The new ads will run on television and digital platforms over the next two weeks, according to American Action Network.
Iowa Farm Bureau endorses Hinson
The Iowa Farm Bureau’s political arm endorsed Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson’s re-election in Eastern Iowa’s 2nd District.
Ashley Hinson speaks Aug. 6 during an Iowa GOP event at the Cedar Rapids Country Club. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette)
Hinson is running for a third, two-year term in the U.S. House. Her opponent is Democrat Sarah Corkery.
“Iowa farmers work around the clock to feed and fuel the world, navigating rising input costs, supply chain issues, and natural disasters to ensure our food security,” Hinson said in a campaign news release. “From championing our biofuels industry and working to expand access to E15, to empowering farmers with conservation technology and keeping federal regulators off of Iowa farms, I will always fight for our Iowa farmers and our rural economy.”
House Democrats pour $2M more into Iowa congressional race
Also in the Campaign Almanac: Iowa Farm Bureau’s political arm endorses Ashley Hinson.
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