Democrat Christina Bohannan to take on Iowa GOP Rep. Miller-Meeks for third time

Christina Bohannan won the Democrat superior successful Iowa's 1st Congressional District connected Tuesday, CBS News projects, giving her a 3rd accidental astatine trying to unseat Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks. 

Bohannan, a University of Iowa instrumentality prof and erstwhile authorities representative, bushed governmental newcomer and healthcare idiosyncratic Travis Terrell to beforehand to the November wide election. 

The Iowa district, which spans the southeastern country of the state, has a past of adjacent races, with Miller-Meeks defeating her Democratic opponents by slim margins. 

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has rated the contention a flip up, and House Democrats' run arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, sees it arsenic 1 of its apical targets to flip successful the November elections. 

Miller-Meeks has served successful Congress since 2021 aft winning her 2020 predetermination by six votes, successful what was 1 of the closest House races successful U.S. history. 

Miller-Meeks won by a overmuch wider borderline — astir 20,000 votes — successful 2022 erstwhile she faced Bohannan for the archetypal time. But her pb narrowed considerably during their 2024 rematch, erstwhile Miller-Meeks won her 3rd word successful Congress by little than 800 votes — 1 of the narrowest margins that year. 

The results of the 2020 and 2024 races weren't finalized until weeks aft the predetermination aft the adjacent margins led to recounts. 

Miller-Meeks and Bohannan person akin amounts of currency connected hand, according to the latest Federal Election Commission data. 

Republicans successful Iowa power each 4 House seats, some Senate seats and the governor's mansion. Democrats successful Iowa besides invested heavy successful the governor's contention and the Senate seat, which volition beryllium unfastened since Sen. Joni Ernst announced her retirement. Democrats are hoping that the nationalist situation — including precocious state prices, the warfare successful Iran and fallout from the tariffs — volition assistance them interruption up the GOP's dominance.