Great news arrived on Wednesday, November 6, the day following the historic election in which former president and now-President-Elect Donald Trump surged to triumph, bringing the GOP with him and winning the Senate as well, a vital House seat was held upon.
That is significant since it remains to be seen whether the GOP can hang onto its House majority or if it will lose the House and so lose its opportunity for at least two years of at least two years of change in the way Trump wants things changed, something generally difficult if there is a divided national legislature.
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, an Iowa Republican whose razor-thin margin of victory gets the GOP one seat closer to acquiring the triumph it needs to rule the national government, is the set kept onto. Her race fell within 0.2% points, thus it wasn’t called until late in the morning on the day following the election.
The race in which Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks managed to retain her seat was not called until As of 10:10 am EST on the 6th, at which point Decision Desk Headquarters contacted her and declared that she had managed to eke out a victory with 50.1% of the vote, defeating challenger Christina Bohannan, who managed to get just-shy 49.9%.
Announcing in a post on X (previously Twitter) that Rep. Miller-Meeks has managed her nail-biter of an electoral triumph, Decision Desk HQ said, Decision Desk HQ estimates Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) wins the US House election in Iowa’s first congressional district. # Decision Made: 10:10 AM EDT.
Rep. Miller-Meeks was hailed on X for her triumph. For instance, conservative writer Matthew Foldi posed for her own “Dewey Defeats Truman” picture and penned, “SHE DID IT @millermeeks destroyed Ann Selzer’s bogus “Iowa Poll” in #IA01. Selzer’s poll said Miller-Meeks would lose by SIXTEEN PERCENT; she won.
“First, thank you to all you voted,” Rep. Miller-Meeks said in her own, personal report on her triumph. Being veterans, we guaranteed that right and privilege for you. Second, I want to thank everyone who helped, volunteered, observed polls, placed signs or made donations. Not able to accomplish it without you. Third, serving you honors and humble me.
She also penned on Trump’s triumph, stating, “Congratulations to President Donald Trump for his historic win in Iowa and the nation. First Republican to top the national popular vote in two decades. amazing triumph! Starting on the America First agenda under a unified government excites me.
Before securing her seat in Iowa’s First Congressional District in 2020, a similarly close contest, 69-year-old Rep. Miller-Meeks had a lifetime career as a physician. She has also concentrated especially on healthcare reform, something about which she is quite knowledgeable from working in the field, and veteran concerns.
Her seat is in a district that often swings between Republicans and Democrats, thus her ability to hang onto it in closely contested elections is crucial for the GOP in elections like this one, where they want to retain a tiny majority in the House of Representatives.
The left was set off by Trump’s huge margin of victory in the 2024 contest, one that was far from Representative Miller-Meeks’s re-election. See Jon Stewart lose his sanity about it here:
