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米勒-米克斯在爱荷华州第一国会选区2024年的选举中以不足一个百分点的优势获胜
作者：基拉·麦克唐纳、安德鲁·马克·米勒 福克斯新闻
米勒-米克斯称民主党对手在爱荷华州关键选举中与社会主义立场一致
爱荷华州共和党众议员玛丽埃特·米勒-米克斯在爱荷华州普雷里城接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，谈到了克里斯蒂娜·博安南的投票记录，并为共和党人在中期选举前争取支持阐述了理由。
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——爱荷华州普雷里城——爱荷华州第一国会选区即将成为全国竞争最激烈的选区之一，共和党正试图保住其在众议院微弱的多数席位。
福克斯新闻数字频道采访了众议员玛丽埃特·米勒-米克斯，她谈到了自己为保住该席位所做的宣传，以及民主党夺回控制权将意味着什么。
“常识战胜疯狂。这就是常识战胜疯狂的共产主义，”米勒-米克斯在谈到她的对手、前民主党州众议员克里斯蒂娜·博安南时表示。她称博安南“完全符合”美国民主社会主义者组织（DSA）的立场。
米勒-米克斯指责博安南——美国全国共和党国会委员会（NRCC）给她贴上了“多元化、公平与包容女王”的标签——在爱荷华州议会任职期间支持的进步政策与爱荷华州大多数选民的立场不符。
众议院共和党法案旨在填补明尼苏达州医疗补助欺诈丑闻暴露的举报人监管漏洞
“我的对手从未支持过执法部门。她试图掩盖自己在开放边境问题上的立场。她在爱荷华州议员任内投票反对所有减税措施，还称工薪家庭减税政策很危险，会彻底取消所有减税。”米勒-米克斯说道。
“随后她却在竞选广告中声称支持中产阶级减税。她还支持让男生继续留在女子运动队，以及允许男女共用更衣室。”
爱荷华州共和党众议员玛丽埃特·米勒-米克斯在爱荷华州普雷里城接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访，谈论爱荷华州第一国会选区这场高风险的选举。
米勒-米克斯在农业部的一场圆桌会议上接受了福克斯新闻数字频道的采访，当时她正与农民们讨论他们的需求，以及特朗普政府为减轻繁重的农业监管负担所做的努力。她表示，在距离选举还有一个月的时间里，她的竞选团队将继续“确保我们为爱荷华州民众服务，走出去与选民见面，回答他们的问题，出席活动并与他们沟通，一如既往地做好出色的选民服务工作，展示两党之间的差异”。
这位现任议员吹嘘了自己的政绩：近几个月来努力引进一座大型钢铁厂，创造制造业就业机会；通过乙醇和生物柴油政策帮助农民；改善水质；支持环境保护。
关键摇摆选区的民主党议员在领取纳税人薪水的同时缺席了近半数州议会投票：‘全程缺席’
爱荷华州第一国会选区候选人克里斯蒂娜·博安南于2024年10月23日在爱荷华州爱荷华市举行的负担得起的住房圆桌会议上倾听发言。
包括爱荷华州在内的全美选民都对经济、汽油和柴油价格以及伊朗战争表示不满。米勒-米克斯承认这些担忧，但她指出，让民主党重新掌权并非解决办法，因为民主党会推翻共和党已经取得的成果。
“不会有任何救济措施出台，”她说。“他们已经明确表示要废除所有这些政策。”
米勒-米克斯表示，民主党整体已经进一步左倾，并试图“废除”共和党领导的各项举措，她认为这些举措提高了美国钢铁生产的竞争力，惠及了爱荷华州等州。
“我们关于扩大美国国内能源生产的法案确实在年初降低了汽油和柴油价格，”米勒-米克斯解释道。她补充说，如果拜登政府期间实施了共和党的政策，“我们本可以生产更多的生物柴油，这将有助于降低柴油价格”。
这位女议员辩称，共和党将努力维护降低能源、住房、医疗保健和处方药价格的政策，创造就业机会，并铲除耗费纳税人数百万美元的欺诈、浪费和滥用行为。
“这不仅是让物价变得负担得起，还要提高工资，增加就业机会，提供高薪工作，”她说。“我们通过已实施的政策确实做到了这一点，而民主党会废除这些政策。”
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爱荷华州共和党众议员玛丽埃特·米勒-米克斯于2025年12月16日在国会访客中心参加众议院共和党会议后的新闻发布会。
米勒-米克斯还提到了她牵头提出的多项针对“喂养我们的未来”丑闻后政府项目欺诈行为的提案，该丑闻引发了人们对州领导人问责制的诸多质疑。《医疗补助举报人保护法》将在全国范围内为举报医疗补助欺诈早期预警信号的工作人员建立联邦保护机制；《WALZ法案》将要求卫生与公众服务部监察长办公室对任何财政年度内六个月内总支付额增长10%或以上的项目展开调查。
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“我们将继续打击政府内部、政府机构内部、国会议员或政府部门内部的腐败行为，为爱荷华州民众和美国人民服务，”她说。
这将是博安南第三次挑战米勒-米克斯的国会席位，她在2024年以不足一个百分点的劣势惜败。库克政治报告将这场竞选评为“势均力敌”，反映出民主党的势头，以及在中期选举中共和党面临的更广泛逆风，此次中期选举受到特朗普总统的支持率和经济担忧的影响。
博安南在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中为自己的立场辩护，称米勒-米克斯“每次都站在制药公司、数据中心、亿万富翁和政党领导层一边”，这是“自私自利的”。
“荒谬的是，声称自己代表选民，实则已被收买。我永远将爱荷华州放在首位。这就是常识，”博安南说道。
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Critical House race that could decide control of Congress hits home stretch as GOP rep warns what’s at stake
October 7, 2026 8:00pm EDT / Fox News
Rep Miller-Meeks won her 2024 election by less than a percentage point in IA-01
By Kiera McDonald , Andrew Mark Miller Fox News
Miller-Meeks says Democratic opponent aligns with socialism in key Iowa race
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, spoke to Fox News Digital in Prairie City, Iowa, about Christina Bohannan’s voting record while outlining her case for Republicans ahead of the midterms.
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PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa — Iowa’s 1st Congressional District is shaping up to be one of the closest races in the country as Republicans try to hold their razor-thin majority in the House.
Fox News Digital spoke to Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks about her pitch to keep the seat in GOP hands and what Democrats taking back control would mean.
“Common sense over crazy. This is just common sense over crazy communism,” Miller-Meeks told Fox News Digital about her opponent, former Democratic state Rep. Christina Bohannan, who Miller-Meeks said is “perfectly in alignment” with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Miller-Meeks accused Bohannan, who the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has labeled a “DEI queen,” of supporting progressive priorities during her time in the Iowa House that aren’t in line with where the majority of Iowa voters stand.
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“My opponent has not supported law enforcement. She tries to hide where she is on open borders. She has voted against every single tax cut while she was an Iowa legislator and said that the working family’s tax cut was dangerous and would get rid of all of it,” Miller-Meeks said.
“Then she talks about in her campaign ads supporting tax cuts for the middle class. She also supported keeping boys in girls sports and boys and girls locker rooms.”
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, spoke to Fox News Digital in Prairie City, Iowa, about the high-stakes race for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District.(Fox News Digital/Andrew Mark Miller; Iowa Legislature)
Miller-Meeks, who spoke to Fox News Digital at a Department of Agriculture roundtable talking to farmers about their needs and the Trump administration’s efforts to lower burdensome farming regulations, said, over the next month until the election, her campaign will continue to “make sure that we’re serving Iowans, that were out meeting with constituents answering their questions, coming before them and being available and doing the great constituent work that we’ve always done and showing the contrast.”
The incumbent congressman touted her record of working to bring in a massive steel mill in recent months, creating manufacturing jobs, helping farmers through ethanol and biodiesel policies, improving water quality and supporting conservation.
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Christina Bohannan, candidate for Iowa’s first congressional district, listens during a roundtable on affordable housing Oct. 23, 2024 in Iowa City, Iowa.(Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Voters across the country, including in Iowa, have expressed frustration with the economy, the cost of gas and diesel and the Iran War. And while Miller-Meeks acknowledged the concerns, she’s making the case that putting Democrats back in power isn’t the answer because they would roll back the work that has been done by Republicans.
“There’ll be no relief coming,” she said. “They already said that they would get rid of all those policies.”
Miller-Meeks said the Democratic Party as a whole has moved further left and will attempt to “get rid of” Republican-led measures she credited with making U.S. steel production more competitive and benefiting states like Iowa.
“Our bill on opening up energy production here in the United States did bring gasoline prices and diesel prices down at the first of the year,” Miller-Meeks explained. She added that if Republican policies had been put in place during the Biden administration, “we would have already had more biodiesel, which would have helped bring down diesel prices.”
The congresswoman argued Republicans will fight to preserve policies that lower energy, housing, healthcare and prescription drug costs, create jobs and root out fraud, waste and abuse that cost taxpayers millions.
“It’s not just making prices affordable, but it’s also increasing wages and increasing jobs and good-paying jobs,” she said. “We have certainly done that with the policies that we’ve put in place that the Democrats would get rid of.”
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Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, attends a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a meeting of the House Republican Conference Dec. 16, 2025.(CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Miller-Meeks also mentioned several proposals she led targeting fraud in government programs following the Feeding Our Future scandal, which raised many questions about accountability among state leaders. The Medicaid Whistleblower Protection Act would establish federal protections nationwide for Medicaid workers who report early warning signs of fraud, and the WALZ Act would require the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General to open investigations into any program that sees a 10% or greater increase in total payments over any six-month period within a fiscal year.
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“Tackling corruption inside the government, inside government agencies or in members of Congress or the administration, we’re gonna continue to do that and work to serve Iowans and the American people,” she said.
This will be Bohannan’s third time running for Congress against Miller-Meeks after narrowly losing by less than a percentage point in 2024. The race is rated a “toss up” by Cook Political Report, reflecting Democratic momentum and broader headwinds facing Republicans in a midterm election shaped by President Donald Trump’s approval ratings and economic concerns.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Bohannan defended her positions, writing Miller-Meeks’ “siding with drug companies, data centers, billionaires and party leadership at every turn” is “self-serving.”
“What’s crazy is pretending to represent your constituents when you’re bought and sold. I’ll always put Iowa first. That’s common sense,” Bohannan said.
Kiera McDonald is a Production Assistant for Fox News Digital.
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