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A potential House vote on who will be seated in an ongoing Iowa House congressional race could have far-reaching political ramifications for another Iowan.
Democrat Rita Hart said she ll petition the U.S. House of Representatives to ultimately decide who won her congressional contest against Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa s 2nd Congressional District. It was the closest House race in the nation, with Iowa certifying Miller-Meeks as the winner with a margin of just six votes.
If the Democratic-led House decides to hear Hart s case, then that could kick off a scenario where all members of Congress would have to cast a vote on whether Hart should be seated as the official representative in the 2nd District.
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Iowans would view Democratic candidate for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District Rita Hart as an illegitimate candidate should she be successful in challenging her election loss in the House, a new poll shows.
Losing by just six votes, Hart lost her bid to Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks after Iowa certified the election results on Nov. 30.
Following her loss, Hart announced Dec. 2 that she would be taking her case to the House Committee on Administration under the Federal Contested Elections Act, which gives the House or Senate the final authority when it comes to deciding a contested election.
Congressional decisions supersede state legislatures and courts, as stipulated by Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution which says that “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members,” while Section 4 allows Congress to “make or alter” state regulations regarding an election.
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Even as most of the national press continues to ignore Democrats scheme to steal a Congressional election in Iowa, citizens of the Hawkeye State are giving the audacious power-grabbing gambit two thumbs down. A conservative group commissioned a survey of the district (I suppose they realized waiting for the press to pay attention and run polls was would be an exercise in futility), producing findings that do not favor the race s certified loser Democrat Rita Hart:
A Democratic House candidate in Iowa who lost by six votes out of more than 394,000 cast would be viewed as illegitimate by a majority of voters in the state if the Democratic-majority chamber seats her anyway, a poll shows.According to the survey, which was conducted for American Action Network by Republican polling firm Cygnal, a Republican polling firm,
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A Democratic House candidate in Iowa who lost by six votes out of more than 394,000 cast would be viewed as illegitimate by a majority of voters in the state if the Democratic-majority chamber seats her anyway, a poll shows.
Iowa s state canvass board certified results for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District after a districtwide count in all 24 counties in the race between Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Democrat Rita Hart. The board on Nov. 30 declared Miller-Meeks the winner of the election by only six votes in a southeast Iowa seat left open by the retirement of Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack.