Iowa Down Ballot
Iowa Down Ballot
12 days till E-Day: IA-01 debate, book bans and alleged illegal voting
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12 days till E-Day: IA-01 debate, book bans and alleged illegal voting

with Ed Tibbetts, Laura Belin, Art Cullen, Bob Leonard and Kathie Obradovich

We are two weeks away from Election Day. In Iowa, early voting has already begun. And this week, we got a side-by-side look at the candidates in the “toss-up” race for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District seat. Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Democratic challenger Christian Bohannan squared off over during a televised debate Monday.

On this episode of Iowa Down Ballot, moderator Ed Tibbetts talks with a panel of Iowa political journalists about how they faired on questions about abortion, the border, and COVID relief. They also discuss House Speaker Mike Johnson’s visit to Iowa, a new lawsuit over Iowa’s book ban, weird allegations about voter fraud from the Iowa Secretary of State and a reminder that polls are “by definition” a measure of the past, not the future—so don’t seat them.

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Iowa Down Ballot is a production of the Iowa Writers Collaborative. It is produced by Zachary Oren Smith with music from Dartanyan L. Brown.

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