With less than a week before Election Day, signs are growing that Democrats will retain Iowa’s open 2nd District — one of the handful of U.S. House districts where President Donald Trump emerged triumphant in 2016 but which sent a Democrat to Congress (Dave Loebsack, who is retiring after 14 years).
The Monmouth University poll completed last week shows liberal former Democrat state Sen. Rita Hart with a 49% to 43% lead districtwide over Republican state Sen. Mariannette Miller-Meeks.
Hart, a strong pro-choice backer and supporter of national health insurance, was the losing Democrat nominee for lieutenant governor in 2018.
The conservative Miller-Meeks, a physician and past president of the state medical society, has made three strong-but-losing races against Loebsack in the last decade.
In recent weeks, Miller-Meeks has gotten considerable publicity for her defense of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
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