Vice President J-D Vance is scheduled to be in Council Bluffs Friday morning to headline a rally for Republican candidates. Chris McGowan, the Republican running in Iowa’s fourth congressional district, says Vance’s visit underscores the importance of Iowa races in this year’s elections.
The event will be held at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs. That’s the site of a Trump rally before the 2018 midterms that drew people from Iowa and Nebraska. On the Nebraska side of the border, Republican incumbent Pete Rickets is seeking re-election and there’s an open race for the U-S House seat in the Omaha area. Iowa has an open U-S Senate race featuring Republican Ashley Hinson and Democrat Josh Turek, who is from Council Bluffs. McGowan says it’s a key race that will decide which party will have a majority in the U-S Senate next year.
On September 1st in the fourth congressional district Republicans held a voter registration edge of nearly 183-thousand over Democrats. Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart says Iowa Republicans keep parading politicians from the D-C swamp through Iowa in hopes it will save them from record-high diesel and gas prices. Hart says it’s not going to work because Iowans are smarter than that.
