Hunter
09/23/24
Iowa Republican lawmakers said voters need to rally around Donald Trump this November at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual banquet Saturday night in Des Moines.
The Des Moines Register reports Faith and Freedom Coalition President Steve Scheffler told the packed crowd, “You’ve got one of two choices. You either can vote for the people that support evil, or you can support a guy that’s flawed like all of us, that’ll help save the country.”
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said she told Trump personally that voters are going to do the work to make sure he wins in Iowa. She attacked Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on immigration, claiming she can’t be trusted in the White House if she can’t be trusted with the border.
Mariannette Miller-Meeks, running for another term in the US House, told the crowd she’s voting for Donald Trump “because the alternative is socialism and communism.” Opponent Christina Bohannan is running ads criticizing Miller-Meeks for supporting a strict abortion ban.
Senator Joni Ernst, who also spoke at the banquet, told voters they can’t let Kamala Harris undo the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe versus Wade, despite the majority of Iowans opposing Iowa’s new “fetal heartbeat” law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, according to a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll.
The poll found that 59% of Iowans — including 69% of women — disapprove of the new restrictions.