A Republican super PAC has decided to cancel its funded advertisements for incumbent U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa's 1st Congressional District to funnel resources to other districts in the state, an official with the PAC confirmed to the Quad-City Times.
The New York Times published a report Tuesday that two Super PACs decided to cancel planned advertisements for two Republican incumbents seeking reelection — Miller-Meeks and New Jersey's Thomas Kean — as polling showed their reelection chances dimming.
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the PAC aligned with House Speaker Mike Johnson, is planning to reallocate $10 million from four districts — Iowa's 1st District, New Jersey's 7th District, Ohio's 1st District and Michigan's 8th District.
Money from Iowa's 1st District will be reallocated to Iowa's 2nd and 3rd Districts, the official said.
Miller-Meeks is running for a fourth term in the U.S. House and has won with among the slimmest margins in the country, including a six-vote margin in 2020.
This is her third time facing Democrat Christina Bohannan. Miller-Meeks won by 7 percentage points in 2022 and by fewer than 800 votes in 2024. Election analysts say the race is close. Sabato's Crystal Ball changed the race's outlook to "leans Democratic" Sept. 22 and the Cook Political Report changed its outlook of the race from "toss-up" to "leans Democratic" on Friday.
"Our campaign has the resources to win, and Mariannette Miller-Meeks has the record to run on," a Miller-Meeks campaign spokesperson said. "Christina Bohannan has New York billionaires and national Democrats who know she'll vote with them every time. They spent millions against Mariannette in 2024, and it didn't work then. It won't work now and on November 3 she'll beat Christina Bohannan a third time."
Independent candidate Michael Bridgford, of Bettendorf, is also on the ballot.
House Speaker Mike Johnson rallied with Miller-Meeks on Friday, where Miller-Meeks dismissed the election analyses and said she's used to being an underdog.
"I don't care what the experts say. They don't know Iowa, and they don't know us," Miller-Meeks said Friday.
Johnson told the crowd Friday he's "gotta have her" in Congress and said he expected the 1st District to be a $50 million race between both parties.
Asked about a similar report from CNN published on Oct. 3 that Republicans were discussing pulling funding from her race, Miller-Meeks said Friday, "You just saw Speaker Johnson here, that's a flat-out lie."
A Bohannan campaign spokesperson declined to comment.