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Ken Paxton calls out James Talarico's 11-day absence at Trump rally, prompting response from campaign
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton questioned Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico's absence from the campaign trail during President Donald Trump's rally in San Antonio Wednesday, prompting a response from his opponent's campaign less than a month before the November midterm elections.
Paxton led the crowd in chanting "Where is Talarico?" while asserting that the Democrat had not been seen campaigning in Texas for 11 days.
Talarico's campaign told Fox News Digital the Democrat has been sick with the flu and is expected to return to the campaign trail this weekend.
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"After holding more than 100 public events and shaking tens of thousands of hands, James came down with the flu but will be back on the trail this weekend," JT Ennis, a campaign spokesperson for Talarico, told Fox News Digital.
"Ken Paxton has been ignoring Texans this entire campaign, and his priorities are clear: He doesn’t answer to the people of this state. He answers to his billionaire megadonors and special interests."
The statement from Talarico campaign spokesperson JT Ennis also criticized Paxton's campaign priorities, pushing back against the Republican's remarks as the two candidates compete for a U.S. Senate seat.
Trump also questioned Talarico's whereabouts during his remarks, repeatedly referencing the Democrat's absence while campaigning on Paxton's behalf.
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The president suggested without evidence that Talarico had become sick after eating meat for political reasons, mocking the Democrat's dietary preferences.
Trump also criticized Talarico's positions on immigration, public safety and education, while praising Paxton's record as Texas attorney general and urging voters to support his Senate bid.
The president emphasized the importance of the Texas race to Republicans' efforts to maintain control of Congress, warning supporters about the consequences of Democrats gaining seats in the Senate.
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Trump's appearance in San Antonio was part of a broader effort to mobilize Republican voters ahead of the midterm elections. He urged attendees to participate in early voting, which begins Oct. 19 in Texas, or cast their ballots on Election Day.
The exchange over Talarico's whereabouts comes as the candidates enter the final weeks of the campaign.
Los Angeles Dodgers are back in the NLCS for third straight season after win over Atlanta Braves
It's a baseball cliché that pitching wins in the playoffs, but sometimes clichés exist for a reason.
The first three games of the NLDS matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves was a showcase of the quality of both teams' pitching staffs. In game one, Tarik Skubal was dominant for Los Angeles, though was nearly matched by the Atlanta bullpen. The Dodgers took control later in the game, but went hitless with runners in scoring position Wednesday despite the 5-3 win.
Game 2 was even better. Atlanta scratched across three runs against a shaky Blake Snell and a parade of Dodgers relievers, while Ray Kerr and Didier Fuentes, among others, held the powerful LA lineup to just two. That seemed to shift the series advantage toward the Braves, with Chris Sale scheduled to start Game 3 at home.
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Kike Hernandez and Freddie Freeman touched up Sale for two homers in the fourth inning, but again, LA couldn't score against the Braves relievers. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts got a shaky ninth inning from closer Edwin Diaz to finish it out after a leadoff double. Another low-scoring, 3-1 game between the two teams. Three games, just 17 combined runs.
Game 4? More of the same.
Tyler Glasnow started for Los Angeles, coming off a solid, but injury-plagued season. Atlanta countered with Tyler Mahle, who, out of nowhere, had the lowest ERA of any starter traded at this year's deadline. Yes, even better than Tarik Skubal. Significantly so, in fact. And once again, despite the talent in both lineups, runs were hard to come by.
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Atlanta jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first thanks mostly to the speed and baseball IQ of Michael Harris II. Harris singled to lead off the game, got a running jump to steal second, advanced to third on a grounder, then scored when Glasnow bounced a breaking ball and LA catcher Will Smith couldn't find the ball in time to make a play.
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The Dodgers tied it through, well, shockingly similar circumstances. In the top of the second, Shohei Ohtani walked to lead off the inning, then stole second as Teoscar Hernandez swung through strike three. Catcher Sean Murphy's throw got into center, letting Ohtani advance to third. Max Muncy seemingly popped up to short left center, but Mauricio Dubon, one night after robbing Freddie Freeman of a home run, just...dropped it.
Ohtani came in to score, tying the game at one apiece.
It would stay that way for a long, long time.
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Glasnow was effectively wild, walking five hitters through 4 2/3 innings, but never allowing Atlanta to break through with a big hit. While Ozzie Albies led off the sixth with a double for the Braves, Alex Vesia and Edgardo Henriquez got Drake Baldwin, Lane Thomas, and Mauricio Dubon to end the threat.
Finally, in the seventh, LA got to the Braves bullpen. Fuentes, virtually unhittable in game two in LA, couldn't find the strike zone after a Teoscar Hernandez single chased Mahle from the game. Rookie pinch hitter Josue De Paula walked with two outs, with Kyle Tucker following with one of his own. Braves manager Walt Weiss went to veteran Robert Suarez to face Andy Pages. But Pages, after starting the count 3-0, laced a line drive single up the middle on 3-2 to score two.
Henriquez pitched a scoreless bottom of the seventh, getting Ronald Acuna Jr. to ground out after Michael Harris II doubled with two outs. Tanner Scott got the heart of the Atlanta lineup in the eighth, sandwiching a grounder from Ozzie Albies around strikeouts of Olson and Drake Baldwin.
In the ninth, Max Muncy provided some further insurance with a long homer to right to stretch the lead to 4-1.
Roberts once again turned to Edwin Diaz to close, despite the veteran closer's awful, injury-filled regular season. But Diaz had a drama-free ninth, striking out Rowdy Tellez looking, getting Dubon and Austin Riley to fly out to right to clinch it.
For all the talk about LA's star-filled lineup, with Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Kyle Tucker, it was Kike Hernandez, Andy Pages, and Max Muncy who helped carry the limited offense and the Dodgers' pitching that helped secure the series. The Dodgers had just one hit with runners in scoring position all series, but did just enough to support their starters and relievers.
The Dodgers have reached their third straight NLCS, after winning championships in 2024 and 2025. They'll face the winner of the Milwaukee Brewers-San Diego Padres series, and with the Brewers up 2-1 in that series, it could set up a matchup of the only two teams to win 100 games in the regular season. And if Milwaukee can avoid using Jacob Misiorowski in the remainder of the series, they'll be able to line him up for two starts in the NLCS, plus a likely relief appearance.
For Atlanta, it's another disappointing postseason exit after their title in 2021. The Braves lineup, even with Harris, Acuna, Olson, Baldwin, Albies, and Riley, had just 18 hits in 124 at-bats. That's a .145 batting average, and that's not nearly enough to win a postseason series. They scored eight runs in four games and never could find the big hit they needed to build a big inning against Yamamoto or Glasnow.
Once again, sometimes those clichés about pitching turn out to be true.
FIRST ON FOX: US Coast Guard recruits largest class in nearly 40 years, beats goals for third straight year
FIRST ON FOX: The U.S. Coast Guard recruited its largest enlisted class in nearly four decades during fiscal year 2026, surpassing its recruiting goals for the third consecutive year as the service works to expand its ranks.
According to the Coast Guard, 5,445 active-duty members enlisted in fiscal year 2026, up from 5,204 in 2025 and 4,422 in 2024.
The service also commissioned 346 active-duty officers, the second-highest total in its history.
"These record-breaking recruitment numbers prove that the call to serve still resonates deeply across our country," Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement.
"I am incredibly proud to stand beside these new Coast Guard men and women who have stepped up to defend our homeland," he continued. "They represent the very best of who we are, and we are going to make sure they have the tools, the training and the support to get the job done."
During fiscal year 2026, the Coast Guard expanded its recruiting efforts, opening four recruiting offices in Miami, Florida; Long Island, New York; Austin, Texas; and the Netherlands.
Coast Guard Vice Commandant Adm. Tom Allan said the numbers reflect growing interest in serving.
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"We surpassed our recruiting goals because Americans are ready and willing to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard, conducting exciting missions that deliver results our Nation needs," Allan said.
"This momentum is about more than numbers; it is about being the world’s best Coast Guard and building the workforce America needs," he added. "We are proud to welcome our newest members and grateful to our recruiters for continuing to deliver exceptional results."
The service is also investing in new infrastructure to help train its expanding workforce.
The Coast Guard awarded a $400 million contract to modernize Training Center Cape May in New Jersey, marking the largest shore construction award in the service's history.
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The facility serves as the Coast Guard's sole basic training center for enlisted recruits, and the improvements are intended to accommodate its growing workforce.
The recruitment gains come as the Coast Guard pursues a modernization initiative known as Force Design.
Among the initiative's goals is to expand the Coast Guard's military workforce by at least 15,000 members by the end of fiscal year 2028 to support an expanding fleet and growing mission demands.
ESPN star Stephen A. Smith's Lane Johnson, Eagles rant triggers immediate video apology
Stephen A. Smith loves playing the Teflon Don of sports media; that is, until he faces some actual criticism. ESPN's heavyweight had to answer for his own words after aiming for Lane Johnson’s sudden retirement. The Philadelphia Eagles tackle made a surprising decision by announcing his retirement four games into the NFL season.
"Right now, it is critical that I focus on my mental health," Johnson, the 14-year veteran, announced.
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Lane Johnson has previously spoken publicly about his ongoing struggles with severe anxiety and depression.
But on Wednesday’s First Take, Stephen A. set off the internet after questioning the timing of Johnson’s decision and suggested the Eagles’ poor season, through four weeks, had far more to do with it than any personal reasons.
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"Now he calls it quits. Not before the season. Not in the offseason," Smith said. " ... Four games into the 2026 season, a dude that has been in the league forever sits back and says, ‘I need to focus on my mental health.’ Am I making it up?"
Smith doubled down, mocking the timing of Lane's decision: "And this brother said, ‘Hey, my life matters. It’s time. I’m gonna call it quits. My mental health. My mental.' Lord!"
To be fair, losing an All-Pro anchor in October is a brutal blow for Philly, especially after Howie Roseman shipped starting lineman Cam Jurgens to Baltimore earlier in the day. Perhaps the Eagles are in position to be early sellers, which Smith's original point touched on.
Those comments didn't land too hot. Co-host Kimberley A. Martin stepped in live on air to call him out: "I feel like you’re making light of the situation."
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Feeling the room shift, Smith immediately tried pivoting on air to claim he was attacking the organization rather than the player: "I would never make light of mental health issues. I’m making light of the Philadelphia Eagles’ trashy situation right now," he said.
Smith followed up and posted an apology video on X later that afternoon addressing the backlash.
"I’m sorry that when I was on television earlier this morning, on First Take … people misconstrued me minimizing mental health," he said.
Stephen A. claims he's immune to the noise, yet he folded the instant the heat turned up. If a single afternoon on X sends him running for cover, his presidential dreams are DOA.
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GOP Senate hopeful sounds alarm after alleged Mall of America terror plot thwarted
Republican Senate nominee Michele Tafoya says people in her home state of Minnesota "feel under a level of threat" after the FBI arrested an 18-year-old who allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS and discussed carrying out a mass shooting at the Mall of America.
Tafoya, who is aiming to flip a Democrat-controlled open Senate seat as she faces off against Democratic Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in the midterm elections, praised authorities in an X post, writing, "Thank you to @FBIMinneapolis and law enforcement for stopping a potential mass-casualty attack."
But she also pointed to the midterms as she argued, "This November, the choice is clear: law and order or more of the same. Common sense or chaos."
Authorities said Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud had been under investigation for nearly two years before he was arrested on the spot after buying an AK-47-style rifle, magazines and ammunition from an undercover FBI employee.
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"This was a radicalized young man who needed to be watched," U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen said Wednesday at a news conference. Rosen added that agents "were able to detect a threat and disrupt it before the defendant carried out his intention to kill, in his words, maybe 30 to 60 people."
Mohamud, according to an FBI agent's sworn complaint, repeatedly affirmed in chat messages to the informant that he intended to attack and kill non-Muslims at the mall on Oct. 24, the date of a scheduled Hmong arts celebration. The Hmong are an ethnic group from East and Southeast Asia with a large community in Minnesota."
Tafoya, in a Fox News Digital interview, said, "I hear a lot of concerns from Minnesotans on the campaign trail about crime, and no matter what form that crime takes, Minnesotans know that they feel under a level of threat that has increased lately here in Minnesota.
"And in the last week and just today, we saw the arrest of an 18-year-old ... American citizen to Somali parents arrested for ... planning a terrorist attack at the Mall of America," Tafoya said, as she referred not only to the thwarting of the terror plot, but also a recent spate of gang gun violence tied to what some in local law enforcement say are members of "the Somali American community."
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"He basically stated that he wanted to take out anyone who was not a Muslim. He also noted that the Mall of America is owned by people who are Jewish," Tafoya added. "Again, he is of Somalian descent, and terror is alive and well. And thank God we averted this massive crisis."
Flanagan, in a statement on X, wrote, "I’m relieved that a horrific attack on Minnesota was prevented and grateful for the actions of law enforcement."
Fox News Digital reached out to Flanagan's campaign for more reaction to the terror plot arrest and to Tafoya's comments but didn't receive a response at the time this article was published.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, wrote in a statement, "I'm grateful for the heroic work of law enforcement that prevented a mass shooting and terrorist attack at the Mall of America. This shows why we continue to need major coordinated investments in anti-terrorism and local law enforcement to stop attacks like these."
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Klobuchar, who is running to succeed retiring Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, emphasized, "Our state must take terrorism and violent crime head on, working with our federal law enforcement and local police departments to keep Minnesotans safe."
Her Republican rival in the gubernatorial showdown, House Speaker Lisa Demuth, also praised authorities.
"I’m grateful for the work of federal and local law enforcement that stopped this potentially catastrophic ISIS-inspired terrorist plot. It’s frightening to know that a young person could be led down this path," Demuth wrote on X.
"It’s fortunate that we have law enforcement officials and members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office that were able to do the work necessary to prevent a terrible act of mass violence from taking place in our community."
'Glad to see it': Super Bowl champion Bruce Arians rips out-of-control NFL refs after two suspensions
NFL officials were suspended after separate incidents occurred involving players in two different games this past weekend, and one former Super Bowl-winning head coach was a bit "surprised" by what happened.
Bruce Arians, who won the Super Bowl alongside Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the team’s head coach in 2021, knows that things can get heated with referees on game days.
However, under the new collective bargaining agreement between the referees and the NFL, the league has the right to take action when they deem a line was crossed – no matter which side did so.
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The NFL suspended line judge Jeff Seeman for 2 games and referee Adrian Hill for 1 game due to "unprofessional conduct toward a player." For Seeman, he was seen in a late-game exchange with Arizona Cardinals star Trey McBride, where he clearly mouthed a couple obscenities toward the tight end, who had been frustrated over an unflagged contact play on third down.
As for Hill, he got frustrated after Miami Dolphins running back Ollie Gordon blocked Vikings' linebacker Eric Willson into him, which knocked the official to the ground. Hill stood up and confronted Wilson immediately face-to-face before ordering him to go back to the huddle.
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"This kind of behavior from an official towards a player is unacceptable," NFL Players Association Executive Director JC Tretter shared on social media. "Players are consistently held accountable when the roles are reversed. We expect the NFL to hold officials to the same standard."
Arians saw the altercations as well, and he gave OutKick his take on it during a recent interview.
"I did see it and I am surprised a little bit because there was never accountability before," he said, while also highlighting his work with Novartis and early prostate cancer screenings for their new initiative. "Under the new collective bargaining agreement with officials, there’s a lot more accountability and I’m glad to see that.
"I’ve had many, many run-ins with the referees. I’m legendary in that part, you know. They’d come over [and say], ‘Please, just don’t spit on me, coach.’ I’d be hollering and screaming at them. But, yeah, it’s a great thing I think."
As he said, Arians had dust-ups with officials during his lengthy tenure in the league, but that’s something seen on game days all the time. He was surprised, however, to see it occur with players, who usually let the coaches do the yelling for him.
"I was surprised it was more with a player than a coach, because coaches can go way overboard," Arians explained. "But I think that’s a very, very important thing that the NFL now has control."
It seems the league didn’t want to handle this behind the scenes, but rather sent a broader message with these two suspensions: acts like this by officials won’t be tolerated moving forward.
Arians believes that is the right balance to have in the sport.
Iowa city council meeting erupts after former member opens meeting with satanic prayer and 'Hail Satan'
A city council in Iowa erupted after a resident opened a meeting with a satanic prayer Tuesday.
Before the meeting of the Ottumwa City Council began, former council member Matt Dalbey opened with an invocation to the "dark father" to "embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat from the tree of knowledge" before ending with a "Hail Satan" declaration.
After the council recited the Pledge of Allegiance and took roll, New Life Center Pastor Rick Bick interrupted the meeting to demand pushback against Dalbey's invocation.
"Let's just reverse this curse that was put on our city. That ending with 'Hail Satan' or 'Hail dark god,' that's not welcome here," Bick insisted.
Though City Council member Cara Galloway told Bick to save his comments for public discussion, Bick demanded immediate action.
"It needs to be done now," Bick said. "I appreciate what Ms. Galloway is saying, but that was a curse put on the city. When he said 'Hail Satan' ... most of you know that, and we need to just stop and reverse it."
In response, Ottumwa Mayor Benjamin Foote requested 30 seconds of silence to allow for prayer or reflection and overruled Galloway's efforts to move forward with the meeting.
Reacting to the controversy, Foote told Fox News Digital, "This is not a reflection of our community. As the mayor of my hometown in Iowa, I know the people of Ottumwa, and the invocation read at the start of Tuesday’s meeting does not represent the faith or the values of families who call this city home."
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After the meeting concluded, Galloway gave additional comments on the matter, repeating past concerns she had about establishing invocations at city council meetings that could lead to more conflicts.
"Opening with an invocation means allowing viewpoints that may not reflect our own, and responding to someone's invocation is a slippery slope to putting a financial liability on the taxpayers and allowing for others to object or respond," Galloway said.
"And this is exactly why I had concerns about having an invocation when we first talked about it. And I think I even specifically referenced that having someone from the Church of Satan or a prayer about Satan when we talked about that, that this could happen, and we would need to allow it.
"I just want to remind us thatm again, sometimes things are said that we may not agree with ... and while you're allowed to do the moment of silence and that kind of thing too, I think we've opened ourselves up for others to object or respond to others' invocations," she continued.
"And we need to remember that we are up here to be neutral and allow viewpoints because we've opened up invocations."
According to a report by The Ottumwa Courier, the city adopted an invocation policy in January. The policy says it does not endorse any faith or religious denomination but is intended "to acknowledge and express the City Council's respect for the diversity of both organized and unorganized religious denominations, as well as other faiths, belief systems, or the lack thereof, represented and practiced among the citizens of the City of Ottumwa."
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In a private message, according to the Ottumwa Courier, Dalbey, who is a member of The Satanic Temple of Iowa, said that the prayer is commonly used by the temple "but has nothing to do with the belief in a satanic deity."
In a comment to Fox News Digital, council member Bill Hoffman described leaving the room once the prayer was invoked and returning for the Pledge of Allegiance, though he defended Dalbey's right to say what he believes.
"I'm a Christian man with Christian values. That doesn't mean I don't want to observe his First Amendment right. It just means that I want to use my rights not to observe that," he said.
Hoffman added that he expects the invocation policy to be discussed in the future and that the council did not condone the content.
Cleveland Guardians stay alive in ALDS, deny White Sox clinch at home
The Chicago White Sox last clinched a postseason series at home when Jiggs Donahue and George Davis helped the South Siders defeat the Chicago Cubs in Game 6 of the 1906 World Series.
More than a century later, the White Sox came up short Thursday in their bid to clinch a spot in the American League Championship Series on their home field, falling to the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 in Game 3. The Guardians haven't made it to what is effectively the MLB's playoffs semifinals since 2005.
The White Sox entered the potential ALDS-clinching game with a 2-0 series lead and struck first when catcher Kyle Teel doubled to right field, driving in the game’s first run.
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The Guardians recorded two triples in a postseason game for the first time in franchise history. They became the first major league team to accomplish the feat since the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the 2024 World Series.
Adell, Ramírez, Bailey and Brayan Rocchio each had two of the team’s 11 hits — a complete turnaround for the AL Central champions after they managed just three runs and seven hits in the first two games of the series combined.
Chicago won its first four games in a surprising postseason appearance after going 60-102 last year. It was backed by a frenzied crowd of 40,590 for the franchise’s first home playoff game since 2021, but there wasn’t much for the fans to cheer in the final innings.
Parker Messick is scheduled to start for Cleveland in Game 4 on Thursday.
Wednesday marked Chicago’s first home playoff game since 2021 and another milestone in a surprising season. The White Sox had lost a combined 324 games over the previous three years.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Critical House race that could decide control of Congress hits home stretch as GOP rep warns what's at stake
PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa — Iowa's 1st Congressional District is shaping up to be one of the closest races in the country as Republicans try to hold their razor-thin majority in the House.
Fox News Digital spoke to Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks about her pitch to keep the seat in GOP hands and what Democrats taking back control would mean.
"Common sense over crazy. This is just common sense over crazy communism," Miller-Meeks told Fox News Digital about her opponent, former Democratic state Rep. Christina Bohannan, who Miller-Meeks said is "perfectly in alignment" with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Miller-Meeks accused Bohannan, who the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has labeled a "DEI queen," of supporting progressive priorities during her time in the Iowa House that aren't in line with where the majority of Iowa voters stand.
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"My opponent has not supported law enforcement. She tries to hide where she is on open borders. She has voted against every single tax cut while she was an Iowa legislator and said that the working family's tax cut was dangerous and would get rid of all of it," Miller-Meeks said.
"Then she talks about in her campaign ads supporting tax cuts for the middle class. She also supported keeping boys in girls sports and boys and girls locker rooms."
Miller-Meeks, who spoke to Fox News Digital at a Department of Agriculture roundtable talking to farmers about their needs and the Trump administration's efforts to lower burdensome farming regulations, said, over the next month until the election, her campaign will continue to "make sure that we're serving Iowans, that were out meeting with constituents answering their questions, coming before them and being available and doing the great constituent work that we've always done and showing the contrast."
The incumbent congressman touted her record of working to bring in a massive steel mill in recent months, creating manufacturing jobs, helping farmers through ethanol and biodiesel policies, improving water quality and supporting conservation.
Voters across the country, including in Iowa, have expressed frustration with the economy, the cost of gas and diesel and the Iran War. And while Miller-Meeks acknowledged the concerns, she's making the case that putting Democrats back in power isn't the answer because they would roll back the work that has been done by Republicans.
"There'll be no relief coming," she said. "They already said that they would get rid of all those policies."
Miller-Meeks said the Democratic Party as a whole has moved further left and will attempt to "get rid of" Republican-led measures she credited with making U.S. steel production more competitive and benefiting states like Iowa.
"Our bill on opening up energy production here in the United States did bring gasoline prices and diesel prices down at the first of the year," Miller-Meeks explained. She added that if Republican policies had been put in place during the Biden administration, "we would have already had more biodiesel, which would have helped bring down diesel prices."
The congresswoman argued Republicans will fight to preserve policies that lower energy, housing, healthcare and prescription drug costs, create jobs and root out fraud, waste and abuse that cost taxpayers millions.
"It's not just making prices affordable, but it's also increasing wages and increasing jobs and good-paying jobs," she said. "We have certainly done that with the policies that we've put in place that the Democrats would get rid of."
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Miller-Meeks also mentioned several proposals she led targeting fraud in government programs following the Feeding Our Future scandal, which raised many questions about accountability among state leaders. The Medicaid Whistleblower Protection Act would establish federal protections nationwide for Medicaid workers who report early warning signs of fraud, and the WALZ Act would require the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General to open investigations into any program that sees a 10% or greater increase in total payments over any six-month period within a fiscal year.
"Tackling corruption inside the government, inside government agencies or in members of Congress or the administration, we're gonna continue to do that and work to serve Iowans and the American people," she said.
This will be Bohannan’s third time running for Congress against Miller-Meeks after narrowly losing by less than a percentage point in 2024. The race is rated a "toss up" by Cook Political Report, reflecting Democratic momentum and broader headwinds facing Republicans in a midterm election shaped by President Donald Trump’s approval ratings and economic concerns.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Bohannan defended her positions, writing Miller-Meeks' "siding with drug companies, data centers, billionaires and party leadership at every turn" is "self-serving."
"What's crazy is pretending to represent your constituents when you're bought and sold. I'll always put Iowa first. That's common sense," Bohannan said.
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