Northwest Iowa — While much of the attention this campaign season has focused on the presidential contest, area voters will also be choosing their Congressional representative for the next two years when they go to the polls Tuesday.
Here in the 4th District, Republicans hold a significant voter registration advantage of more than 69-thousand “active” voters. Republican Steve King is the incumbent here in the 4th District, and often places himself at the center of the political action. King endorsed presidential candidate Ted Cruz prior to the February Iowa Caucuses, and is enthusiastically campaigning for Donald Trump this fall, often touting Trump’s promise to secure the southern border. King is also an ardent supporter of Trump’s promise to repeal and replace President Obama’s “Affordable Care Act”.
King also agrees with Trump’s assertion that the election is “rigged”.
King’s Democrat opponent, Kim Weaver, is a social worker who lives here in Sheldon. Weaver points to King’s Twitter feed, and says it shows he’s “racist”.
Weaver also accuses King of casting votes that conflict with the interests of his district, such as voting against a bill that authorized federal funding for the National Flood Insurance Program.
At the end of each of her campaign speeches, Weaver mentions her recent induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution. Weaver says she has two five-times-great grandfathers that fought the tyranny of an unjust monarch, and encourages voters to “….show the world that the descendant of true Tea Party patriots can dethrone another King.
Iowa’s fourth congressional district covers 39 counties in northwest and north central Iowa. About half of the district’s residents live in a rural area.
