Axne wins reelection in Iowa

Rep. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa) won her reelection bid, fending off former GOP Rep. David Young’s attempt to reclaim the seat in a close race.

The Associated Press declared Axne the winner Wednesday. She won 49 percent of the votes cast compared to Young’s 48 percent. 

Axne beat Young to flip the district in 2018. President Trump won the state’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes Des Moines, by 3 percentage points in 2016. Young had served since 2014.

Axne and Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D-Iowa), who flipped the state’s 1st Congressional District in 2018, became the first two women elected to represent Iowa in the House. Axne was one of the nearly two dozen first-term House Democrats that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the pro-business lobbying group, endorsed this cycle. 

She serves on the House Agriculture and Financial Services committees and is a member of the New Democrat Coalition, which is a group of pro-economic growth and fiscally responsible Democrats.