<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1654277257234,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000177-1b39-d2c7-af7f-5fbf13ff0004","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1654277257234,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000177-1b39-d2c7-af7f-5fbf13ff0004","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_54277155", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1025264"} }); ","_id":"00000181-2a9b-d421-ada5-6edfb24f0000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedIowa state Sen. Zach Nunn on Tuesday won the Republican nomination to face Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne in November, setting up a highly competitive race.
Nunn, 43, is one of three Republicans who ran for a bid to flip Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, easily beating financial planner Nicole Hasso and businessman Gary Leffler. With Iowa’s four House seats redrawn in 2022 due to redistricting, Republicans see the seat as key to winning the majority in November, and they would need to net at least five seats in the 435-member chamber to do so.
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“I’m the only candidate in this race with a record of cutting taxes and putting money back in the pockets of hardworking Iowans,” Nunn said in a recent interview with the Des Moines Register.
Elected to the state Senate in 2018, Nunn was previously a member of the Iowa House, from 2014 to 2018. He has a background in advanced degrees in international security from the University of Cambridge. He is also an Air Force combat veteran with “multiple deployments flying missions overseas,” Nunn added.
Throughout his tenure in the Iowa Legislature, Nunn championed his role in pushing for tax cuts, fighting human trafficking, judicial reform, and increasing school security, which he said “passed with bipartisan majorities.”
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“I voted independently from Democrats and fellow Republicans on multiple occasions,” he added.
While the three GOP candidates did not seek or receive an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, Nunn has the backing of Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, along with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
