{"id":153840,"date":"2021-02-20T17:52:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T22:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=153840"},"modified":"2021-02-20T17:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T22:58:43","slug":"house-democrats-begin-process-to-potentially-unseat-gop-congresswoman-replace-with-democrat-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-begin-process-to-potentially-unseat-gop-congresswoman-replace-with-democrat-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Begin Process To Potentially Unseat GOP Congresswoman, Replace With Democrat Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-democrats-begin-process-to-potentially-unseat-gop-congresswoman-replace-with-democrat-opponent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=153840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mariannette-Miller-Meeks-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>House Democrats have started the process of determining whether a Republican congresswoman was the legitimate winner of her race in Iowa \u2014 a process that could ultimately end with Democrats deciding to seat the congresswoman\u2019s Democrat opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats on the House Administration Committee have turned their attention to Democrat Rita Hart\u2019s claims that Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) was not the legitimate winner of November\u2019s election in Iowa\u2019s 2nd Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House Administration Committee gathered virtually Friday afternoon to finalize the process by which it will adjudicate Hart\u2019s claim, which was filed under the Federal Contested Elections Act. The committee has been largely silent since Hart first made her contest in December, but the hearing suggests that it is preparing to review the matter further,\u201d Politico reported. \u201cAt the center of Hart\u2019s complaint are 22 ballots that her campaign says were improperly rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller-Meeks won the district by a total of six votes, making it one of the closest federal elections in recent history, according to the report. Democrats have a razor-thin majority in the House, and if Miller-Meeks were to be seated, it would give them a tiny bit more breathing room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last time the House chose to overturn a state-certified election was an acrimonious affair. After the 1984 elections, the House Democratic majority refused to seat the Republican challenger to Democratic Rep. Frank McCloskey,\u201d the report added. \u201cA Republican official in Indiana certified the GOP candidate, Richard McIntyre, as the winner, but a recount conducted by Congress found McCloskey won by 4 votes. When the House Democrats voted to seat McCloskey, Republicans stormed out of the chamber in protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Ranking Member on the House Administration Committee, said, \u201cI can\u2019t think of a worst first step this committee could take in a new Congress than to waste taxpayer dollars by moving forward with overturning this election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis cited the 1984 election result out of Indiana during Friday\u2019s meeting, warning that Democrats could try to play the same game now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBallots that were not legal under the state law were suddenly determined legal votes under new rules invented by a partisan task force, who completely rejected state law,\u201d Davis said. \u201cThey changed the rules of the game after the game had already been played. And that\u2019s exactly what could be happening 35 years later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans won another nail biter in a House race out of New York earlier this month when a state Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte ruled that Claudia Tenney must be certified as the winner of the state\u2019s 22nd Congressional District over Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelConte panned local elections boards for \u2018systemic violations of state and federal election law,\u2019 including the Oneida County\u2019s failure to process more than 2,400 voter applications,\u201d The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/537624-claudia-tenney-to-be-declared-winner-in-new-york-congressional-race\">reported<\/a>. \u201cHowever, the judge ruled it is not the court\u2019s job to rectify those errors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats have started the process of determining whether a Republican congresswoman was the legitimate winner of her race in Iowa \u2014 a process that could ultimately end with Democrats &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181592,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mariannette-Miller-Meeks-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Democrats Begin Process To Potentially Unseat GOP Congresswoman, Replace With Democrat Opponent","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mariannette-Miller-Meeks-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Democrats Begin Process To Potentially Unseat GOP Congresswoman, Replace With Democrat Opponent","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}