{"id":360933,"date":"2021-03-31T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=360933"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:32:13","slug":"republicans-urge-pelosi-to-drop-iowa-election-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-urge-pelosi-to-drop-iowa-election-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans urge Pelosi to drop Iowa election challenge"},"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\">16<\/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%2Frepublicans-urge-pelosi-to-drop-iowa-election-challenge%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=360933&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 id=\"attachment_2393143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 SEPTEMBER 07: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and fellow Democratic members of the House held a news conference at the U.S. Capitol September 7, 2016 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:20 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, March 31, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>More Republicans are calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to drop an election dispute in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Pelosi, Iowa\u2019s Secretary of State Paul Pate urged her to reject any attempts to overturn the race.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My letter to Nancy Pelosi asking her to respect Iowa\u2019s bipartisan election and recount process, State of Iowa law, and the official state certification of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMMM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepMMM<\/a> election as U.S. House representative for Iowa\u2019s Second Congressional District. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IA02?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IA02<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K87RUWF1PV\">https:\/\/t.co\/K87RUWF1PV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S2MeP2R70v\">pic.twitter.com\/S2MeP2R70v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate (@IowaSOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IowaSOS\/status\/1376551220496728068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pate noted Democrat Rita Hart approved of the recount procedures and results following her challenge. He also refuted Hart\u2019s claims the state\u2019s election laws weren\u2019t followed to address her concerns. Pate believes her campaign should have explored other remedies, rather than getting the federal government involved.<\/p>\n<p>His comments echoed those of the House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMMM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepMMM<\/a> isn&#8217;t just doing great work for the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IA02?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IA02<\/a> in Congress. As a doctor, she&#8217;s also helping administer vaccines back home.<\/p>\n<p>The people of Iowa have spoken. She will serve out the term she rightfully won, despite Democrats\u2019 attempt to retroactively steal the seat. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uoxccOZPWZ\">pic.twitter.com\/uoxccOZPWZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1377348671797305346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf you want a constitutional back, the states decide,\u201d McCarthy stated. \u201cIf Nancy Pelosi wants to pull that game, to try to pick and choose who, she\u2019s going against the voice of Iowa\u2019s second district, and I think that\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy is in Iowa rallying for Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, while a House panel reviews the contested race for Iowa\u2019s second district. Her legal team argued the Democrat-led challenge is unprincipled and dangerous.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/russias-navalny-declares-hunger-strike-in-prison\/\">Russia\u2019s Navalny Declares Hunger Strike In Prison<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 SEPTEMBER 07: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and fellow Democratic members of the House held a news conference at the U.S. Capitol September 7, 2016 in Washington, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275879,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360933","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=360933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}