Republican Donald Trump won the state of Iowa and its six Electoral College votes Tuesday evening for the third time.
Trump then won the presidency on Wednesday once some swing state outcomes like Pennsylvania and Georgia became known.
Trump topped Vice President Kamala Harris in Iowa, taking 56 percent of the vote. In Woodbury County, Trump tallied 60 percent.
The presidential vote was watched especially closely after a Des Moines Register Iowa Poll released over the weekend found Harris with a slight lead.
Trump also won handily in South Dakota, plus took four of the five electoral votes in Nebraska.
Additionally, for the last two years, Republicans have held all four Iowa congressional seats, and this year Democrats narrowly failed at taking back one of those districts in Southeast Iowa.
Full results did not come until early Wednesday morning, when Republican Mariannette Miller-Meek won her third term in office in the 1st congressional district.
Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan fell short by 413 votes.
In 2022, Miller-Meeks defeated Bohannan by about 20,000 votes.
That made for an election outcome where all four Republicans won again. Ashley Hinson got a victory in Northeast Iowa’s 2nd District.
Hinson disparaged Democratic immigration policy, reiterated her support for Trump, and called her win a victory for Iowa’s values.
Congressman Zach Nunn was re-elected to a second term representing Iowa’s 3rd congressional district, by getting 52 percent to defeat Democratic challenger Lanon Baccam.
In a rematch of the 2022 Iowa 4th congressional district race, incumbent Republican Randy Feenstra has again defeated Democrat Ryan Melton.
Feenstra had 67 percent of the vote, with more than 245,000 ballots cast for him.
“Build the wall to make sure we know who's coming in and out to secure the border, And then number two is we got to get to a balanced budget. We've got to stop inflation, and then finally, we got to become energy-independent using biofuels, using ethanol and biodiesel. These are the things that we can do to help our economy in Iowa and throughout the Midwest,” he said. 17 SECS
The 4th District covers 36 counties in Northwest and North Central Iowa, and has many more registered Republicans than Democrats.
Feenstra is a former state senator from Hull, who won his first term in 2020 in the district that had been held for 18 years by conservative firebrand Steve King.
Melton lives in Webster City, and lost to Feenstra two years ago, 67 percent to 30 percent.
Also in the Cornhusker state, incumbent Republican Congressman Mike Flood defeated Democratic challenger State Senator Carol Blood to represent Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District.
And in Nebraska's 3rd Congressional District, incumbent Republican Adrian Smith was reelected once again.
In the tightly fought 2nd Congressional District, at noon Wednesday Republican incumbent Don Bacon announced victory, after polls showed a 51-49 percent lead over Democrat Tony Vargas in the Omaha district.
For the sole congressional seat in South Dakota, Republican Dusty Johnson also won re-election.
There were two U.S. Senate seats contested in Nebraska, and they both were won by Republican incumbents Pete Ricketts and Deb Fischer, who was first elected in 2012.
