Candidate · November 3, 2026

Christina Bohannan

On the ballot for U.S. House · Iowa's 1st District

DemocraticChallenger
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$9.9M
cash on hand
$2.1M
issues with public statements
19
outside spending for or against
$3.6M

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

OfficeU.S. House · Iowa's 1st District1
Party on the ballotDemocratic1
StatusChallenger
Also on the ballot

§2Who they are

Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Her campaign website describes her as a law professor, engineer and former state representative.2 It says she earned a degree in environmental engineering and worked as an engineer specializing in improving water quality before attending law school.3 It says she has taught at the University of Iowa College of Law for 26 years.3,4 It says she won a seat in the Iowa House of Representatives in 2020.3

Why they say they're running

Her campaign website says she is running to restore faith that government can once again work for working people, and because she believes people who work hard should get a fair shot to get ahead.3 It also says she wants to put Iowa's working families first.2

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§3What they've said on the issues

Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.

Economy, Jobs and Trade

Her campaign website says she will work to end and reverse the tariffs and trade wars, including by using Congress's power, which it says would lower costs for Iowa families and farmers.4

  1. Lower or remove most tariffs
  2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
  3. Broad tariffs on most imports
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she will exercise Congress's power to end the tariffs.4

Housing

Her campaign website says she will work to prohibit hedge funds and private investors from buying up Iowa's family homes and land.4

Social Security and Medicare

Her campaign website says she will expand the number of drugs for which Medicare can negotiate lower prices and extend those negotiated prices to Iowans on private insurance.4

  1. Repeal or scale back negotiation
  2. Keep the program as it is
  3. Expand it to more drugs and to people with private insurance
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she will expand Medicare to cover vision, dental and hearing care.4

  1. Keep current coverage, under which some private Medicare Advantage plans offer these benefits
  2. Add some of these benefits, such as hearing aids, to traditional Medicare
  3. Add dental, vision and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she will work to expand Medicare to cover home health costs for family caregivers.4

  1. Add more services by law, such as permanent telehealth from home and testing and treatment by pharmacists
  2. Leave new coverage mainly to Medicare's own reviews of the medical evidence
  3. Add services only when savings elsewhere in Medicare cover their cost
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Health Care

Her campaign website says she supports letting Iowans buy into Medicare at any age as an option alongside private insurance, and that she opposes a single-payer system.4

  1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
  2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
  3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
  4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she will immediately extend the ACA tax credits fully, to lower premiums and allow time for real health care reform.4

Her campaign website says she will immediately reverse the Medicaid cuts, which it says will remove more than 100,000 Iowans from their health coverage.4

  1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
  2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
  3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Elections and Government Reform

Her campaign website says she supports a constitutional amendment to reverse the Citizens United decision and block unlimited corporate and billionaire spending on campaigns, and that she takes no corporate PAC money.4

  1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
  2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
  3. Keep current rules
  4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she will fight to ban stock trading by all Members of Congress, executive branch members, Supreme Court justices, their spouses and staff, including requiring them to divest stocks they currently own.4

  1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
  2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
  3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website lists instituting term limits and age caps among the ethics reforms she will fight for in Congress.4

Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties

Her campaign website lists instituting a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices among the ethics reforms she will fight for in Congress.4

Education

Her campaign website says Iowa's voucher plan drains resources from public schools, and that she supports a substantial national investment in public education at every level.4

Abortion and Reproductive Health

Her campaign website says she will fight to put Roe v. Wade back into federal law and restore reproductive freedom.4

  1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
  2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
  3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
  4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
  5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she will fight to put Roe v. Wade back into federal law and restore reproductive freedom.4

  1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
  2. Leave abortion law to each state
  3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Family and Social Policy

Her campaign website says she will work to pass a comprehensive, nationwide paid family leave law.4

  1. Create a national paid leave program for all workers
  2. Expand tax credits for employers that offer paid leave, without a national requirement
  3. Keep current federal law, leaving paid leave to employers and states
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she will work to lower the cost of child care, including by expanding the Child Care Tax Credit and expanding Head Start to cover more child care slots for infants and toddlers.4

Agriculture and Rural Life

Her campaign website says she will work to pass a Farm Bill that provides fair crop insurance rates to protect against extreme weather.4

§4Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.5

Raised$9,905,570
Spent$7,901,941
Cash on hand$2,110,846

Where the money came from

Individual donors$8.2M · 83%
PACs and other political committees$715K · 7%
Political party committees$19K · 0%
The candidate's own money (gifts and loans)$7,000 · 0%
Transfers from the candidate's other committees$898K · 9%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$40K · 0%

Outside spending

Groups spending independently reported $2,788,044 supporting and $828,918 opposing Christina Bohannan this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through October 25, 2026.6

Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.

§5Financial disclosures

Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.