Joe Mitchell
Republican
Housing developer; former Iowa state representative and former chief of staff at the Federal Housing Finance Agency
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U.S. House · Nov 3, 2026
Open seat. Held by Ashley Hinson, who is not running.
Open seat: Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson is running for the U.S. Senate. Candidates are listed in the order of the Secretary of State's candidate list.
Housing developer; former Iowa state representative and former chief of staff at the Federal Housing Finance Agency
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Labor organizer, folk musician and farmland owner from West Union
What each candidate says they support or would do, on the issues they campaign on. Summaries use the same neutral words for everyone and link to the candidate’s own words.
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RepublicanJoe Mitchell
Supports a full ban on stock and prediction-market trading by members of Congress and term limits of 12 years in each chamber, and says he does not take corporate PAC money.
DemocraticLindsay James
Supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, banning stock trading by members of Congress and their families, a lifetime lobbying ban for former members, 12-year House term limits, and Supreme Court ethics rules; says she will never take corporate PAC money.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
Supports banning stock trading by members of Congress and an independent audit of American Rescue Plan Act state and local recovery spending.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
Supports securing the border, deporting criminal illegal immigrants and reforming immigration laws, and supports a temporary ban on H-1B visas.
DemocraticLindsay James
Supports investing in border security, adding immigration judges, a path to citizenship for hardworking, taxpaying people, and reforming ICE with new leadership and training.
LibertarianRick Stewart
Supports replacing the current immigration system with one in which vetted immigrants bid for lifetime green cards at auction, and says U.S. citizens rather than the government should decide refugee and humanitarian cases.
No PartyDave Bushaw
No published position found.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
Supports lowering costs and increasing price transparency while preserving key protections from the Affordable Care Act, and says prescription drug and insulin prices should be comparable to other developed countries.
DemocraticLindsay James
Opposes Medicare cuts and supports lowering the Medicare buy-in age to 55, letting Medicare negotiate all drug prices, reversing Medicaid cuts, price transparency from hospitals and insurers, and recruiting more doctors and nurses.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
Supports Medicare for All, replacing premiums, co-payments and deductibles with a payroll-tax-funded universal health care program.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
Supports K-12 schools focused on reading, writing, math and critical thinking with parents deciding what is best for their children, and tying federal college funding to transparency, cost control and outcomes.
DemocraticLindsay James
Opposes dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and supports vocational and apprenticeship programs in high schools and higher pay for teachers.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
Supports expanding early learning and Head Start programs, including passing the Head Start for America's Children Act, to improve childcare access for working families.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
Supports deregulating the homebuilding industry so builders can build more homes at lower cost.
DemocraticLindsay James
No published position found.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
Supports having the FTC investigate private equity firms' role in housing and rental markets, breaking up such firms, and reinstating a Glass-Steagall-style separation of commercial and investment banking.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
Would cut taxes for middle-class families and job creators and simplify the tax code.
DemocraticLindsay James
No published position found.
LibertarianRick Stewart
Supports abolishing the income tax and replacing it with a land tax based on the value of land.
No PartyDave Bushaw
No published position found.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
Supports cutting regulations on farmers, expanding access to global markets and boosting domestic fertilizer production.
DemocraticLindsay James
Supports passing a new farm bill, a national right-to-repair law, incentives for family farms to grow food crops, conservation practices such as cover crops, and ending tariffs she says have cost farmers foreign markets.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
No published position found.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
Supports voter ID laws and says only U.S. citizens should be able to vote, while making registration as easy as possible for eligible citizens.
DemocraticLindsay James
No published position found.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
Supports national citizen ballot referendums, making Election Day a federal holiday, increasing the size of the House, and a constitutional amendment limiting election spending to natural persons.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
No published position found.
DemocraticLindsay James
Supports cutting red tape and rolling back tariffs on building materials to build more homes, down payment help for first-time buyers, capping childcare costs as a share of income, paid family and medical leave, and a larger, fully refundable child tax credit.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
No published position found.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
No published position found.
DemocraticLindsay James
Supports restoring Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
No published position found.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
No published position found.
DemocraticLindsay James
Supports closing loopholes, mandatory violent-history checks, red flag laws and an assault weapons ban.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
No published position found.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
No published position found.
DemocraticLindsay James
No published position found.
LibertarianRick Stewart
Supports redirecting payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare and funding from other assistance programs into a monthly universal basic income for every citizen 18 and older, and eliminating welfare programs.
No PartyDave Bushaw
No published position found.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
No published position found.
DemocraticLindsay James
No published position found.
LibertarianRick Stewart
Supports a universal carbon tax whose revenue would be returned to everyone in participating countries as per-person rebates.
No PartyDave Bushaw
No published position found.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
No published position found.
DemocraticLindsay James
No published position found.
LibertarianRick Stewart
Supports eliminating all nuclear weapons, which he calls an existential threat.
No PartyDave Bushaw
No published position found.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
No published position found.
DemocraticLindsay James
No published position found.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
Supports ending right-to-work laws, closing worker misclassification loopholes, penalties for employers that violate workers' rights, and labor protections for farm workers.
RepublicanJoe Mitchell
No published position found.
DemocraticLindsay James
No published position found.
LibertarianRick Stewart
No published position found.
No PartyDave Bushaw
Supports national rules on train length and on how long trains can block crossings, and investing in modernizing railroad infrastructure.