Nicole Hasso, candidate for Congress in Iowa's 3rd District | Facebook
Nicole Hasso, candidate for Congress in Iowa's 3rd District | Facebook
Nicole Hasso, of Johnston, has entered the race for Iowa's third congressional seat.
She is the second Republican candidate to enter the race and describes herself as a conservative Republican and grew up in the impoverished area of South Side Chicago, said an MSN article.
Her Facebook page is up and running with Hasso seeking donations for her campaign.
"I'm running for IA-3 because I know the value of hard work and preserving the American Dream," Hasso said on her Facebook page. "Despite growing up surrounded by poverty, I've been able to achieve the American Dream."
Hasso attended Drake University on an academic scholarship and now works in financial services, said the MSN article on her campaign. She was the first in her family to have graduated high school.
In her video announcement, Hasso said her circumstances growing up were difficult and her mother battled drug addiction.
She said, "Too many people think that, without special treatment and big government, your skin color, your gender and your ZIP code — not your choices — decide your destiny. But I choose differently. I was the author of my own story, and I thank God every day that that story brought me here, to Iowa."
Republicans led in a recent generic poll for the third district 44% to 39%, according to the National Republican Congressional Committee. Additionally, 69% of the district’s voters want to lower taxes or leave them the same.
Current U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, a Democrat, has voted to raise taxes at the federal level, including President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan, as detailed on GovTrack. Reuters reports the proposed tax increases in the plan would bring the country back to "levels roughly equal to the United States’ historical average since the early 1960s."
Axne has not yet announced whether she will seek reelection, according to the National Republican Congressional Committee.
The other Republican to formally enter the race is state representative Mary Ann Hanusa, who announced her candidacy in May, says the MSN article.
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