SCOOP: Democratic congressional candidate runs from voting record in state legislature in misleading campaign ad

One of the Democratic Party’s top recruits for Congress is running from her voting record in the Iowa state legislature and is running an ad that her critics call misleading, at best.

Sarah Trone Garriott, who is challenging Rep. Zach Nunn (R., Iowa) in one of the most evenly-divided districts in America, claimed in a recent ad that she opposes “letting men in women’s locker rooms.” But a Washington Reporter review of Garriott’s voting record shows that she had several options to side with Republicans in the legislature but instead sided with the majority of Iowa Democrats.

In one vote, Garriott voted against “a bill for an act prohibiting persons from entering single and multiple occupancy restrooms or changing areas and other facilities in elementary and secondary schools that do not correspond with the person’s biological sex and including effective date provisions.” 

In another bill, Garriott opposed “a bill for an act relating to student eligibility requirements in school district, accredited nonpublic school, regent institution, community college, and certain other institution of higher education athletics based on sex, and including effective date provisions.”

Garriott’s campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Reporter about this apparent campaign trail hypocrisy. 

For months, Republicans have argued that Garriott’s track records in both the legislature and from her time as a Lutheran minister are fertile for the campaign trail. The Daily Wire’s Leif Le Mahieu previously reported that Garriott “once claimed that challenges to the traditional definitions of men and women are ‘very threatening’ to white men and downplayed concerns about the dangers of transgender ideology for women.”

“It’s really couched in the language of there’s a threat against women and white men are responsible to protect women from threats,” Garriott said. “So a lot of the legislation is about we’re going to protect these feminine, fragile, weak women and girls from a threat to their bodies, their persons, their identity in this way.”