2022 race briefing
Axne is a small business owner who runs a digital design firm. She worked for the Iowa state government from 2005 to 2014 and earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School after graduating from the University of Iowa.
She won Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District in 2018 with 49.3% of the vote and was re-elected in 2020 with 48.9%. In 2022 she was unopposed in the June 7 Democratic primary, then lost the November 8 general election to Zach Nunn by 50.3% to 49.6%, a margin of about 2,100 votes.
PolRev covered her 2022 campaign.