With less than a month to go until the November midterms, both parties have blanketed the airwaves with campaign ads in battleground states as they seek control over Congress. In Iowa, New Hampshire and North Carolina — three of the most competitive Senate races in the country — candidates and groups supporting them have all spent millions on ads faulting their opposition with failing to curb the cost of living, a top issue for voters, among other attacks. _“Here are the facts. It’s Ashley Hinson who’s missed nearly 200 votes in Congress.
Votes to crack down on child pornography, reduce crime and lower health care costs.”_ — Senate Majority PAC, a top Democratic super PAC, in an ad that began airing in September **This is misleading.**Representative Ashley Hinson, the Republican Senate candidate in Iowa, and various groups supporting her candidacy have spent millions of dollars on ads attacking Josh Turek, a state representative and the Democratic nominee, for missing 58 percent of votes in the Iowa legislature this year (the claim is accurate). Turek and groups that support him have retorted that Ms. Hinson, too, has a record of absenteeism in the House — including missing votes to lower health care costs — by making an apples-to-oranges comparison.
The Senate Majority PAC cited Ms. Hinson missing 33 roll-call votes — or recorded votes on the House floor — as well as 163 votes in various committees she sits on since January 2021, when she first entered office. But typically, a missed vote refers to a roll-call vote on the House floor, and Ms.
Hinson actually has a better attendance record than most members of Congress. According to GovTrack, a nonprofit website that tracks congressional activities, Ms. Hinson has missed 33 of 2,915 roll-call votes from January 2021 to September 2026.
That’s about 1.1 percent, less than the median of 2.1 percent among current members in the House. This year, she has missed five out of 314 votes, about 1.6 percent. Representative Ashley Hinson, a Republican running for Senate in Iowa, has a lower rate of missing roll-call votes than most current members of the House.Credit...KC McGinnis for The New York Times “A missed vote is a missed vote, and Ashley Hinson missed nearly 200 of them during her time in Congress,” Lauren French, a spokeswoman for the Democratic group, said in a statement.
The tally in the ad included missed committee votes. Hinson missed a roll-call vote in the House Appropriations Committee on a specific proposal to increase funding for community-based violence prevention programs (the motion failed 28 to 34). Senate Majority PAC said Ms.
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