Meet the ‘Wicked Witch of Woke’ and the ‘Queen of DEI’ Looking to Take Key GOP Seats 

Two progressive Midwest candidates are moving forward as the Democratic Party picks for the U.S. House of Representatives in Iowa. The women’s pasts are proof the party is sticking with woke ideology that may not align with nearly 80% of Iowa.

Sarah Trone Garriott, seeking to unseat Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa; and Christina Bohannan, seeking to unseat Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa; will be the Democratic candidates on the ticket in November after winning their primaries Tuesday night.

“Instead of trying to appeal to hardworking people, they are running the Wicked Witch of Woke [Trone Garriott] and the Queen of DEI [Bohannan], who are in an open competition with each other to see who can insult Iowa values more and prove they are the true left-wing lunatic,” Republican National Committee spokesman Zach Kraft told the Daily Signal.

The ‘Wicked Witch of Woke’

In a resurfaced podcast clip, Trone Garriott, a white woman, said she was “uncomfortable” with large populations of white people.

“Yeah, I remember the first time I came back to northern Minnesota to visit, and I was kind of shocked at how many white people there were. … I was like ‘whoa,’ and again I was uncomfortable in a different way,” she said.

Nearly 85% of the population in Iowa is white.

Trone Garriott is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, though she and the church have conflicting views with mainstream Christianity. The progressive church focuses its teaching on social statements such as supporting abortion, human sexuality, and gender justice.

The minister has even admitted she is uncomfortable with the phrase “one nation under God, indivisible,” taken from the Pledge of Allegiance.

“This is not a Christian nation. It’s a nation for all of us,” Trone Garriott told her church congregants.

“Every time Sarah Trone Garriott tells Iowans she’s uncomfortable with them, defends witchcraft, and votes to put men in girls’ sports, Zach’s coalition for common sense grows,” Mark Matava, a spokesman for Nunn, told the Daily Signal.

“Zach Nunn is a fighter for Iowa. He’s won one of the most competitive districts in the country twice by building a coalition of Republicans, Democrats, and independents more interested in results than lectures,” Matava continued.

The ‘Queen of DEI’

This is Bohannan’s third attempt at unseating Miller-Meeks, though the past two elections have been razor-thin. In 2022, she lost by 6.8% of the vote. But in 2024, she came just shy by 0.2%.

Democrats are giving her a third chance, though she is not stepping away from her two-time unsuccessful policies.

The former law professor believes diversity, equity, and inclusion implementation in classrooms is the answer to solving “systemic racism,” and that if Iowa goes against it, the state is “backwards.”

“She doesn’t represent Iowa values, she rejects them,” a spokesperson for Miller-Meeks’ campaign told the Daily Signal. “Iowa isn’t backwards; Christina Bohannan is just a radical leftist who is completely out of touch with the people she wants to represent.”

“[Bohannan] wants to defund the police, believes men should play in women’s sports, and refused to support tax relief for Iowa seniors.”

Trone Garriott and Bohannan did not respond to the Daily Signal’s requests for comment.