Going into the fall election, Gibbs will face Democrat Hillary Scholten, a Grand Rapids lawyer who was unopposed in that party's primary and who is a former Obama-era Justice Department attorney who ran against Meijer in 2020, losing by 6 percentage points. In the interim, the 3rd Congressional District has since been redrawn and is now considered more Democratic leaning, which could benefit Scholten, especially against the lesser-known — and more Trump-aligned — Republican nominee.