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WASHINGTON House Democrats are stepping on the gas, with plans to target over 100 Republican-held congressional districts in the November midterm elections.
At House Democrats' annual conference on Thursday, Rep. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), is expected to tell colleagues the committee is expanding the battleground to include 101 Republicans the largest in a decade, a Democratic source familiar with the matter told NBC News.
The seven new targets push Democrats even deeper into Republican territory in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Texas. And they include the Ohio seat held by the man charged with defending the GOP's majority, Rep. Steve Stivers, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. (Republicans are also targeting Lujan.)
The DCCC's own polling of key districts has been more promising than national trends, showing President Donald Trump underwater not just in the 23 GOP-held districts Hillary Clinton won, but also in the more than 60 districts Trump won, and the 11 where retirements have left the seat open.
Democrats are now fielding candidates in all but 12 of the 238 districts held by Republicans, according to Lujan, including in places like Alabama, where Democrats are competing in every single district for the first time in years. The idea is to expand the map as much as possible and hope to ride the potential wave.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/democrats-vs-trump/democrats-expand-battleground-target-101-gop-seats-n845871
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)Sure the game is rigged, but you can't win if you don't play.
Every seat from county to country should be challenged.
RandySF
(59,345 posts)The DCCC will play where they can afford to spend, but it doesn't cost the grassroots that much to find candidates elsewhere.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)The DCCC has an obligation to donors to use their money as effectively as can be determined.