{"id":17417,"date":"2024-03-29T12:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/dems-target-four-competitive-house-seats-to-wrestle-back-majority-from-gop\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:50:05","slug":"dems-target-four-competitive-house-seats-to-wrestle-back-majority-from-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/dems-target-four-competitive-house-seats-to-wrestle-back-majority-from-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems target four competitive House seats to wrestle back majority from GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Democrats are pouring money and resources into four congressional seats in a bid to win back the majority as the 2024 election cycle heats up.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm, announced a new slate of races for its \u2018Red to Blue\u2019 program. They\u2019re targeting vulnerable Republican lawmakers in California, New York and New Jersey, as well as an open California seat being vacated by Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif.<\/p>\n

\u2018I am excited to work with this diverse group of public servants, veterans, and leaders to take the House back in November,\u2019 DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., said in a Thursday statement. \u2018Their records of service stand in stark contrast to their extreme and dangerous far-right opponents.\u2019<\/p>\n

The \u2018Red To Blue\u2019 program is dedicated to ensuring its selected candidates \u2018receive strategic guidance, staff resources, training, and fundraising support to ensure they are in the best possible position to win in November.\u2019<\/p>\n

Democrats\u2019 laser focus on vulnerable GOP seats, including lawmakers who represent districts won by President Biden in 2020, comes as the House Republican majority prepares to grapple with just a one-seat margin of power after multiple early departures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In California\u2019s 45th Congressional District, Democrats are targeting Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Calif., by bolstering Army veteran and business owner Derek Tran.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Tran is equipped to deliver that message to the voters in this diverse Biden +6.8 district with a broad coalition of support, impressive fundraising apparatus, and compelling contrast with the far-right incumbent,\u2019 the DCCC said.<\/p>\n

Steel campaign spokesman Lance Trover responded, \u2018There\u2019s only one candidate in CA_45 who\u2019s committed to not voting for higher taxes on working families and that\u2019s Michelle Steel \u2013 Derek Tran won\u2019t make that commitment to Southern Californians because he supports raising taxes.\u2019<\/p>\n

Democrats are also hoping to keep control of Porter\u2019s seat after she announced her departure from the House for an ill-fated Senate bid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The DCCC is eyeing California state Sen. Dave Min as her replacement, calling him a \u2018proven vote-getter and common-sense champion for the middle class.\u2019 He\u2019s running against former California state Assemblyman Scott Baugh, who has been endorsed by GOP leaders.<\/p>\n

\u2018It seems that House Democrats are admitting what we already know,\u2019 Baugh told Fox News Digital. \u2018That CA-47 is no longer a blue seat. We will win this seat in November because Dave Min is a radical left-wing legislator who is very out of touch with this district.\u2019<\/p>\n

On the East Coast, the DCCC is hoping to flip New Jersey\u2019s 7th Congressional District back to blue after it was won by first-term Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. in November 2022, who unseated a Democratic incumbent. To do so, it\u2019s bolstering Sue Altman, a former teacher and former state director of the leftist Working Families Party.<\/p>\n

Kean\u2019s campaign told Fox News Digital that Altman \u2018is going to cost Democrat stakeholders like the DCCC a lot of campaign dollars trying to run away from her record as head of the Working Families Party in New Jersey where she advocated for insane policies like defunding the police.\u2019<\/p>\n

And the Long Island, New York, seat in the 4th Congressional District currently held by first-term Republican Rep. Anthony D\u2019Esposito is also on the DCCC\u2019s list, with Democrats promoting former local official Laura Gillen to flip the district blue.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Esposito\u2019s campaign told Fox News Digital, \u2018While Congressman D\u2019Esposito continues to put the interests of Nassau County neighbors ahead of partisan politics, perennial candidate Laura Gillen wants to be a rubber stamp vote in favor of Joe Biden\u2019s reckless spending and pro-criminal open borders agenda.\u2019<\/p>\n

Referencing past reports about each of the candidates, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) said of the Democrats\u2019 list, \u2018A\u00a0drunk-driving\u00a0politician, an\u00a0ambulance-chasing\u00a0lawyer, a\u00a0perennial\u00a0candidate and a\u00a0radical progressive activist\u00a0would make for a great cast on a Bravo reality show.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2018However, watching them on CSPAN greenlight every liberal pipedream from defunding the police to even more open-border policies would be a nightmare for American families,\u2019 the NRCC said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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House Democrats are pouring money and resources into four congressional seats in a bid to win back the majority as the 2024 election cycle heats up. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm, announced a new slate of races for its \u2018Red to Blue\u2019 program. They\u2019re targeting vulnerable Republican lawmakers in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}