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House Democrat group claims party ‘will retake the majority in 2024,’ reveals GOP seats it hopes to flip
After dropping the bulk within the Home of Representatives, Democrats are already plotting a course for 2024 and taking purpose at a number of Republican-won districts they are going to try and flip subsequent cycle.
The Home Majority PAC (HMP) on Tuesday launched a report, “After Defying the Odds, Home Democrats Will Retake the Majority In 2024,” touting the 2022 election cycle simply two weeks after Democrats misplaced their majority within the midterms.
“Home Majority PAC might be ready to take again the Home in 2024, and Republicans ought to begin planning at hand again the gavel,” HMP, the committee centered on electing Democratic Home candidates, wrote in a memo laying out 2024 plans, which was first reported by Axios.
Together with a glance again on Democrats’ efficiency, the report named 19 pink districts they are going to place heavy deal with subsequent cycle, although HMP stated the record was preliminary and can be expanded.
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One of many districts on the Democrats’ hit record is Virginia’s 2nd District, the place Congresswoman-elect Jen Kiggans not too long ago unseated Democrat Elaine Luria.
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One other goal for Democrats is blue state New York’s seventeenth Congressional District, the place Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney was defeated by Mike Lawler within the November midterm elections.
The Democratic Celebration spent lots of of hundreds of thousands campaigning on abortion this cycle, pouring extra into that topic than another concern, together with crime and the financial system. The HMP claimed that “within the battle of messaging, Democrats received.”
With inflation hitting a 40-year excessive of 9.1% in the summertime earlier than the election, HMP stated that when Democrats started switching their place on the financial system, talking on offense, the celebration noticed a notable improve in help.
After testing political messages in August, HMP stated the profitable framing for political advertisements was to convey that “a Democrat cares in regards to the financial system whereas the Republican needs to ban abortion.”
The discharge additionally took purpose on the Congressional Management Fund’s spending this cycle, claiming it spent about $150 million on dropping races.
Home Democrats are seeing main modifications inside the celebration this month, first dropping their majority after which Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saying her determination to step down from Home management.
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Republicans now maintain 220 Home seats, exceeding the 218 wanted to safe a majority, whereas the Democratic Celebration holds 212 seats. There are nonetheless three Home races left in play greater than two weeks after Election Day.
The record of GOP-held seats on the Democrats’ 2024 radar embrace: AZ-01, AZ-06, CA-27, CA-40, CA-41, CA-45, IA-03, MI-10, NE-02, NJ-07, NY-01, NY-03, NY-04, NY-17, NY-19, NY-22, OR-05, PA-01 and VA-02.