Democrats have an ambitious plan to retake the House in the 2018 midterm elections. But they’re not just looking to grab the 24 seats needed to take control of the lower chamber. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a much bigger goal: taking back 101 House seats from Republicans in November.
The seven modern targets push Democrats even further into Republican territory in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Texas. And they include the Ohio seat held by the man charged with defending the GOP majority, Rep. Steve Stivers, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. (Republicans are also targeting Lujan.)
The DCCC’s polling of key districts outperformed national trends, showing that President Donald Trump is underwater not only in the 23 GOP districts that Hillary Clinton won, but also in more than 60 districts that Trump won, as well as 11 that were vacant after he retired.
Democrats are now running candidates in all but 12 of the 238 districts that Republicans hold, Lujan said, including those in like Alabamawhere Democrats are competing in every district for the first time in years. The idea is to expand the map as much as possible and hope to capitalize on a potential wave. (NBC)
“We have a long way to go and we won’t take anything for granted, but we are well on track to take back the House in November,” DCCC Chairman Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) said in a statement.
“I know momentum when I see it,” he later told NBC News. “History is on our side, data is on our side.”
