House Democrats Pick 12 Candidates to Back in ‘Red to Blue’ Initiative
The DCCC describes the initiative as “highly competitive” and only the top-tier candidates gain access.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) added 12 candidates to its “Red to Blue” initiative in an attempt to retake the House in 2026.
The mission is obvious. The Democrats want to flip these districts from red to blue.
So creative!
The DCCC describes the initiative as “highly competitive,” and only the top-tier candidates gain access.
“Candidates earn a spot in the program by surpassing aggressive goals for grassroots engagement, local support, campaign organization, and fundraising,” according to the DCCC press release.
The candidates are and the incumbent:
- AZ-02 – Jonathan Nez (Eli Crane)
- AZ-06 – JoAnna Mendoza< (Juan Ciscomani)/li>
- IA-01 – Christina Bohannan (Mariannette Miller-Meeks)
- IA-03 – Sarah Trone Garriott (Zach Nunn)
- MI-04 – Sean McCann (Bill Huizenga)
- NC-11 – Jamie Ager (Chuck Edwards)
- PA-08 – Paige Cognetti (Rob Bresnahan Jr.)
- PA-10 – Janelle Stelson (Scott Perry)
- TN-05 – Chaz Molder (Andy Ogles)
- VA-01 – Shannon Taylor (Rob Wittman)
- VA-02 – Elaine Luria (Jennifer Kiggans)
- WI-03 – Rebecca Cooke (Derrick Van Orden)
Luria represented Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District from 2019 to 2023 but lost to Kiggans in 2022.
President Donald Trump won AZ-02 and TN-05 by double digits in 2024.
TN-05 could pose a problem for Republicans, as Ogles is facing an FBI investigation for alleged campaign fraud.
Federal prosecutors withdrew the charges at the end of January.
Molder, a former mayor of Columbia, TN, has raised more money than Ogles, too.
Bohannan almost flipped IA-01 in 2024. Trump won the district by eight points.
“Some of our candidates defeated Republican incumbents in a tough environment, and a handful of our candidates fell just short,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, according to The Washington Post. “Now, we’re in a position to build upon that over performance in 2024 and finish the job decisively.”
Jeffries considers the candidates “common sense Democrats.”
Unfortunately, the Cook Political Report has 14 Republican Congressional seats in its toss-up category. The organization has only four Democratic seats.
Regarding Republican-held seats, the Cook Political Report also put NE-02 as a lean Democrat and UT-01 as a solid Democrat.
However, Democrat-held seats, NC-01 leans Republican, while ME-02 and TX-35 are likely Republican.
Still…not enough to counter the Democrats.
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Please don’t give VA Elaine Luria back.
Make sure you encourage your family, both dead and alive, to vote and vote often!
Why w l uld you support a party with this kind of contempt for you? Gov hairdo said he was stupid like blacks because he didn’t have good SAT scores.
But, he IS clean, articulate, well-groomed and dressed…
Also, to paraphrase Harry Reid, he is a light-skinned white man who doesn’t speak with a Negro dialect, unless he wants to.
The way to win in this cycle is to nationalize the Congressional and Senate races. The demonrats want to tear down our republic to the studs and totally rebuild the constitution in their image. They will get rid of the filibuster entirely. Pack the courts and attempt to instill one party rule. Just look at the west coast states to see the dystopian future of 1 party rule.
You forgot universal amnesty.
The dims have been sniping at my Congresscritter Ciscomani since last summer with the passage of the BBB.
He’s got my vote.
the bluecoats are winning the local races and when they dont its usually a rino that is willing to work with them,,that wins
maga loses
Never to soon to start praying. Looks like Republicans will need it.
It’s a “GOP “red” to Dhimmi-crat neo-communist “red” ” initiative.
I see Ghetto Barbie in the picture but not on the list. I wonder if she has finally realized the Dems know how toxic she is to their party and want her gone
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