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Today, voters across the country are casting their ballots in key battleground House races, and House Democrats remain in a strong position to retake the majority.
DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene joined NPR’s Morning Edition to discuss Democrats’ many paths to victory and the energy on the ground from voters rallying behind Democrats’ message of lowering costs, growing the middle class, and defending freedoms.
Read more from Chair DelBene’s conversation below:
NPR: Control of the White House and Congress rest on voters’ decisions
Michel Martin | November 5, 2024
We’re in an incredibly strong position all across the country, because we have races in New York and California, but we also have them in Iowa, Nebraska, in Oregon, and Alabama, so all over the country, and we have incredible candidates, and people are looking for folks who want to govern, who are going to represent their communities and work to get things done.
Those are the folks that we have running across the country who are going to stand up for our rights and our freedoms, protect reproductive freedom, stand up to build an economy that works for everyone in this country, and govern. It’s a strong argument. People understand that Republicans aren’t focused on the issues that people care about, and you see that on the ground.
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We are looking at purple districts across the country, and so these are districts where they could potentially elect a Democrat or a Republican. The reason I think Democrats win here is because we have candidates who are standing up for these communities and are listening to many differing points of view and coming together to make decisions that are best for their communities. And we also have folks who want to govern, who understand that to get stuff done in Washington, DC, you’ve got to get things through the House, through the Senate, and to the President’s desk, and they’re coming to govern.
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We are fighting to move our country forward, fighting for the American people. You’ve seen this Congress, the chaos, dysfunction, and extremism, the Republicans almost shutting down the government a few times, but the reason we kept getting through those was because Democrats stood up in the minority to help move legislation to keep the government running to prevent us from defaulting. So these are all things that we’ve already been working on. In the majority, with the gavels, we’ll continue to do that: to focus on governing and getting things done.
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