DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene sat down with FOX News recently to discuss the growing momentum among voters who will power House Democrats to win back the majority in next year’s midterm elections.
Citing recent election results and public polling that show an ever-increasing share of the public souring on Republicans’ failure to lower costs while securing giveaways for the ultrawealthy, DelBene made the case why Democrats were poised to win the House Majority next year. DelBene specifically called out Republican policies from sweeping, price-hiking tariffs to a health care crisis that will rip health care away from millions, and that the DCCC would be aggressively holding vulnerable House Republicans every day between now and the midterms.
See highlights from Chair DelBene’s conversation below:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) chair says Democrats will keep their focus squarely on affordability as they aim to “take back those gavels” by capturing the House majority in next year’s midterm elections.
House Democrats need to flip just three GOP-held seats in 2026 to win back control of the chamber for the first time in four years.
“We’re going to hold Republicans accountable for their policies that are hurting American families,” Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington State, who for a second straight election cycle is chairing the DCCC, said in an exclusive national news network interview with Fox News Digital.
“Affordability is still the number one issue for families. Housing, food, health care, child care, energy costs all going up directly as a result of policies put in place by Republicans in Congress and Donald Trump. And they promised to lower costs on day one,” DelBene said.
DelBene argued that it’s “Republican policies that are hurting American families, the tariffs that Donald Trump has put in place that have raised costs for families across the country, their ongoing work to gut health care across this country.”
And she charged the “policies that they have prioritized have been favoring the wealthy and the well-connected, tax breaks for the wealthy and the well-connected, but hurting working families across the country. People are feeling that, and we’re going to continue to call that out.”
DelBene was interviewed as a trio of new national polls indicated Democrats with the upper hand in the 2026 battle for the House majority.
“Our number one goal is making sure that we take back those gavels. Have Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, actually have a congress, a House of Representatives, that’s going to work for the American people and do their job as a check on this administration,” DelBene emphasized.
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