NEW: Lori Chavez-DeRemer Named as One of Roll Call’s ’10 Most Vulnerable’

Today, the non-partisan CQ Roll Call placed Lori Chavez-DeRemer and six other Republicans on its list of the top ten most vulnerable House members.

Chavez-DeRemer has spent the first four months of this Congress siding with far-right extremists, failing to protect abortion rights, protecting wealthy tax cheats, airing political grievances, and pushing America toward a catastrophic default in order to advance an extreme agenda that jeopardizes American jobs, guts food security programs, and threatens veterans’ benefits.

From the Roll Call analysis:

Chavez-DeRemer flipped a redrawn battlefield district in Oregon that stretches from the Portland suburbs to rural areas in the southern and eastern parts of the state. A former mayor and state representative, Chavez-DeRemer emphasized crime and inflation during her first run, when she defeated progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner, who had ousted Rep. Kurt Schrader in the Democratic primary. Chavez-DeRemer and Democratic Rep. Andrea Salinas are the first Latinas elected to Congress from Oregon, and the two freshmen have worked together on agriculture issues. Chavez-DeRemer raised about $635,000 in the first three months of 2023. No Democrat has officially jumped in, but the race to unseat her could get crowded.

With only a five seat majority, this analysis highlights the extreme fragility of Speaker McCarthy’s position as he heads into a competitive 2024 election cycle bogged down by MAGA extremists and chaos in his Conference.

DCCC Spokesperson Jacob Haythorn:
“Lori Chavez-DeRemer is spending her time in Congress voting to cut veterans’ benefits, push our economy closer to catastrophic default, and trigger a job-killing recession. She will be held accountable for their chaos and flagrant disregard for the needs of working Oregonians.”

Lori Chavez-DeRemer is one of 18 House Republicans representing a district President Biden won in 2020 and is on the DCCC’s 2024 list of offensive targets.

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