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Weekly House Cleaning A DCCC News Roundup This Week’s Winners: Donald Trump (and Lindsey Graham) This Week’s Losers: Speaker Paul Ryan and NRCC Chairman Greg Walden THE PRESIDENTIAL SHINE SUMMARY OF THE WEEK: Donald Trump is a forest fire raging within the Republican Party, fueled by the overwhelmingly passionate support of the rapid Republican voter […]

 Syracuse.com reports: “Former Syracuse police sergeant and U.S. Rep. John Katko staffer Thomas Connellan has been charged with grand larceny, according to Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick. Connellan is accused of stealing ‘well over $3,000’ from 2011 to 2014 from the state Department of Financial Services while being paid as a Syracuse police officer.” […]

DCCC Sends FedEx package to Rubio’s Leesburg Campaign Office Ahead of Comstock’s Meet & Greet Ahead of Congresswoman Barbara Comstock’s meet and greet with Senator Rubio’s supporters, the DCCC sent Sen. Rubio’s Leesburg headquarters a FedEx package filled with articles highlighting her anti-immigrant record and offensive statements on American immigrants. Rep. Comstock infamously compared immigrants […]

“Each day the Republican Party comes closer to making Donald Trump their nominee, especially now that establishment Republicans like Chris Christie are hopping on the Trump train. This is another bad round of news for the NRCC and Paul Ryan, whose own pollsters made clear that Trump at the top of the ticket would be […]

SHOT: Meehan Endorsed Chris Christie For President, Served As National Finance Chair. [chrischristie.com, 7/22/15] CHASER: Chris Christie Endorsed Donald Trump For President [New York Times, 2/26/16] “According to the laws of the transitive property, Congressman Meehan could soon endorse Donald Trump for the Presidency.  Since Congressman Meehan was still undecided as of yesterday, will he […]

The reviews of last night’s hot mess of a GOP presidential debate are in: Rowdy, Unruly, Raucous, Chaotic. Sounds eerily similar to Speaker Ryan’s House Republican Caucus, the dysfunction of which continues to rival that of its party’s presidential primary. The self-described “budget guy’s” months-long campaign to return the House to “regular order” was dealt […]

Similar releases went out to multiple of our targeted Republican districts. Tired of the Republican Senate already shirking their Constitutional responsibility to hold an up-or-down vote on President Obama’s eventual Supreme Court nominee, Congressman Richard Hanna (NY-22) became the first GOP Congressman to condemn this cynical ploy. Congressman Will Hurd has yet to do the […]

DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Luján released the following statement ahead of the CNN/Telemundo debate this evening at the University of Houston: “I am pleased that the Republican presidential candidates will be participating in the Telemundo debate tonight, but it is clear that their positions on issues that matter to the Latino community will continue to […]

Hardy Expected to Take Notes on Anti-Immigration Platform After his terrible performance on MSNBC as a Marco Rubio surrogate yesterday, Cresent Hardy will be watching the last Republican debate before Super Tuesday very, very closely. After tonight’s CNN/Telemundo debate, Hardy’s notebook will be full of Rubio’s extreme anti-immigration positions, which include ruling out a pathway […]

In case Congressman Carlos Curbelo is too busy hover boarding tonight to watch his preferred presidential candidate Marco Rubio in the last Republican debate before Super Tuesday, here’s a quick spoiler alert for the Congressman. Tonight during the CNN/Telemundo debate, Rubio will no doubt double down on his extreme, Trump-like positions on immigration – a […]