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Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-DCCC Retirement Watch List) calling it quits, rather than face the toughest race of his political career, makes four Texas Republican retirements in a span of two weeks. Republicans may call it a “feature, not a bug,” but we call it the Texodus. Not only are these retirements a reaction to the […]

Targeted Ads to Run in Both Spanish and English Across the Central Valley Today, the DCCC announced the launch of a targeted digital ad buy in California’s 21st Congressional District. The ads highlight rejected Congressman David Valadao’s choice to side with President Trump 98% of the time while in Congress and his votes to strip […]

Spano campaign: “The FEC is looking into the situation with the loans” Ross Spano’s long-simmering “Loangate” scandal is beginning to boil over. This morning, the Tampa Bay Times reported that the embattled congressman was hit with new complaints to the Office of Congressional Ethics and Federal Election Commission. At issue is the “bank loan” Spano […]

After String of Demoralizing Retirements, Aggressive Campaign of Field Operations And Digital Ads Will Keep Pressure on Vulnerable Republicans   Republicans limped out of July (or at least some did), but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s ‘August Accountability’ Project is keeping the pressure on them this month. “August Accountability” is the latest project in the […]

The fourth Texas Republican to announce his retirement, Rep. Marchant (TX-24) was on the DCCC’s 2020 Retirement Watch List “The DCCC started this cycle by going on offense, and the reality for vulnerable Washington Republicans of defending their deeply unpopular health care repeal agenda is setting in for Republican incumbents from Kenny Marchant to Will […]

Dems have been putting up record fundraising numbers and strong new candidates while GOP scrambles to keep “wave” of retirements from turning into a “tsunami” We are officially in August, but House Republicans’ July is going to leave a mark. Let’s take this point by point: Half a dozen prominent GOP members, including Will Hurd (!), have […]

Think back to the last two weeks. In less than 14 days, 6 different Republicans — including Will “Future of the Republican Party” Hurd — have announced they’re done explaining their party’s deeply unpopular health care repeal agenda, and they’re done with the misery of life in the minority. In the last two weeks we […]

As the age-old saying in political campaigning goes, “Elections are won in the off-year.” Following their embarrassing sweep last November, apparently the Orange County GOP and their candidates for Congress have not taken this lesson to heart. As reported by the Capistrano Dispatch, Orange County Congressional Democrats—have raked in $4.47 million from donors, out earning […]

Three top-tier elections forecasters shift TX-23 to “Lean Democratic” as GOP morale plummets Congressmen John Carter (TX-31), Kenny Marchant (TX-24) and Mike McCaul (TX-10) are sweating bullets this morning, but it’s not from the Texas heat. Will Hurd’s stunning decision to hang up his spurs marked the sixth Republican retirement of the last two weeks […]

Hurd is the sixth Republican in two weeks to throw in the towel DCCC Spokesperson Avery Jaffe issued the following statement tonight after Congressman Will Hurd (TX-23) announced his retirement from Congress. “Like we said last week, Republicans across the Lone Star State are terrified of losing their seats in 2020 and Will Hurd just […]