Press Release

TO: Interested Parties FR: Dan Sena, DCCC Executive Director DT: April 3, 2018 RE: Take it Back: Democrats Have Clear Advantage in New District Polls It’s game time. Month by month, week by week, primaries will produce battle-tested and uniquely qualified Democratic candidates. And vulnerable House Republicans will be forced to face reality: According to […]

On Easter Sunday, President Trump took to Twitter to officially rule out a future DACA deal. This comes despite promising for months that he wanted to see a DACA solution for the more than 800,000 DREAMers protected under this critical program. This morning, the DCCC is calling on every one of these vulnerable Republicans representing […]

In case you missed it, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers refused to promise that she’d protect Social Security when asked at a town hall in her district. After McMorris Rodgers helped push through the GOP Tax Scam that will raise the deficit, setting the stage for cuts to Social Security, her constituents deserve to know where […]

It’s a New Year and a brand new Mike Bishop in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District. Bishop, who was outraised the past two quarters by national security leader Elissa Slotkin, is now desperately trying to re-brand himself and hide his positions on a variety of issues as he faces the toughest election battle of his career. […]

You may have noticed that yesterday Rep. Peter Roskam took a bizarre victory lap, claiming a “win” for Illinois taxpayers who stood in line to prepay their 2017 property taxes. Here is what you need to know: These families – well the ones who could afford to – stood in line in record numbers to […]

PENCE ON VIDEO: “Congressman Paulsen Has Been Fighting Everyday Shoulder to Shoulder with President Trump” In what might be one of the most unhelpful comments of the 2018 election cycle, Vice President Mike Pence today gave a full-throated endorsement of vulnerable Rep. Erik Paulsen, saying he has been “fighting everyday shoulder to shoulder with President […]

Speaker Ryan’s Super PAC confirmed exactly how worried they are about the re-election chances of freshman Congressman and Wall Street ally, Ted Budd, when they announced this morning they’re parachuting in to put “boots on the ground” in North Carolina’s 13th District. This move comes as Democratic challenger Kathy Manning outraised Budd and ended the […]

It’s unlike Congressman Curbelo to miss the chance to call himself a fighter for DREAMers and a champion for immigrants. But since the Trump Administration announced they had ignored the recommendations of experts and added, for the first time since 1950, a question on citizenship to the US Census, the Congressman has not only been […]

Vice President Mike Pence is in the Twin Cities to fundraise for vulnerable Reps. Erik Paulsen and Jason Lewis, and help sell their unpopular GOP Tax Scam to Minnesota voters. It’s the latest effort from the Trump administration and Speaker Paul Ryan to prop up two of the most vulnerable incumbents in the country who […]

With Congressman Ryan Costello’s retirement and rumors swirling about Speaker Ryan’s potential resignation, it’s worth a reminder that our Retirement Watch List has successfully predicted eight retirements before they happened: Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02) Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11) Ryan Costello (PA-06) Patrick Meehan (PA-07) Charlie Dent (PA-15) Dave Reichert (WA-08) Ed Royce (CA-39) Ron DeSantis (FL-06)   […]