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- The House battleground is very, very large, but I think some of our top opportunities we’re looking at this cycle are…places like Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan. In addition to that, we have some really exciting races in places like Wisconsin, we have incumbents we’ll be protecting in Ohio, North Carolina, Nevada.
- I’m excited to be in this role and help to, to your point, advise and guide, not only guide our candidates and campaigns in this role, but our committee and House leadership writ large about how we go about taking back the House and what that looks like, including engaging voters of color across the battlefield, especially Black voters, kind of earlier and often. As we know as Black people, for a long time, that wasn’t happening across parties and across communities.
- So as far as our Black voter engagement and outreach, you know, I think we know what works…I will note that House Democrats actually were able to overperform generally across the map, but also with Black voters, and especially in places like the Midwest where, you know, I’m from Ohio, and a lot of people, I think, forget that Black people do live in the Midwest too.
- We’re talking to folks and making the case about, you know, how Democrats can make their lives better, what’s going on on the day to day, the things we’re doing to lower costs, to make sure people can afford health care, to make sure that small businesses have the support that they need, that people are able to get quality education in this country, the things that we know the Black voters care most about, and we’ll be doing it in ways that we know work.
- What voters care most about is their day to day lives, right? The things that are impacting them, like lowering the cost of groceries, making sure that people can afford their day to day goods and needs, the cost of housing in this country, and what it’s doing to people’s pocketbooks, the impact of childcare. All of those things are the things that we know are really, really important to people, and we’ll be talking about throughout the trail as folks are hitting the campaign trail.
- People want their circumstances to change. People don’t want the chaos that they are seeing as far as their retirements being affected, if they can retire at all, and things like that that we know is happening because this Administration is chaotic. So we’re hearing a lot from people about just what that feels like as they see it. And they want people to come into office and get things done.
- I think most voters care more about what you’re going to do to make their lives better when it comes down to what they want to hear, especially from congressional members.
- I’ll note our first actual ads out of the DCCC this cycle were actually in California, focused on AANHPI voters. They were in various languages, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, talking about the economy, talking about the impact on small businesses and what’s happening across this country.
- We’ve been making the case to people about what the actual impact of the [GOP Tax Scam] is as they look to take health care away from millions and millions of Americans so they can give taxpayer dollars to billionaires across this country, and making sure that they are just getting the rich richer at the expense of the vast majority of Americans.
- We’ve been doing town halls across the country while Republicans are not. We’ve been going to their districts to hold town halls because they won’t talk to and hear from the American people, and they’re afraid to face them because of what they know they’re doing. And so we’ll be doing more things like that throughout the cycle. I think people will see exactly the kind of fight that Democrats have and the vision that Democrats have for the country.
- We are always happy at the DCCC to engage with the Black press, and I thank you for having me and being able to talk about this…As a Black person, the first Black political director at our organization, I’m always excited to talk to Black people about what we’ll be doing.
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