The National Republican Congressional Committee on Monday outlined the 37 districts it views as potential pick-up opportunities for next year’s elections.
The list includes Democrats who flipped seats last year in districts Joe Biden lost in 2020, like Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in Washington’s 3rd District and Mary Peltola in Alaska’s at-large seat. It also includes swing districts where Democratic incumbents held off Republican challengers in November. And it includes open seats in California and Michigan, where Reps. Katie Porter and Elissa Slotkin, respectively, are running for Senate.
“Republicans are in the majority and on offense,” NRCC Chairman Richard Hudson said in a statement. “We will grow our House majority by building strong campaigns around talented recruits in these districts who can communicate the dangers of Democrats’ extreme agenda.”
Republicans won a four-seat majority in last year’s midterms, enough to win back the speaker’s gavel but a thinner victory than some operatives and members had hoped for. Now, Republicans will be trying to flip seats to add to their majority in a presidential year and in many states with competitive Senate races, including Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The GOP list comes days after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee named 29 members to its Frontline program, which provides extra fundraising and messaging help to candidates defending difficult seats.
There are several members who appear on both lists, but Republicans are putting some Democrats who were not designated for the Frontline program on notice, like North Carolina’s Jeff Jackson, a freshman who won by 15 points in the 14th District last year. North Carolina’s map is still in flux, with a court ruling that led to the configuration that helped Democrats pick up two seats in 2022 being reargued after the GOP won a majority on the state Supreme Court in the same election.
Also on the NRCC target list is Rhode Island Rep. Seth Magaziner, who defeated a top Republican recruit by 4 points last year to hold on to a blue seat.
In addition to Gluesenkamp Perez, Peltola, Jackson and Magaziner, and the open seats in California and Michigan, the NRCC target list includes:
- Josh Harder and Mike Levin of California
- Yadira Caraveo of Colorado
- Jahana Hayes of Connecticut
- Darren Soto of Florida
- Eric Sorensen of Illinois
- Frank J. Mrvan of Indiana
- Sharice Davids of Kansas
- Jared Golden of Maine
- Hillary Scholten and Dan Kildee of Michigan
- Angie Craig of Minnesota
- Don Davis and Wiley Nickel of North Carolina
- Chris Pappas of New Hampshire
- Gabriel Vasquez of New Mexico
- Dina Titus, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford of New Mexico
- Pat Ryan of New York
- Greg Landsman, Marcy Kaptur and Emilia Sykes of Ohio,
- Val Hoyle and Andrea Salinas of Oregon
- Susan Wild, Matt Cartwright and Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania
- Vicente Gonzalez of Texas
- Abigail Spanberger of Virginia
- Kim Schrier of Washington
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