House Democrats lay out their targets for 2026 battle

The Democrats of the House of Representatives are fixing their gaze in some districts that President Donald Trump easily won in November, since they establish their main objectives while seeking to recover the house next year.

The campaign committee of the Democratic Congress announced Tuesday that it is aimed at 35 seats from the Chamber of Republican Representatives, noting that the recent profits in special elections have suggested An electoral environment for the period that will not be kind to Republicans. The committee is also launching a program to raise money for its eventual nominated.

Democrats need a net gain of three seats next year to take control of the camera (they have 213 seats, with two vacancies in solidly democratic districts). The president’s party also generally loses seats in the middle of the period elections, throwing an average of 20 seats in the house in the second terms of the presidents, according to data from the American presidency project of the University of California in Barbara.

But only three Republican headlines, Don Bacon de Nebraska, Mike Lawler of New York and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, represent the districts, former vice president Kamala Harris held last year’s presidential elections.

The three are on the DCCC objectives list, together with the family headlines of Battleground to whom Cook’s political report with Amy Walter qualifies as in the “Showup” competitions, including Bacon, Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, Miller-Meeks, Pennsylvania Scott Perry and Ryan McKenzie, Gabe Evans Evans Evans, G Michigan, from Pennsylvania, by David Schweikert and Arizona and Juaneikert de Arizona and Juanekert.

“Republicans from the House of Representatives are scaring, and they should be,” said DCCC President Suzan Delbene, D-Wash. He said in a statement. “They are bewitching the economy, destroying Medicaid, abandoning our veterans and making everything more expensive. In short, they have lost their voters’ confidence, and the majority will cost them.”

The objective list also extends in districts that Trump won by larger margins, including at least 10 that he carried with two digits, according to the analysis of the NBC News decision table.

Some of these districts have recent stories of democratic representation despite their red dye at the presidential level, including the general seat of Alaska, which Republican representative Nick Begich flew last year, and the second district of Iowa, which the representative of the Republican Party Ashley Hinson has represented since 2021.

Other inclination seats of Republicans may not seem promising on paper, at least according to the results of the recent elections, but The headlines have faced negative headlines.

They include the representative of the Republican Party Cory Mills in the 7th district of Florida, a seat that Trump took almost 13 points. Mills is being investigated by the accusations of an assault (he has denied any irregularity). Democrats are also pointing to Republican representative Andy Ogles in Tennessee’s 5th District, which Trump took for almost 18 points. Ogles, a member of the Caucus of Freedom from the right, faced a well -financed primary challenger last year amid accusations that his curriculum embellished, but won with Trump’s support.

And the DCCC list also includes some redder seats in the hands of Republicans who look at a higher position, with the possibility that open seat races are potentially more competitive. They include the tenth district of Michigan, where republican representative John James announced on Monday that he postulates for governor, and the sixth district of Kentucky, with Republican representative Andy Barbar looking at a career for the Senate.

While the Democrats are considering the perspective of the profits next year, they are also defending a lot of seats that Trump took in November, and the DCCC Recently he appointed 26 members of the Committee’s First Line program for the headlines facing difficult careers.

The arm of the Republican Party campaign of the House of Representatives announced last month that it was aiming at 26 seats controlled by the Democrats, most of them first -line members, while the Republican party seeks to hold on to its close majority.

“The Republicans of the House of Representatives are majority and on offense,” said the president of the National Republican Committee of the Congress Richard Hudson, RN.C., in a statement at that time. “Meanwhile, the Democrats of the House of Vulnerable Representatives have been working hard to demonstrate that they are painfully out of contact with the working Americans. Republicans are fighting these Chamber Democrats in their districts, and we will attribute them next autumn.”

The complete list of DCCC objectives is shown below: