The DCCC is launching its 2020 campaign to preserve and even bolster the party’s House majority.
WASHINGTON — Fresh off a 40-seat pickup in 2018, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching its 2020 campaign on Thursday hoping to preserve and even bolster the party’s House majority. The DCCC, House Democrats’ official campaign arm, is making an initial multi-million-dollar investment, deploying 60 grassroots organizers — the largest number this early in the campaign season.
The organizers are being trained in similar tactics to “double down on that effort and exploit opportunities earlier and more aggressively,” said Cole Leiter, a DCCC spokesman.To win back the majority, Republicans would need to pick up 18 seats. There are 26 Democrats who won in the 2018 midterms by five points or fewer.
The DCCC in 2018 concentrated its efforts on 25 Republican incumbents who represented districts Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Democrats picked up 22 of those seats. Just three Republicans now represent districts Clinton carried: John Katko of New York, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Will Hurd in Texas.
That’s the finding from an online RealClearPolitics poll – conducted by RealClear Opinion Research – which shows that a majority of Democratic primary voters rate themselves in the middle. A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed a similar result, with a combined 54 percent of Democratic primary voters identifying as moderates or conservatives, versus 43 percent who said they are liberal.
That's not all that's been going on in the world of 2020 politics. Read on for more stories from the trail.Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday that he will not run for president, arguing that while he believes he could defeat President Trump, he's"clear-eyed about the difficulty of winning the Democratic nomination in such a crowded field."
Quinnipiac's poll was conducted after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's public congressional testimony last week, where he doubled down on his accusation that Trump directed him to secretly cover up an alleged affair by paying off porn actress Stormy Daniels and not disclosing it as a campaign contribution.
Justin Myers, the group's CEO, told NBC News on Tuesday that the budget will go toward funding a program that includes field organizers, strategists, communications, digital ads, text messaging and more tools across target states. Yesterday, we brought you the rare case of a Democrat deciding not to run for president in 2020—former Attorney General Eric Holder.Merkley had been flirting with a bid for months, but he announced Tuesday that he'll instead run for reelection to the Senate again because he believes he can be more effective there.
Act Now on Climate is run by the former political director of the Democratic Governors Association, which Inslee chaired last cycle. Advertising Analytics, a group that monitors political and consumer spending, says the ad buy is for $111,000 so far in the Cedar Rapids and Des Moines markets.
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