Democrats in ‘strong position’ to retake the House in 2026, their campaign chair says
The Democrat responsible for regaining control of the Chamber said that her party was “a strong position to take over the majority” – and warned the Republicans that they would be confronted with a high return of flame if they tried to burst from their way to power.
The president of the campaign committee of the Democrat Congress, Suzan Delbene, a deputy for the state of Washington, told journalists during a breakfast of Christian science on Wednesday that the party is well placed to fix the three seats which he needed to take power in the mid-term elections of 2026.
Republicans seek to consolidate their majority by restarting the Congress district lines in Texas to create up to five other GOP seats – and also look in other states.
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Republican efforts to redraw the districts could turn against him, and the Democrats are well placed to fix the three seats of the room they need to take power in the mid-term elections of 2026, said representative Suzan Delbene during breakfast with journalists.
The representative Delbene warned that this could turn against him, predicting that in liberal states where democrats have a unified control, they would respond with their own Gerrymanders.
“We are not going to fight with an arm attached behind our back. The Republicans should pay attention to what they ask, because the Republicans will lose seats if it is the path they follow,” she said.
It’s easier to say than to do. Many States of liberal origin where Democrats control the majority have books on books or in their state constitutions which limit or prohibit partisan gerrymandering.
In Texas, she predicted that the Republicans could light up with their Texas card, potentially creating opportunities for democratic microphones by spreading too slim and transforming the republican seats currently safe into new competitive districts. “We have an incredible opportunity when they start to play with the lines,” she said.
The deputy is in her second cycle as president of the DCCC. In 2024, the Democrats won a net of two seats in the room even though they lost the White House, leaving them only three seats within one majority. The mid-term elections tend to reduce the ruling party, and as it pointed out, the Democrats have always outperformed the special elections since Trump returned to the White House at the start of this year.
But the Democrats are also victims of their own success of the last cycle. They already have 13 seats at home that were worn by President Trump Last electoral cycle, while the Republicans only have three districts that the Democrats have lost. This limits the exhibition of the Republicans.
But President Trump’s survey numbers are busy, and the Democrats have led the Republicans in the recent polls whose party voters prefers to win the room.
The representative Delbène clearly indicated that the Democrats planned to present themselves on economic issues. “The costs and the economy are absolutely number one,” she said. And she has repeatedly evoked the increase in the cost of living, Trump’s pricing policy and the so -called “big bill” of the GOP – which she nicknamed the “big and ugly”.
“The number one in all areas is affordability, the cost of living. People are struggling with the cost of housing, food, childcare services, health care, energy costs. [They] He absolutely does not focus on that. »»
When asked if President Trump’s treatment of Jeffrey Epstein’s question will be a key element in their message mid-term, she said that the Democrats would underline it as “another example of a broken promise”, before returning to economic messaging quickly.
“It goes in a series of broken promises,” she said, arguing that the Republicans had promised to reduce costs and defend working families, but rather focused on protecting rich and well connected people in their megabill.
“They break the promises to protect well connected and have not focused on the needs of the American people. This is why it resonates so largely across the country, ”she said.
