House Republicans are planning to target House seats in blue states in order to maintain their majority in 2024.
The Congressional Leadership Fund laid out its strategy in a memo addressed to “interested parties” obtained by the Washington Examiner. The group is hinging everything on Republicans’ ability to flip blue states, declaring that “the House will be won or lost in blue states.”
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The McCarthy-aligned leadership PAC’s pitch rests on a few main points: the alleged weakness of President Joe Biden, an influx of “too-liberal-to-win” candidates, and a lack of “star recruits.”
“While there are huge unknowns and endless economic, cultural, political, and international variables, we know Biden is historically weak and the country is not interested in Democrat single-party rule,” the memo read.
CLF highlighted the political field in the 2018 and 2022 cycles, saying the ascendant party in those years “got star recruits into races immediately.”
“Yet seven months into the ‘24 cycle, few star candidates are emerging for Democrats. They are stuck in a malaise of weak candidates, too-liberal-to-win challengers, and outright holes in most of their top seats,” the memo read.
To manage the offensive into blue states, the organization is launching the Blue State Project, arguing that it has “an opportunity to continue to capture the frustration of middle-of-the-road voters in liberal states crying out for common sense.”
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The plan is to win over these centrist voters by pushing “kitchen table issues,” such as the economy, immigration, and violent crime.
The CLF is also looking to get a large influx of early funding dedicated to a digital fundraising program, the Blue State Project, and an “unusually significant TV reserve.”
