TX-22, TX-24: As House Democrats expand the map, Texas is 'ground zero'
Buoyed by record-breaking fundraising and strong polling in battleground districts, Texas is now “ground zero” for House Democrats as they look to expand their House majority in November, according to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Cheri Bustos.
Two open seats held by retiring Lone Star Republicans are on the frontlines for Democrats’ national offense. According to national strategists, Texas’s 22nd and 24th Districts are a microcosm of the trends that could eventually turn the state blue, and those changes are the reason Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz have sounded the alarm that Democrats have a real chance of flipping the state this year.
In a memo last week, the DCCC detailed its early investments in Texas as key to efforts to further expand the map. The DCCC also launched a series of digital ads last week on YouTube in Texas’s 10th and 24th Districts, along with its first ads in Chinese and Hindi in the 22nd District. The committee also reserved $2.2 million in ad time for Dallas broadcast in the fall.
“Our frontline members are our priorities,” DCCC Executive Director Lucinda Guinn told National Journal last week, referring to its list of vulnerable incumbents. “But I think like all our early investing, it has paid dividends,
“I think we feel like we can with confidence look to aggressively play offensively in this environment,” Guinn added.
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