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House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm is expanding its target list just three weeks ahead of Election Day, going on the air for the first time in four more districts with coordinated ad buys with the candidates.<\/p>\n

The move, part of $13 million in coordinated ads launching this week across 39 districts and first shared with Blue Light News, is the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee\u2019s largest reach of investments this cycle as Republicans are working to defend a slew of redder seats in the final stretch.<\/p>\n

The new districts include a toss-up race in Florida\u2019s newly redrawn 22nd District, which Trump would have won by 10 points in 2024, as well as for Democrats\u2019 uphill fight to defend Maine\u2019s 2nd District, which President Donald Trump carried by nine points and where Democratic Rep. Jared Golden is retiring.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re also launching coordinated ads in New Jersey\u2019s swingy 7th District, squarely within New York City\u2019s expensive media market, where Democrats are working to unseat GOP Rep. Tom Kean Jr.<\/p>\n

The coordinated ad buys also include Texas\u2019s redrawn 35th District, where Democrat Johnny Garcia is running neck and neck with Republican Carlos De La Cruz in a suburban San Antonio district Republicans drew to win that Trump would have carried by 10 points.<\/p>\n

The DCCC\u2019s move comes as President Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA Inc.-aligned super PAC and a leading House GOP super PAC are planning to ditch spending<\/u><\/a> in a group of House races in the coming days, as they race to shore up other House seats and salvage the Senate GOP majority.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Republicans pull out of media markets and cede that they are no longer competitive in multiple districts, the DCCC is continuing to go on the offensive,\u201d DCCC National Political Director Brooke Butler said.<\/p>\n

The NRCC has been up with ads in the four districts for weeks.<\/p>\n

“While Democrats are just now scraping together the cash to bail out their radical socialists in critical battleground districts, House Republicans have been dominating the airwaves in those same districts and dozens more for weeks,\u201d NRCC spokesperson Mike Marinella said. \u201cThe DCCC is desperately playing catch-up where Republicans have already lapped them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DCCC didn’t share the exact size of the specific coordinated ad buys, only saying they were six-figure commitments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm is expanding its target list just three weeks ahead of Election Day, going on the air for the first time in four more districts with coordinated ad buys with the candidates. The move, part of $13 million in coordinated ads launching this week across 39 districts and first shared with Blue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}