A full swing must take place to shift the current balance of power in the House, which is divided 220-212 in favor of the Democrats.
The major organizations charged with assisting Democrats to win and keep rooms in the House of Representatives claim they are running low on funds and are rushing to decide which Democrats will receive the remaining funds to try and tamp down the anticipated red wave headed for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s gavel.
In the big picture, it’s really just a rounding mistake. It’s for this reason that the nerds on the hill are watching Succession in a non-ironic manner, taking in the internal rivalries, infighting, and conflict both on and off-screen.
There is barely more than one month till the midterm elections.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Executive Director Tim Persico complained to The Washington Post that there “are locations that I don’t know whether we are going to be able to go to” in order to aid Democrats.
The only issue is how much we can handle since we are just being outspent everywhere.
The Washington Post reported on Friday morning that a number of groups were finding themselves short on funds to properly contest all of their potentially winnable House races this year.
This forced them to make “difficult decisions about where to invest in television advertising.”
What House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remarked this week on an episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is in direct contradiction with the DCCC’s and other Democratic funding operators’ interpretation of the situation.
Perhaps Pelosi should have checked with the folks actually running her party and attempting to fund House elections before making what are virtually certain to be broken promises, as she stated that Democrats “will keep the House…by gaining more seats.”
Democrats cannot claim victory in history. A first-term president’s party has only performed well in the midterm elections once since the conclusion of World War II, and that was in 2002, in the wake of 9/11.
