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Interesting, Another dem candidate de funded due to the no viable option to win no matter how much they spend.
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House Majority PAC, the super PAC aligned with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), announced on Friday its plans to pull millions of dollars out of California’s 27th district, an area represented by Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) that President Joe Biden carried by 12 points in 2020.
House Majority PAC is seemingly giving up on Garcia’s district with less than three weeks until midterms by canceling $2.2 million in television reservations.
Garcia is running against Democrat Christy Smith, whom he defeated once in the 2019 special election to fill disgraced former Rep. Katie Hill’s (D-CA) seat and again in the 2020 election.
Garcia ended the third campaign fundraising quarter with more than double the $3 million Smith raised, according to recent Federal Election Commission filings.
House Majority PAC’s decision to abandon Garcia’s district comes after the PAC announced in August that it would spend $20 million on midterms in a last-ditch effort to salvage House Democrats’ majority.
Just last month, Pelosi predicted that Democrats would keep the majority, despite Republicans needing just five seats to flip the House.
“Yes, indeed,” Pelosi told Punchbowl News when asked if Democrats will gain seats in November. “So we’re ready. Mobilizing on the ground … messaging, raising the money. But the biggest factor of all is not only do we believe, the candidates believe. So for a year, 10 months, eight months, terrific people had put themselves out there believing they could win in those districts.”
House Majority PAC’s move is indicative of a larger pattern of Republicans competing in districts that Biden carried by significant margins.
As the New York Times reported:
“If Democrats are playing defense in Rhode Island, they are losing across the country,” Republican National Committeeman Steven Frias told the New York Times.
Republicans are also competing in New York’s gubernatorial election, which has not seen a competitive race in two decades.
With Democrats playing defense, it seems that their strategy of funneling money into GOP primaries is backfiring. Democrats spent roughly $53 million across multiple states’ Republican primaries to promote candidates they viewed as easier to defeat.
For example, Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Senate Majority PAC threw $3.2 million in New Hampshire’s Republican U.S. Senate primary on ads that boosted Gen. Don Bolduc’s campaign.
However, now that Bolduc is the Republican Senate nominee, recent polls have shown he is in a dead heat with Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan, trailing the incumbent by less than one percentage point.
One Democrat pollster told the Times that “reality is setting in” for the Democrats.
“We thought for a little bit that we could defy gravity, but the reality is setting in,” Data for Progress executive director Sean McElwee said.
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jdixonhamilton@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter.
Pelosi-Aligned PAC Pulls Millions Out of Deep Blue California District
House Majority PAC announced plans to pull millions of dollars out of CA's 27th district, an area that Biden carried by 12 points in 2020.
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Pelosi-Aligned PAC Pulls Millions Out of Deep Blue California District
House Majority PAC, the super PAC aligned with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), announced on Friday its plans to pull millions of dollars out of California’s 27th district, an area represented by Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) that President Joe Biden carried by 12 points in 2020.
House Majority PAC is seemingly giving up on Garcia’s district with less than three weeks until midterms by canceling $2.2 million in television reservations.
Garcia is running against Democrat Christy Smith, whom he defeated once in the 2019 special election to fill disgraced former Rep. Katie Hill’s (D-CA) seat and again in the 2020 election.
Garcia ended the third campaign fundraising quarter with more than double the $3 million Smith raised, according to recent Federal Election Commission filings.
House Majority PAC’s decision to abandon Garcia’s district comes after the PAC announced in August that it would spend $20 million on midterms in a last-ditch effort to salvage House Democrats’ majority.
Just last month, Pelosi predicted that Democrats would keep the majority, despite Republicans needing just five seats to flip the House.
“Yes, indeed,” Pelosi told Punchbowl News when asked if Democrats will gain seats in November. “So we’re ready. Mobilizing on the ground … messaging, raising the money. But the biggest factor of all is not only do we believe, the candidates believe. So for a year, 10 months, eight months, terrific people had put themselves out there believing they could win in those districts.”
House Majority PAC’s move is indicative of a larger pattern of Republicans competing in districts that Biden carried by significant margins.
As the New York Times reported:
For example, Republicans are putting up a fight in Rhode Island’s second congressional district, a state that has not sent a Republican to Congress in nearly 30 years.
“If Democrats are playing defense in Rhode Island, they are losing across the country,” Republican National Committeeman Steven Frias told the New York Times.
Republicans are also competing in New York’s gubernatorial election, which has not seen a competitive race in two decades.
With Democrats playing defense, it seems that their strategy of funneling money into GOP primaries is backfiring. Democrats spent roughly $53 million across multiple states’ Republican primaries to promote candidates they viewed as easier to defeat.
For example, Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Senate Majority PAC threw $3.2 million in New Hampshire’s Republican U.S. Senate primary on ads that boosted Gen. Don Bolduc’s campaign.
However, now that Bolduc is the Republican Senate nominee, recent polls have shown he is in a dead heat with Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan, trailing the incumbent by less than one percentage point.
One Democrat pollster told the Times that “reality is setting in” for the Democrats.
“We thought for a little bit that we could defy gravity, but the reality is setting in,” Data for Progress executive director Sean McElwee said.
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jdixonhamilton@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter.