DCCC adds to 'red-to-blue' candidate list
The campaign arm of House Democrats has added nine more candidates to its "red-to-blue" program, which aims to support top candidates running in districts currently held by Republicans.
The DCCC's updated list includes Randy Bryce, the ironworker who's hoping to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan, as well as a handful of candidates who led the pack in recent primaries in Illinois and Texas.
But there's one notable omission in the latter category. While the DCCC is boosting two candidates who still face runoffs against fellow Democrats in Texas — Gina Ortiz-Jones and Colin Allred — they did not weigh in on the contentious primary runoff brewing between Laura Moser and Lizzie Pannill Fletcher in the highly competitive TX-7 race to take on Republican John Culberson.
The DCCC had actively tried and failed to keep Moser, who was quoted in a 2014 magazine piece disparaging a Texas city, from making the runoff.
Here's the full list of the new red-to-blue program candidates.
- TJ Cox (CA-21)
- Nancy Soderberg (FL-06)
- Betsy Londrigan (IL-13)
- Lauren Underwood (IL-14)
- Gretchen Driskell (MI-07)
- Aftab Pureval (OH-01)
- Gina Ortiz-Jones (TX-23)
- Colin Allred (TX-32)
- Randy Bryce (WI-01)
