Posted January 31, 2017 | by Kimberly Scott | in DemDaily, Resource

DemDaily: Top House Targets

January 31, 2017

While the country endures the fallout from Trump's executive orders, the Party must turn to the business of campaigns and targeting 2018 races in an attempt to regain control of the House of Representatives.

Historically the Party outside the White House makes gains in mid-term elections - averaging a pick up of 28 seats over the last three decades. If the pattern holds true, and the new President's approval rating of just 42% (Gallup 1/28) continues to slide, Democrats may have a real shot at taking back the House.

Following the 2016 election, Democrats hold 194 seats to Republicans 241. It will take a net gain of 24 seats for Democrats to take control of the House in 2018.

Ben Ray Lujan

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is the campaign arm of the national Democratic Party, whose principle mission is to elect and re-elect Congressional Members.

The Chair of the DCCC, Congressman Ben Ray Lujan (NM-3) is a part of the Democratic Party leadership and, in turn, the DCCC has its own slate of Member officers who lead the charge in certain areas - including campaign services, candidate recruitment, finance, mobilization and the DCCC "Front Line" program for top tier candidates.

DCCC's Top Republican Congressional District Targets

State	District	Incumbent	State	District	Incumbent
Alabama	02	Martha Roby	Minnesota	03	Erik Paulsen
Arkansas	02	French Hill	North Carolina	08	Richard Hudson
Arizona	02	Martha McSally	North Carolina	09	Robert Pittenger
California	10	Jeff Denham	North Carolina	13	Ted Budd
California	21	David Valadao	Nebraska	02	Don Bacon
California	25	Steve Knight	New Jersey	02	Frank LoBiondo
California	39	Ed Royce	New Jersey	03	Tom MacArthur
California	45	Mimi Walters	New Jersey	07	Leonard Lance
California	48	Dana Rohrabacher	New Jersey	11	Rodney Frelinghuysen
California	49	Darrell Issa	New York	01	Lee Zeldin
Colorado	03	Scott Tipton	New York	11	Dan Donovan
Colorado	06	Mike Coffman	New York	19	John Faso
Florida	18	Brian Mast	New York	22	Claudia Tenney
Florida	25	Mario Diaz-Balart	New York	24	John Katko
Florida	26	Carlos Curbelo	New York	27	Chris Collins
Florida	27	Illeana Ros-Lehtinen	Ohio	01	Steve Chabot
Georgia	06	Tom Price	Ohio	07	Bob Gibbs
Iowa	01	Rod Blum	Pennsylvania	06	Ryan Costello
Iowa	03	David Young	Pennsylvania	07	Pat Meehan
Illinois	06	Peter Roskam	Pennsylvania	08	Brian Fitzpatrick
Illinois	13	Rodney Davis	Pennsylvania	16	LloydSmucker
Illinois	14	Randy Hultgren	Texas	07	John Culberson
Kansas	02	Lynn Jenkins	Texas	23	Will Hurd
Kansas	03	Kevin Yoder	Texas	32	Pete Sessions
Kentucky	06	Andy Barr	Virginia	02	Scott Taylor
Maine	02	Bruce Poliquin	Virginia	10	Barbara Comstock
Michigan	07	Tim Walberg	Washington	03	Jaime Herrera Beutler
Michigan	08	Mike Bishop	Washington	08	David Reichert
Michigan	11	Dave Trott	West Virginia	02	Alex Mooney
Minnesota	02	Jason Lewis