House Dems' campaign chair says her party's 'on offense' in 2026 battle to win back majority from GOP

With the aboriginal moves heating up successful the 2026 conflict for the House majority, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's (DCCC) seat argues President Donald Trump and the Republican majorities successful the House and Senate are "doing unthinkable harm to moving families and to our country."

And with the GOP defending a razor-thin bulk successful the House successful adjacent year's midterm elections, Rep. Suzan DelBene, the DCCC chair, noted, "We lone request 3 much seats."

"We person 35 districts successful play crossed the state wherever we person opportunities," DelBene said successful a Fox News Digital interrogation past week successful the nation's capital, pointing to the Republican-held seats the DCCC is targeting.

"We are connected offense. We are warring for the American radical and for the important issues they attraction about, and Democrats are agreed successful doing that."

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks astatine a quality league with different members of House Republican enactment successful Washington, D.C., May 6, 2025. The GOP is defending its razor-thin House bulk successful the 2026 midterm elections. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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DelBene countered that "the crushed we person opportunities is due to the fact that radical are outraged, due to the fact that they bash privation to spot idiosyncratic travel into bureau who is going to combat for their communities and not conscionable beryllium blindly loyal to a president."

And pointing to the tiny wound House Democrats took retired of the GOP's bulk successful the 2024 elections, she added that "those are the types of candidates that won successful our districts past cycle. It's a crushed we really gained seats successful 2024 and is perfectly the crushed wherefore we're going to instrumentality backmost the bulk successful 2026."

But Hudson noted helium has a almighty state arsenic helium works to support power of the House.

"The president understands that he's got to support the House bulk successful the midterm truthful that helium has a four-year runway alternatively of a two-year runway to get his docket enacted," Hudson said. "He's been highly adjuvant to us, and we admit it."

And the Democrats are facing a polling dilemma due to the fact that the party's ratings person been sinking to historical lows successful a fig of nationalist surveys truthful acold this year.

The Democrats' ratings successful a Fox News canvass stood astatine 41% favorable and 56% unfavorable successful a survey conducted April 18-21.

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That's an all-time debased for the Democrats successful Fox News polling. And for the archetypal clip successful a decade, the party's lasting was little than that of the GOP, which stood astatine 44% favorable and 54% unfavorable.

The figures were reversed past summer, erstwhile Fox News past asked the enactment favorability question successful 1 of its surveys.

But determination is simply a metallic lining for the Democrats.

The Fox News canvass indicated that if the 2026 midterm elections were held today, 49% of voters would backmost a generic Democrat successful their legislature district, with 42% supporting the generic Republican candidate.

The Democrats besides person different occupation — the anticipation of superior challenges against longtime and older House lawmakers successful harmless bluish districts.

Recently elected Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg past period pledged to walk millions of dollars done his extracurricular governmental radical to enactment superior challenges against what helium termed "asleep astatine the wheel" House Democrats who helium argued person not been effectual successful pushing backmost against Trump.

The determination by the 25-year-old Hogg, a subsister of the shooting 7 years agone astatine Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School successful South Florida, to walk wealth against chap Democrats ignited a firestorm wrong the party.

Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg, seen present Aug. 22, 2024, successful Chicago, is pledging to enactment superior challenges against older House Democrats successful bluish districts. (Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

In response, DelBene said, "Democrats crossed the state are agreed successful taking backmost the House."

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Asked by Fox News if the determination by Hogg would unit the DCCC and allied ace PACs to divert wealth and resources from competitory districts successful bid to support incumbents successful harmless bluish districts from superior challenges, DelBene responded, "I deliberation everyone knows however important it is that we instrumentality backmost the House, and folks are focused successful helping marque definite that we bash that successful districts each crossed the country."

But the quality is giving the GOP ammunition.

In effect to the intra-Democratic Party feud, NRCC spokesperson Mike Marinella argued, "No Democrat is safe. A governmental earthquake is underway, and the aged defender is scrambling."