'Abortion and immigration' could make or break GOP in 'volatile' 2024 House races

13 July 2023

During the 2022 midterms races, MAGA pundits at Fox News and other right-wing media outlets enthusiastically predicted that Republicans would enjoy a massive blowout like the red waves of 1994 and 2010. But their dreams did not materialize.

Republicans flipped the U.S. House of Representatives, but only with a narrow single-digit majority. And Democrats slightly increased their small effective majority in the U.S. Senate.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has high hopes of Democrats winning back the House in 2024. In a report published on July 13, the Associated Press' Jonathan J. Cooper emphasizes that Republican House members in swing districts are nervous about what a "volatile" 2024 election will bring.

"After an anemic showing in the midterms," Cooper reports, "Republicans have virtually no cushion in their quest to retain control of the House, which was made all the more complicated by a surprise U.S. Supreme Court decision last month that will likely bring two new safely Democratic districts. Democrats need to pick up just five seats to control the House."

Two factors that could fire up Democratic turnout in House races, Cooper notes, are abortion and former President Donald Trump's frontrunner status in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.

Courtney Rice, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), told AP, "Between overturning state-level protections for reproductive freedoms to prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthiest few and big corporations, vulnerable Republicans are signing their own pink slips ahead of next November's election."

Former GOP strategist Dan Schnur, who teaches politics in California universities, is certain that abortion will be a prominent issue in 2024.

Schnur told AP, "There are two public policy issues that look as though they could dominate next year's election, abortion and immigration. Both of the parties are not only vulnerable on one of those issues but don’t appear to have any clue as to how to deal with them."

Read the Associated Press' full report at this link.

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