A super PAC aligned with the House Republican leadership expressed confidence Republicans will expand their majority in 2024, even after chaos in the House under GOP leadership.
In a memo, Dan Conston, the president of the Congressional Leadership Fund, said that he believes House Republicans are in a “strong position to hold and grow their majority” and that in the two weeks Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has had the gavel, he has seen “seen firsthand his eagerness and determination to invest in the fight to expand the House majority.”
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“The House leadership team is focused on an agenda that grows our economy and shrinks Biden’s inflation, imposes some fiscal commonsense on Washington, keeps our communities safe, and stands with Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East,” Conston said in the memo, one year out from the 2024 elections.
The Congressional Leadership Fund has been the main super PAC aligned with House GOP leadership since 2011. But after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted, its future was uncertain. Quickly into his tenure, however, Johnson endorsed the Congressional Leadership Fund and its leadership team, quashing the concerns.
Now, the Congressional Leadership Fund has continued its work and is pushing forward to help Republicans keep and expand their majority.
The Congressional Leadership Fund polled four seats where Republicans are holding seats President Joe Biden won in 2020: Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA), Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA), Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), and Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY).
“Democrats have insisted that recent House events will endanger Republicans next November,” Conston said in the memo. “However, when we posed the question to voters, they agreed by wide margins that their Member is working to end the chaos in Washington.”
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In the poll, which was conducted from Oct 18-25, they found that voters favored Lawler 29 points higher than they viewed the Republicans in Congress net large, voters viewed LaLota 19 points higher than Republicans in Congress, Garcia 16 points higher, and Kiggans 15 points higher.
“We have seen time and again that strong House Republican candidates and Members run well ahead of other Republicans,” the memo reads. “To that end, we conducted surveys in four Biden-won GOP-held districts over the last week. Despite what you hear on cable news, the political environment remains strong, as Republicans lead on the generic ballot in all four Biden-won districts.”