GOP Committee Targets State Legislatures for Midterm Wins

The Republican State Leadership Committee has released a target list of state legislative chambers where Republicans hope to maintain control in some locations while flipping Democrat-held statehouses in others.



The list, shared with Politico, gives its first focus on defending GOP majorities in battleground states, including in Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, where Republicans hold the lead by a combined margin of 24 seats.



“Voters are looking for a counterbalance,” Dee Duncan, the president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, said in an interview. “I think that’s what Republicans on the ballot are going to be this fall. I think there’s going to be places that we’re able to play in that we haven’t in the past, and I think we’ll be able to defend our places that we won.”


The party, meanwhile, is also hoping to build on its wins in 2021 in Virginia and on how it narrowed the Democrats’ majority in New Jersey, and are hoping to push for wins in states like Minnesota and Colorado while whittling down Democrat majorities on blue states with …

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