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“The Republicans are in the majority and they are on the offensive. We will increase our House majority by building strong campaigns around talented recruits in these districts who can communicate the dangers of the Democrats' extreme agenda,” NRCC Chairman Richard Hudson (RN.C.) said in a statement. "These House Democrats should be shaking in their boots." The list includes 19 Democrats who won despite heavy spending by the NRCC against them last cycle, including Reps. Yadira Caraveo of Colorado, Gabriel Vasquez of New Mexico and Pat Ryan of New York, according to FEC reports. They each won by a few…

while trump approval ratings may be falling and republican voters tell pollsters they are willing to look elsewhere, a series of recent events has kept the party obsessed with him and the scandals that defined his time and office. Washington DC and the largest conservative news outlet have spent days reliving the January 6 riots. And the specter of a Trump impeachment in New York heralds an early primary season devoted to relitigating his record. “There is no question that he is the giant in the middle of the room, and other people will define themselves in comparison to him,”…

“History will hold Donald Trump accountable for January 6th,” Pence told hundreds of reporters in what is usually a humorous affair of etiquette. “Make no mistake about it: what happened that day was a disgrace, and it mocks decency to portray it otherwise. President Trump was wrong. His reckless words put my family and everyone in the Capitol in danger that day.” Pence had used similar words to speak about Trump in his book, writing that his former boss's "reckless words had endangered my family and everyone who served on Capitol Hill." But his advisers saw the Gridiron dinner as…

In the days leading up to January 6, 2021, Trump pressured Pence to annul President Joe Biden's election victory while presiding over the certification ceremony of the results. Pence refused, and when rioters stormed the Capitol, some chanted that they wanted to "hang Mike Pence." The House committee that investigated the attack said in its final report that "the President of the United States had angered a mob that was persecuting his own Vice President." With his comments, Pence cemented his place in a broader debate within the Republican Party about how to view the attack. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy,…