Republicans have opportunities to pick up competitive House seats Democrats looking to advance their political careers to the Senate are leaving vacant.
Reps. Katie Porter and Elissa Slotkin announced their candidacies for U.S. Senate in their respective states last month as mainstay Senate Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Debbie Stabenow head for retirement.
But the career-oriented moves are leaving Democrats vulnerable in California’s Forty-Seventh and Michigan’s Seventh Congressional Districts. Porter and Slotkin are coming off the heels of tough reelection campaigns, where they heavily outspent their Republican counterparts to eke out close victories, as Politico’s Brittany GibsonPorter, for instance, beat out Republican candidate Scott Baugh in November by a margin of 51.7 percent to 48.3 percent, as the. She relied on a $26 million fundraising machine last year, shelling out $18.5 million in advertising alone, according to Gibson.
In other words, Porter’s more than $23 million advantage translated to a victory of 9,113 votes. With Porter’s strong fundraising apparatus out of play, Republicans could potentially flip the district. “People just have a lot of assumptions [that] because I was a good fundraiser that it must have been like a nothing burger,” Porter toldFred Whitaker serves as the Republican party Chairman in Orange County, California, which is within the 47th District. In January, he said that the seat is the party chapter’s “top target,” as Breitbart News
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