Most Vulnerable Freshman

Who can forget the 2018 Blue Wave? Flipping seat after seat, forty in all? Hot damn, that was fun. Trouble is, the GOP wants every one of ‘em back. These are going to be the toughest seats to hold, the true toss-ups, so if you want to target your donations to the most fiercely-contested battlegrounds, take a moment to meet the incumbents, I think you’ll find they’ve earned your support: 

The Good Guy

Anthony Brindisi

Anthony Brindisi is one of our majority-makers, a co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition serving in a seat that’s leaned Republican more often than not. Centrists may not be sexy, but Anthony’s (insane) opponent loves pointing out that he almost never votes with Donnie Dotard. Brindisi has been precisely the hard-working bipartisan moderate he promised to be, and he took a big risk in supporting impeachment, so let’s get his back, okay?

New York

NY-22

Incumbent

Ratings

Cook: Toss-Up

Inside Elections: Tilt Dem

Roll Call: Tilt Dem

Sabato: Toss-Up

The Bad Gal

Claudia Tenney

Claudia Tenney SUCKS, y’all. A dutiful little Trumper, she gained national fame by insisting mass shooters tend to be Democrats, a claim she pulled directly out of her ass. (Claudia is, naturally, an NRA puppet) She’s one of those loons who blames everything on the DEEP STATE, including, I shit you not, Ben Carson’s $31,000 dining set. While in office, she also claimed the bullshit GOP tax bill “already paid for” itself, in a genuinely Trumpian display of dumbass mendacity. We got this one right last time; please keep this maniac out of Congress.

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The Good Guy

Joe Cunningham

Joe Cunningham became the 1st Democrat to flip a House seat in South Carolina since 1986, but the GOP will spend heavily to win this one back. It won’t be easy, since Cunningham has absolutely delivered the bipartisan solutions he promised, including getting a ban on offshore drilling through the House. Joe’s not afraid to call out bullshit, with an air horn when necessary. In short, he’s a solid Blue Dog Dem, and we’re lucky to have him in this seat.

South Carolina

SC-01

Incumbent

Ratings

Cook: Toss-Up

Inside Elections: Tilt Dem

Roll Call: Tilt Dem

Sabato: Lean Dem

The Bad Gal

Nancy Mace

Nancy Mace is a onetime Tea Party gadfly candidate who skipped to the front of the line when the gadflies took over. Mace worked for Trump in 2016, so she didn’t even have to sell out to join the treasonous modern GOP. She owned and operated this shitty little political gossip site where she published all this petty tripe, so OF COURSE Republicans are running her for the U.S. Congress. All the usual terrible Republican ideas are there, of course, especially on health care. It’s time for an all-Joe ticket in SC-1. 

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The Good Gal

Abby Finkenauer

One of our most impressive freshmen, Abby Finkenauer quickly became the youngest woman ever to sponsor a bill that passed the U.S. House, and has served with quiet excellence ever since. She’s been fighting hard for her constituents during the coronavirus crisis, and Iowa Republicans sure are fucking terrified of her.

Iowa

IA-01

Incumbent

Ratings

Cook: Toss-Up

Inside Elections: Tilt Dem

Roll Call: Tilt Dem

Sabato: Lean Dem

The Bad Gal

Ashley Hinson

Ashely Hinson hilariously referred to herself as “a recovering journalist” at a Trump rally, (you know, those places where they incite violence against journalists) and now hopes to ride a wave of plagiarism and lies to Congress, where she’d dutiful carry out the anti-worker agenda national Republicans recruited her to enact. Unless we get Abby Finkenauer’s back, that is. This one’s gonna be a nail-biter, folks. 

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The Good Gal

Kendra Horn

Even during a Blue Wave, this seat shouldn’t have flipped, and Dems shouldn’t have a prayer of holding it now. The problem for the GOP is that Kendra Horn is freakin’ awesome. See, unlike her wingnut predecessors, she listens to her constituents, she fights for her district’s unique needs, especially during the pandemic. Republicans want to stop Horn before neighboring districts figure out they can have Representatives who serve the people, not just wealthy donors.

Oklahoma

OK-05

Incumbent

Ratings

Cook: Toss-Up

Inside Elections: Toss-Up

Roll Call: Toss-Up

Sabato: Toss-Up

The Bad Gal

Stephanie Bice

Oklahoma State Senator Stephanie Bice is a rising star in the GOP, which is something you only come to be by doing shitty stuff like opposing your own constituents’ right to health care, while simultaneously backing more taxpayer-funded pay for Stephanie Bice. An NRA puppet, a wannabe wall-builder, and an anti-choice fanatic, Bice is perhaps most famous for lying about having Mike Pence’s support during the exceptionally nasty Republican primary for this seat, and lordy, if you’re desperate/clownish/immoral enough to bicker and fib about that sad, hollow puppet’s backing, you’re certainly not fit for leadership.

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The Good Gal

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, the first South American immigrant to serve in Congress, is about two things: hard work and service. She brings valuable experience from the nonprofit sector to the struggle against climate change (crucial for her South Florida district), and a passion born of personal tragedy to the fight for gun control. And lord knows Debbie’s steady leadership on the Congressional Coronavirus Task Force stands in sharp contrast to her opponent’s deadly incompetence.

Florida

FL-26

Incumbent

Ratings

Cook: Toss-Up

Inside Elections: Toss-Up

Roll Call: Toss-Up

Sabato: Toss-Up

The Bad Guy

Carlos Giménez

Carlos Giménez, as Mayor of Miami-Dade County, followed the disastrous Trump/DeSantis/Grim Reaper coronavirus playbook, perhaps assuming voters would elevate him to higher office if only to get him to stop killing them. Also, since Giménez is so corrupt he has a legit monorail scandal on his record, it shouldn’t surprise you to learn he’s waving fistfuls of CARES Act funding around under a GET YER BRIBES HERE sign. Just another servile Trump sellout lookin’ to crawl into the swamp.

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The Good Guy

Max Rose

Max Rose earned the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart serving his country in Iraq and Afghanistan before serving New York at Brightpoint Health and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. In his freshman term, not only has he delivered concrete results on opioids and the East Shore seawall, he even deployed with the National Guard to aid in the coronavirus fight. This’ll be one of the closest races in the House, but Max is worth keepin’ around.

New York

NY-11

Incumbent

Ratings

Cook: Toss-Up

Inside Elections: Toss-Up

Roll Call: Toss-Up

Sabato: Toss-Up

The Bad Gal

Nicole Malliotakis

If you like flip-flopping hacks with absolutely no core beliefs who’ll say anything to get elected, you’re going to LOVE Nicole Malliotakis. Yes, this is the same Malliotakis that ran for Mayor of NYC, though her current platform is unrecognizable, on issues ranging from Trump to voting by mail. Oh, and allies of her campaign doctored a photograph to make it look like she was donating supplies to coronavirus first responders, when she actually…didn’t do that. And this one of the GOP’s better recruits, YIKES.

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