#nrcc

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Republican group falsely calls a Latino congressman an 'illegal immigrant'

Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., responded by saying that the Republican Party has been “invaded by xenophobes."

Megan Lebowitz and Syedah Asghar at NBC News:

WASHINGTON — The National Republican Congressional Committee is facing backlash after falsely referring to Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., as an "illegal immigrant." Espaillat, a Dominican American, has been open about his family having overstayed their visas in the U.S. when he was a child, before they obtained green cards and he later became a citizen. The New York lawmaker delivered Democrats' Spanish-language response to President Donald Trump's joint address on Tuesday night. "Democrats literally chose an illegal immigrant to give their response to President Trump’s address," the NRCC wrote in a post to X on Wednesday with a clip of Espaillat's remarks. "Predictably, this radical called Trump’s presidency a 'reign of terror.' Democrats couldn’t be more disconnected from the American people." Espaillat responded to the NRCC's post, telling reporters on Thursday that the Republican Party was “invaded by xenophobes that think that anybody that doesn’t look like them is an illegal.”  "This is tragic and unfortunate, and because of that, I think I got a lot of support from all over the country calling them out for being a bunch of xenophobes,” he added later.

[...] A spokesman for the NRCC defended its post, saying, “Democrats caring more about policing words and fighting facts instead of policing our border and fighting crime shows just how out of touch they are.” Democrats criticized the NRCC's post, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, of New York, saying in a post to X that "these people are disgusting."

Shame on you, NRCC, for pushing the racist insinuation that Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) is an “illegal immigrant.”

[bighermie]

House Dem Campaign Arm Outraises House GOP by $12M in First Quarter

The House Democrats' campaign arm outraised its Republican counterpart by nearly $12 million in the first three months of the year.

what.............da........... fuck................

[iablmeanie]

Monty Python’s Eric Idle Endorses Cindy Axne, Threatens To Sue Republicans Over Lumberjack Ad

Iowa — Eric Idle says he and Monty Python are taking the NRCC to court over a new attack ad in Iowa, and he’s urging Iowans to support Axne in response. The National Republican Congress…

I love Eric, he can come to Iowa any time.

[whatthedevilisgoingonheeeere]

wtf kind of ad is this?

“is the liberal left out of control” featuring only women of color? the liberal left is diverse so that makes them out of control? so tired of this racist bullshit. fyi this was a sponsered ad by the nrcc (National Republican Congressional Committee)

[vampyr-money]

Hello @staff stop advertising racist and misogynistic ads to me thanks.

[thefaultinourstans]

Lmao at the idea that the NRCC had any sort of market on this site

[ml-pnp]

Liberal Organizer Tells Activists Not to Mention They’re From NYC While Campaigning in Upstate NY

Liberal activists from New York City were bused up to New York's 19th Congressional District on Saturday to volunteer for Democratic nominee Antonio Delgado's campaign, but before they reached their destination, a female organizer told the volunteers not to say where they are from because the campaign is concerned about the optics of receiving outside support.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

House Republicans are heading for the exits

The writing is on the wall ahead of the midterms.

Tom Schaller at Public Notice (03.20.2026):

Earlier this month, four more Republicans announced their pending retirements from the House of Representatives: Darrell Issa (CA-48), Tony Gonzales (TX-23), Burgess Owens (UT-4), and Ryan Zinke (MT-1). Their decisions to retire raised to 34 the number of House Republicans not seeking reelection this November. Entering Donald Trump’s second presidential midterm, those 34 vacancies are tied for the most GOP House retirements in a midterm cycle during the past 100 years. What year shares the record? Answer: 2018, Trump’s first midterm cycle. That November, Trump lost his House majority when the Democrats flipped a net of 40 seats. And 2026 is not over yet: More House Republicans could still announce they are packing it in. Most of these Republicans are not retiring from politics entirely. Twenty-one are giving up their seats to seek other offices; of these, 20 are running for either US Senate or governor. The twenty-first is GOP firebrand Chip Roy, who announced his retirement to run for Texas attorney general. (Roy is in a runoff with state Sen. Mayes Middleton to be party’s nominee.)

To be clear, 21 Democrats have also announced their retirements, so the pattern is hardly one-sided. And the departure of the embattled Gonzales, whose sordid affair with a female staffer led to her suicide, is probably more of a blessing that a liability for House Speaker Mike Johnson and his Republican colleagues, some of whom have called upon Gonzales to resign immediately.

But retirements are significant because they can serve as both a symptom and a cause of a bad cycle for the party suffering most of them. Why? Because even though most House districts are strategically gerrymandered to provide safe seats for one party or another, rookie candidates are qualitatively different from veteran incumbents. These candidates often must spend a lot of resources winning a contentious primary, and tend to have fewer connections and lower name-recognition with district constituents.

Incumbents aren’t just a surer bet to hold a seat for their party, but a less expensive one, too. Open seats force the so-called “Hill committees” — the Republican National Campaign Committee (RNCC) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) — to spend resources they would prefer to dedicate to other contests.

Still, what matters more than who is retiring and whom the two parties will nominate to fill vacant seats is how competitive those open districts might be in the general election. With Johnson’s razor-thin House majority, any and every advantage for either the Republican RNCC or the DCCC is crucial. (California Rep. Kevin Kiley’s recent declaration that he has left the GOP and filed for reelection as an independent gives Johnson yet another headache.)

The wave of House Republicans retiring, either to other offices or outright retirement, is a sign that they’ll highly likely lose the House.