NRCC Weekly Rundown: Deranged Dems still obsessed with impeachment

Here’s this week’s edition of the NRCC Weekly Rundown:

(National) House Democrats have stepped in it, now explicitly fundraising off of impeachment for their most vulnerable members. This comes as recent polling shows more than two-thirds of voters (especially in battleground districts) think the Democrats’ impeachment charade is all about politics and wish lawmakers would be more concerned about addressing the issues of the day. Case in point: so far this Congress, House Dems have issued more subpoenas (56) than bills that have become law (46). This isn’t surprising considering the socialist Democrats have always prioritized their deranged efforts to remove President Trump from office over listening to voters.

(AZ-01) Leaders agree that passing the USMCA would be a huge boost for folks in Arizona’s First Congressional District, but timid Tom O’Halleran has been silent on the trade agreement since August. Maybe that’s because O’Halleran (who put out threedifferentstatements clarifying his pro-impeachment stance) is one of those socialist Democrats who two-thirds of voters think is too obsessed with removing President Trump from office to actually get anything done. Sad!

(CA-21) Corrupt TJ Cox’sproblems just keep adding up! A new report by the Fresno Bee details how the California socialist is struggling to raise money in his own district. Now TJ has to worry about money AND going to jail. Yikes!

(CA-45) Katie Porterannounced her plan to endorseSen. Elizabeth Warren and her insane socialist agenda for president last night. This comes as no surprise considering the extreme duo both want to abolish private health insurance and raise taxes. PS: CA-45 is an R+3 district.

(CA-48) Harley Rouda penned an op-ed for the LA Daily News last weekend in which he obsessed over impeaching the President… again. In fact, it’s allHarley talks about! He droned on about impeachment on Don Lemon last week, and on The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell and Weekends With Alex Witt the week before that. Harley sure is feeding the beast for someone who complains about cable news’ constant impeachment coverage…

(FL-26, 27) Florida Reps. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell and Donna Shalala are demanding Congress fully fund efforts to defend democracy in Venezuela. But just a few months ago, Debbie and Donna voted with their party AGAINST a bipartisan motion to condemn socialism as the cause of the crisis in Venezuela. The motion failed by TWO votes. Looking at you, Donna and Debbie!

(IL-06) Sean Castenthrew a temper tantrum this week over the House’s vote to censure Adam Schiff for his deranged attempt to remove President Trump from office. Schiff was recently called out by The Washington Post for lying about speaking directly to the whistleblower and literally making up quotes from President Trump in his committee hearings. Casten’schildish hissy fit is rich considering two-thirds of voters think he isn’t accomplishing anything because he’s too obsessed with the baseless impeachment of President Trump.

(IL-17) Cheri “Beltway” Bustos thinks “everybody just needs to be patient” while she and her deranged party attempt to remove President Trump from office. Meanwhile, in Illinois, farmers have been struggling for months while Beltway Bustos obsesses over the partisan shenanigans in Washington. Her response? Just be patient!

(MI-06) This weeksocialistJon Hoadley strangely boasted about receiving an endorsement from Brand New Congress, an organization that is currently under federal investigation. Along with its sister organization, Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress is accused of transferring over $1 million in political donations to private companies controlled by AOC’s former Chief of Staff to skirt campaign finance laws. Yikes! Jon should be a little more careful about the company he keeps…

(NE-02) Comrade Kara Eastman also touted the endorsement she received from Brand New Congress, an organization linked to socialist darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that is currently under investigation for an “elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures.” Perhaps Comrade Kara should be a bit pickier about her socialist friends. Then again, considering her latest campaign finance report revealed she has just $67,023 cash on hand, she needs all the help she can get!

(NH-01) Chris Pappas continues to show New Hampshire voters what a hypocrite he is, now refusing to denounce the latest round of dark money spending on his behalf. Pappas has repeatedly touted his efforts to get rid of dark money groups, but has stayed silent while they spend millions to benefit his reelection efforts. Apparently, Pappas doesn’t have a problem with dark money as long as it’s promoting him and his socialist agenda!

(NY-19) Antonio Delgado has called passing the USMCA “an urgent matter,” but instead of delivering trade relief to NY-19 farmers and manufacturers, Delgado and his socialist colleagues have been focusing on removing President Trump from office. And voters agree, with recent polling showing that more than two-thirds of voters think the Democrats’ obsession with impeachment is all about politics and wish they’d be more concerned about addressing the issues voters actually care about.

(NY-21) Tedra Cobb’s fledgling campaign is already in free fall! Fresh off a secret fundraising trip to Washington, DC, the suddenly camera-shy Cobb is getting primaried by embattled Clinton County Legislator Simon Conroy. It’s a troubling sign for Cobb that despite Conroy’s recent legal troubles, he still thinks he’d be a better candidate than her. Cobb will fail in 2020 just as she did in 2018. Upstate voters have no time for her socialist agenda!

(PA-17) President Trump was in Pittsburgh this week discussing American energy independence and went out of his way to blast Conor Lamb, telling the crowd, “He never votes with me…Conor Lamb wants to take away your guns…he never votes with us.”Thepresident’s comments are a good reminder that despite representing a district President Trump carried in 2016, Conor Lamb has gone all in on the Democrats’ socialist agenda! Click HERE to watch President Trump’s comments.

(TX-28) Back in September, NRCC Chairman Tom EmmeridentifiedHenry Cuellar as the most vulnerable Democrat in Texas, and boy was he right! Just days after Emily’s List endorsedCuellar’s socialist opponent, de facto Speaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezthrew her weight behind Jessica Cisneros. AOC joins other notable liberals who’ve endorsed Cisneros, which puts her squarely at odds with Nancy Pelosi and DCCC Chair Cheri Bustos, who have pledged to support Cuellar. Pull up a chair and grab some popcorn because this socialist showdown is just getting started!

(WI-03) Vice President Mike Pence put Ron Kindon blast this week after he doubled down on his deranged obsession with impeachment, calling him out for stalling the USMCA trade deal while Wisconsin farmers suffer. Unfortunately for WI-03, Kind’s top priority is removing President Trump from office – not helping his constituents. That’s why he’s going to lose next November!


News & Notes


Mucarsel-Powell and Shalala called “frauds” over Venezuela

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The NRCC continues to highlight Mucarsel-Powell’s every move, pushing one of The Floridian’s stories where Mucarsel-Powell and other Florida House Democrats, Reps. Stephanie Murphy, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Donna Shalala, and Darren Soto, “banded together” to call on the Republican-controlled Senate and the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives to “fully fund” the effort that defends democracy in embattled Venezuela.

NRCC Spokeswoman Camille Gallo quipped at the Democratic ask, stating “This is rich. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell and Donna Shalala are demanding Congress fully fund efforts to defend democracy in Venezuela, but just a few months ago, Debbie and Donna voted with their party against a bipartisan motion to condemn socialism as the cause of the crisis in Venezuela.”

Gallo was referring to the July 25, 2019, Venezuelan TPS measure that failed by two votes, saying that “Debbie and Donna voted with their party against a bipartisan motion to condemn socialism as the cause of the crisis in Venezuela.” READ.


House Democrats’ Campaign Arm Directly Ties Its Moderate Members to Impeachment

A new mailer sent by the Democratic Party’s House campaign arm directly ties some of the party’s most vulnerable members to the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, creating the potential for political potholes for those members down the road.

The mailer, which was obtained by The Daily Beast, pleads with donors to contribute to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to help support so called “Frontliner” members who hail from key swing districts. 

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But in trying to gin up donations off of the impeachment proceedings, the campaign committee has taken a notable gamble. The frontline members in the party are precisely the ones most publicly skittish about pursuing Trump’s impeachment—arguing, often, that it is a solemn responsibility or even a grave step that is fraught with political risk. That message could be complicated by the fact that the House Democratic campaign arm is now raising money explicitly for them and explicitly off of impeachment. READ.


AOC Defies Pelosi, DCCC with Texas Endorsement

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) has endorsed another liberal challenger looking to unseat an incumbent House Democrat backed by party leadership.

Ocasio-Cortez endorsed progressive Jessica Cisneros in her primary challenge against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D., Tex.), citing Cisneros’s status as a “strong new ally in the fight for Medicare for All.” Cisneros is supported by Justice Democrats, the same progressive group that backed Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) in 2018.

Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement marks another act of defiance toward Democratic leadership. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D., Ill.) have endorsed Cuellar. READ.


Joe Biden said in 1998 that Clinton impeachment could be seen as ‘partisan lynching’

(CNN) – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday denounced President Donald Trump’s comparison of the ongoing impeachment inquiry to a “lynching,” but in a 1998 interview, the then-senator from Delaware also invoked the term in reference to impeachment.

“Impeachment is not ‘lynching,’ it is part of our Constitution,” the former vice president said in a tweet on Tuesday. “Our country has a dark, shameful history with lynching, and to even think about making this comparison is abhorrent. It’s despicable.”

In an appearance on CNN in October 1998, however, Biden said the impending impeachment proceedings against then-President Bill Clinton could be viewed as a “partisan lynching.” READ.