McCarthy launches Protect the House 2024 in a bid to expand the GOP majority.

EXCLUSIVE – As he works to secure and increase his slim GOP majority in the House of Representatives next year, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has set up a new joint fundraising committee.

The Protect The House 2024 committee includes the Congressional Republican National Committee, which is the campaign arm of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives, 20 state parties and 30 incumbent Republicans in the House, who face potentially difficult re-elections next year. The word of the committee was given first to Fox News on Friday.

Last November, 30 members won what was among the closest elections to the House of Representatives in the 2022 cycle, and the state parties represent many of the battlefields that will determine the majority in the House in 2024.

McCarthy’s political team says the speaker is already working to ensure the GOP has “the resources to fight the liberal money machine early.” Next week, the speaker will hold his first major fundraiser in the capital of the country. And aides say he is working to fully implement the Pledge to America, which was the political agenda that McCarthy and Republicans in the House of Representatives unveiled during last year’s campaign as they fought to regain a majority.

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“Republicans in the House of Representatives are on the case, the American people sent a message to Washington last November, and we are determined to deliver on that mandate,” McCarthy told Fox News in a statement. “These members represent the races that will decide the battle for the House of Representatives in 2024, and I am determined to defend these seats and expand our majority this cycle.”

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The speaker’s political team notes that McCarthy and associated groups spent a whopping half a billion dollars on behalf of GOP House candidates in the 2022 election cycle, with McCarthy personally raising a record $150 million and traveling to 47 of the 50 states to campaign with Republicans. applicants.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) campaigns with Republican congressional candidate Bo Hines, August 9, 2022, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
(Kevin McCarthy for Congress)

Republicans controlled the majority in the House of Representatives for eight years before the Democrats regained the House in the 2018 midterm elections. In the 2020 election, the GOP fell short of expectations and took a big bite out of most Democrats.

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The Republican Party won a majority in the November elections, but hopes for a red wave have not materialized, and the party is holding on to a fragile majority of 222-212, with a heavily blue seat currently vacant.

The balance of power between Democrats and Republicans in the 118th Congress, from the press gallery of the US House of Representatives.
(U.S. House of Representatives Press Gallery)

Cook’s report, a major non-partisan political handicap, on Thursday gave the Republican Party a slight edge over the Democrats as it released its first rankings for the 2024 landscape, which lists 10 seats held by Democrats as a toss, compared to nine for Democrats. Republicans.

McCarthy’s team said the speaker will also roll out state-specific joint fundraising committees for California and New York to continue competing in those traditionally blue states.

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Here is a list of the 30 House GOP members on the joint fundraising committee, including:

John Duarte (CA-13)
John James (MI-10)
Zach Nunn (IA-03)
David Schweikert (AZ-01)
Mike Lawler (NY-17)
Brandon Williams (NY-22)
Juan Tsiskomani (AZ-06)
Mark Molinaro (NY-19)
Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05)
Tom Keane Jr. (NJ-07)
Don Bacon (NE-02)
Ryan Zinke (MT-01)
David Valadao (CA-22)
Jen Kiggans (VA-02)
Lauren Bobert (CO-03)

Anthony D’Esposito (NY-04)
Derrick Van Orden (WI-03)
Ken Calvert (CA-41)
Michelle Steele (CA-45)
Mike Garcia (CA-27)
Marianne Miller-Mix (IA-01)
Kevin Keely (CA-03)
Scott Perry (PA-10)
Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13)
Ashley Hinson (IA-02)
Monica De La Cruz (TX-15)
Brian Steil (WI-01)
Chuck Edwards (NC-11)
Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01)
Nancy Mays (SC-01)

State Parties on the Joint Fundraising Committee include:

Republican Party of Arizona
Republican State Committee of New Jersey
Republican Party of California
Republican Party of New Mexico
Republican Party of Colorado
Republican Federal New York Campaign Committee
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of North Carolina
Republican Party of Illinois
Ohio Republican Party
Iowa Republican Party
Republican Party of Oregon
Republican Party of Michigan
Republican Federal Committee of Pennsylvania
Republican Party of Minnesota
Republican Party of Texas
Nevada Republican Party Central Committee
Republican Party of Virginia
Republican State Committee of New Hampshire
Washington State Republican Party