{"id":962076,"date":"2021-11-03T11:29:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=962076"},"modified":"2021-11-03T11:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:29:22","slug":"republicans-expand-target-map-after-virginia-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-expand-target-map-after-virginia-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Expand Target Map After Virginia Upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-expand-target-map-after-virginia-upset%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=962076&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.616740088106\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">NRCC adds 13 vulnerable Democrats to target in midterms<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-scaled-e1635949989607.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tVirginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 November 3, 2021 11:22 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"63.959241040056\">\n<p>The National Republican Congressional Committee expanded its target list of vulnerable Democratic House seats in the wake of Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s upset gubernatorial victory over Democrat Terry McAuliffe.<\/p>\n<p>The committee, which works to elect Republicans to the House of Representatives, added 13 members to the list of Democrats it plans to target ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, bringing the total number of targets to 70.<\/p>\n<p>The list expansion came the morning after Youngkin&#8217;s Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/gop-inclusion-trumps-neo-nazi-cosplay-in-race-to-succeed-blackface-democrat\/\">victory<\/a> in the Virginia gubernatorial race, a year after former president Donald Trump lost the state by double digits. Youngkin eroded Democrats&#8217; hold on Virginia&#8217;s suburbs, campaigning on a promise to eliminate critical race theory in schools and empower parents in influencing their children&#8217;s education.<\/p>\n<p>One Democrat the NRCC added to its target list, Jennifer Wexton of Virginia&#8217;s 10th Congressional District, represents Loudoun County. Youngkin outperformed Trump in the Northern Virginia suburb by more than 15 points on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>NRCC chairman Tom Emmer said inflation and Democratic policies have made Democratic lawmakers vulnerable this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a cycle like this, no Democrat is safe,&#8221; Emmer said. &#8220;Voters are rejecting Democrat policies that have caused massive price increases, opened our borders, and spurred a nationwide crime wave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections NRCC adds 13 vulnerable Democrats to target in midterms  Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R.) \/ Getty Images  Philip Caldwell \u2022 November 3, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}