众议院共和党的竞选机构全国共和党国会委员会(National Republican Congressional Committee)周三上午宣布，它将47个地区作为2022年中期选举的选战机会。
该组织由明尼苏达州众议员汤姆·埃默(Tom Emmer)领导，目标是与2020年相同的许多地区，以及远郊的纽约市第18国会区，那里是新的民主党国会竞选委员会主席肖恩·帕特里克·马洛尼(Sean Patrick Maloney)的家乡，他在2020年以约12个百分点的优势赢得了连任。
中期选举被广泛认为是该党不在白宫的主要机会，共和党人正把目光投向美国一些最具竞争力的地区。根据《五·三十八》的数据，鉴于2020年的人口普查和选区划分，共和党重新控制众议院的前景似乎更加光明，因为共和党控制了大约三分之二的州选区划分过程。
2018年，民主党成功地40个座位的增益作为反对特朗普政府的公投的一部分。
NRCC表示，在共和党大规模削减民主党多数席位，将15个席位从蓝色变为红色，并将民主党的控制权减少到只有少数选票之后，它将坚持2020年的策略。
“我们刚刚进入拜登政府几周，美国人已经看到众议院民主党人支持的裁员计划，”NRCC主席汤姆·埃默在伴随目标地区的新闻稿中说。
“众议院共和党人在距离多数席位仅差五个席位的情况下开始了这一周期，并准备在我们2020年成功的基础上，在众议院获得共和党的持久多数席位。埃米尔补充说:“我们将继续专注于招聘有才华和多样化的候选人，积极突出民主党的社会主义议程，并筹集足够的资源来赢得选举。”
NRCC的目标是佐治亚州亚特兰大郊区的第七国会选区，该选区现在由民主党人卡罗琳·波尔多代表。该席位是民主党在2020年唯一有竞争力的席位，尽管在法院下令重新划分选区后，北卡罗来纳州的两个地区被重划为民主党占优势。
这一消息传出之际，民主党人正发起攻势，试图再次扩大多数派，在一些关键的战场地区投放了总计50万美元的广告，试图将加州共和党众议员凯文·麦卡锡和去年乔·拜登总统赢得的地区七名脆弱的众议院共和党人与佐治亚州众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林(Marjorie Taylor Greene)的极端言论和不可信的卡农阴谋论联系起来。
《华盛顿邮报》事实检查器写道，试图将成员与阴谋论联系起来是“误导”所有八名成员都投票反对特朗普的第二次弹劾，弹劾的重点是前总统自己的言论，然后他的一群支持者游行到国会大厦，试图阻挠拜登的胜利认证。尽管一些人批评特朗普的行为，但在特朗普和极右翼一再支持的毫无根据的欺诈指控之后，少数人投票反对认证亚利桑那州和宾夕法尼亚州这两个战场中至少一个战场的选票。
Here are the 47 districts the GOP is targeting as pickup opportunities in the 2022 midterms
The National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm for House Republicans, announced Wednesday morning the 47 districts it is targeting as pickup opportunities in the 2022 midterms.
The group, led by Chairman Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, is targeting many of the same districts it did in 2020, as well as the exurban New York City 18th Congressional District, home to new Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who won reelection by about 12 points in 2020.
Midterms are widely considered a prime opportunity for the party not in the White House, and Republicans are setting their sights on some of the nation’s most competitive districts. In light of the 2020 Census and redistricting, Republican prospects for regaining control of the House appear even brighter, as the GOP controls about two-thirds of the states’ redistricting processes, according to FiveThirtyEight.
In 2018, Democrats managed a 40-seat gain as a part of the referendum vote against the Trump administration.
The NRCC indicated it was going to stick to its 2020 playbook after the GOP made massive cuts into the Democratic majority, flipping 15 seats from blue to red and reducing the Democratic control to just a handful of votes.
“We are just a few weeks into the Biden Administration and Americans are already seeing the job-killing initiatives House Democrats support,” said NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer in a press release accompanying the target districts.
“House Republicans start the cycle just five seats short of a majority and are prepared to build on our 2020 successes to deliver a lasting Republican majority in the House. We will stay laser-focused on recruiting talented and diverse candidates, aggressively highlighting Democrats’ socialist agenda and raising enough resources to win,” Emmer added.
The NRCC is targeting Georgia’s 7th Congressional District in the Atlanta suburbs, which is now represented by Democrat Carolyn Bordeaux. The seat was the only competitive pickup Democrats had in 2020, notwithstanding two North Carolina districts that were redrawn heavily in Democratic favor following court-ordered redistricting.
The news comes as Democrats launch their offensive attempt at widening the majority again, placing a total of a half-million-dollar ad buys across some crucial battleground districts, seeking to tether Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and seven vulnerable House Republicans in districts President Joe Biden won last year, to Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's extremist rhetoric and discredited QAnon conspiracy theories.
The Washington Post's fact checker wrote that the effort to tie the members to the conspiracy theories is "misleading." All eight of those members voted against Trump's second impeachment, which centered on the former president's own rhetoric before a mob of his supporters marched to the Capitol in an effort to thwart the certification of Biden's victory. And while some criticized Trump's conduct, a smaller number of them voted against certifying the electoral votes from at least one of two battlegrounds -- Arizona and Pennsylvania -- following baseless claims of fraud repeatedly espoused by Trump and the far-right flank.
