National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Richard Hudson tells Punchbowl News he’s feeling good about House Republicans hanging on to the majority in 2024 – despite what you might call “headwinds” – saying they’ve “got great candidates all over the country, I think we’ve got a tremendous opportunity to grow the majority. So we’ll see what the issue sets are next year.”
Hudson was maybe just a little more terse when asked if he had any direct response to Democratic optimism that their messaging on abortion will play well, even in red states, saying only “Nah.”
“Moderate” California Republican Congressman John Duarte was more willing to confront the grim reality of the ongoing clusterfuck being self-inflicted by his harder-right colleagues. “I don’t think some of these guys have cable. I mean, did they not watch the election results? The American people do not want a federal abortion policy. They want very carefully considered state abortion policy, so we need to leave this alone,” Duarte said about why he and other vulnerable GOP members have been opposing bills like the agriculture package that had included an amendment to prohibit the access to over-the-counter birth control and other suicidally stupid shit.