DCCC targets 35 House Republicans over budget law's impact on rural hospitals
Source: Roll Call
Posted July 7, 2025 at 7:00am
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s first national online ad buy of the 2026 cycle will focus on the impact of Republicans’ newly enacted tax and spending package on rural hospitals.
The digital ads, shared first with CQ Roll Call, are set to begin running this week on Facebook and Instagram and target the 35 House Republicans the DCCC has marked for defeat next year. “Because of [his or her] vote, rural hospitals across America are now at risk of closing,” reads the text of these spots.
The four-figure digital buy is likely to be the first in a wave of ads by campaign committees and super PACs aligned with both parties spotlighting the sweeping GOP-led measure, which narrowly passed both chambers last week.
The DCCC aims to make sure “every battleground voter knows that instead of lowering costs for American families, Republicans are ripping away health care for millions and cutting funding for hospitals, all to pay for massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors,” committee spokesperson Viet Shelton said in a statement.
Read more: https://rollcall.com/2025/07/07/dccc-ads-republicans-vulnerable-rural-hospitals/
Link to DCCC PRESS RELEASE - DCCC Launches Digital Ads Holding Vulnerable House Republicans Accountable for Their Vote to Jeopardize America’s Rural Hospitals
List of targeted districts - https://dccc.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=770f7b12a915ba3a02d78536b&id=aede717459&e=4340c821ef
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And since the current DCCC"frontliners," are in different districts from these newly "competitive" ones...
the DCCC must not allow any rethug to run "unopposed" in those "competitive" R districts, so at least oligarchs have to spend money to keep the vulnerable incumbents afloat.
Because in the past the DCCC hasn't run Democratic challengers in red states (at least in FL, anyway) due to claiming they're "unelectable." I've had a problem with that label.
IMO, if there were any time that all our candidates are electable, even in FL, it would be the next 15 months.
Thanks for faithfully keeping us updated. 
