
<p>Emboldened congressional Democrats are expanding their battleground map for this year&#8217;s ;midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their razor-thin majority in the House. But the ;National Republican Congressional Committee ;(NRCC) chairman, Rep. Richard Hudson, isn&#8217;t buying it.</p>



<p>&#8220;I mean, I&#8217;ve read fiction my whole life, and I recognize it when I see it,&#8221; Hudson said in an exclusive interview with Fox News.</p>



<p>Republicans currently control the House 218-214, with two right-tilting districts and one left-leaning seat currently vacant. Democrats need a net gain of just three seats in the midterms to win back the majority for the first time in four years.</p>



<p>The ;Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ;(DCCC) this week added five more offensive opportunities in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, South Carolina and Virginia to their list of what they consider are vulnerable Republican-held House districts.</p>



<p>That brings the total number of districts Democrats are hoping to flip to 44. The DCCC notes that all five of the new districts they&#8217;re adding to their list of &#8220;offensive targets&#8221; were carried by President ;Donald Trump ;by 13 points or fewer in the 2024 elections.</p>



<p>When asked about the DCCC&#8217;s move, Hudson scoffed.</p>



<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve got to have a list they can present to their donors,&#8221; he said as he pointed to the DCCC. &#8220;But it&#8217;s not realistic. I mean, if you look at the map, there are very few seats up for grabs, and the majority of those seats are held by Democrats, but they&#8217;re seats that Donald Trump has carried or came very close&#8230;. if you look at the seats that we&#8217;ll be competing for this fall. They&#8217;re all favoring Republicans.&#8221;</p>



<p>The House ;GOP campaign chair added, &#8220;If you look at the map, it&#8217;s a Republican map. We just got to go out and win those races.&#8221;</p>



<p>The move by the DCCC comes as Democrats are energized, despite the party&#8217;s polling woes. Democrats, thanks to their laser ;focus on affordability ;amid persistent inflation, scored decisive victories in the 2025 elections and have won or over performed in a slew of scheduled and special ballot box contests since Trump returned to the White House over a year ago.</p>



<p>Yet the latest national surveys do indicate the Democrats ahead of the Republicans by mid-single digits in the so-called generic ballot question, which asks respondents whether they&#8217;d back the Democratic or GOP candidate in their congressional district without offering specific candidate names.</p>



<p>Asked about the polls, Hudson said, &#8220;We almost never lead in the generic ballot. But a single digit generic ballot, we do very well.&#8221;</p>



<p>And the House GOP campaign chair said he remains &#8220;very bullish,&#8221; adding, I’m Not going to give you a number, but we&#8217;re going to hold the majority,&#8221; he predicted. &#8220;President Trump was elected with a very specific agenda. We delivered almost his entire domestic agenda, and we&#8217;re going to go back to the voters and say promises made, promises kept, and they&#8217;re going to keep this House majority.&#8221;</p>

RNC Chair Dismisses New Dem Target Map as “Fiction”
