M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about congressional Democrats’ plans for their next period of control on Capitol Hill.
Recent stinging redistricting losses not withstanding, Democrats at least outwardly remain confident about their chances to take back the House in November. And the left-wing legal apparatus is laying the groundwork to go to war on election-integrity warriors the minute they have a friendlier Congress to work with.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has been tracking the left’s playbook as Democrats line up their targets for the next session of Congress.
“You are going to see a nationwide campaign,” Logan Churchwell, the foundation’s research director, told The Federalist in a recent interview. “Liberals are preparing for payback, assuming the political winds shift in their favor.”
There’s not much the minority party can do at the moment beyond political temper tantrums, but they’re looking to 2027 with ravenous eyes.
Historically, midterms have been unkind to the party in power at the White House. Democrats were feeling pretty cocky about taking back the House, maybe even the Senate — that is until their gerrymandering gambit blew up in their faces. A double whammy of Virginia Dems failing in their scheme to steal four congressional seats via a rigged redistricting plan and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling ending racially gerrymandered districts has made the road to the House majority much more complicated.
And polling, always subject to change and generally suspect, suggests Democrats are stuck in their own mud. A You/Gov poll last week found 37 percent of respondents would vote for the Democrat in their district, while 34 percent would vote for the Republican. All things considered, that’s effectively a dead heat. …
… Investigation letters from congressional committee ranking members and Freedom of Information Act lawsuits reviewed by The Federalist tip off what House Democrats are planning when they’re back in power. They will weaponize every committee they can against the leaders of the election-integrity movement.
