ICYMI: RSLC President Dee Duncan Joins SiriusXM to Discuss RSLC’s Republican Momentum Heading into 2022

RSLC President Dee Duncan joined the Julie Mason Mornings Show on SiriusXM for an in-depth discussion about the committee’s historic wins in last month’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey, the strong momentum for state Republicans ahead of 2022, and the progress we are making in recruiting, training, and supporting more diverse candidates for state office. 

The full interview can be found HERE. 

HIGHLIGHTS

Julie Mason highlights how Republicans continue to win at the state level

"Republicans are so good at running operations at the state level. So 23 Republican trifectas in this country, Republican governors, Senate and House. They are really strong on redistricting this year and seem to be carrying the day on that process and really at the state legislative level."

Dee Duncan on recruiting diverse GOP candidates 

“We know that if the Republican Party is going to continue to grow and going to continue to have success that we have to focus on candidate recruitment and that we have to have diverse candidates, women candidates who are from their communities look like their communities who speak like their communities that doesn’t have to be necessarily just the next person up who has been involved in the county party for a long time.”  

Dee Duncan on success of state Republicans in 2021 

“2021 was a great success, flipping the chamber in Virginia in the legislature, picking up seven seats in the state of New Jersey and winning a statewide supreme court race in Pennsylvania, flipping a deep blue seat in South Texas at the state legislature, and looking at what happened at the top of the ticket in Virginia with Glen Younkin with Winsome Sears as the Lieutenant Governor, the first woman of color ever elected statewide in Virginia, Jason Miyares the first Latino ever elected statewide. I would say 2021 was a great night and set the stage for 2022.”    

Dee Duncan on difference between GOP and Democrat messaging strategy

“They weren’t focusing on the issues voters cared about. They wanted to make every candidate across the country at the state level run on the fact that my opponent is Donald Trump and I am not. We saw that President Trump’s policies were very popular and that if our candidate’s good candidates that would run on the messages of their communities, that would be very successful.” 

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