RSLC Announces State Legislative Targets for 2022

Releases New Video Emphasizing Committee’s Mission to Hold its Ground and Fight for More

Washington D.C.— As it continues to build on shocking the nation with major victories in Virginia and New Jersey last November, the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) today announced its state legislative targets for 2022. The list of target states comes as state Democrats across the country find themselves on defense for being in lockstep with President Biden and his failed liberal agenda that has led to rising inflation, surging crime, and unions still having more say in education than parents.

“We may have started the cycle exclusively trying to defend our razor-thin majorities, but the failures of President Biden and his Democrat allies in the states have created opportunities for us to go on offense in places we never could have imagined,” said RSLC President Dee Duncan. “Democrats across the country will be held accountable for standing by Joe Biden and the disastrous policies that have given us the highest inflation in 40 years, record gas prices, raging crime, and learning loss for an entire generation of kids.” 

2022 TARGETS

The RSLC’s main goal this cycle will still be to defend all of its Republican majorities. Doing so – due to the committee’s upset victory in Virginia in 2021 – would make this the first two-year election cycle since 2013-2014 that Republicans net at least one state legislative chamber. The current political environment also puts certain chambers in play that were out of reach at the beginning of the cycle and presents the RSLC with numerous opportunities to make meaningful gains in liberal strongholds across the country. Read the full target memo HERE.

Defending Republican Majorities

• Arizona

• Florida

• Georgia

• Michigan

• New Hampshire

• North Carolina

• Pennsylvania

• Texas

• Wisconsin

Opportunities to Flip Chambers

• Colorado

• Minnesota
  

Possibilities for Meaningful Gains in Liberal Strongholds

• Illinois

• Maine

• Nevada

• New Mexico

• New York

• Oregon

• Washington

The RSLC today also released a new video emphasizing the committee’s mission this year to hold its ground and fight for more across the country. Watch “Defend America” HERE. 

BACKGROUND

A January Cygnal survey commissioned by the RSLC in key battleground states showed that Republicans have a 6 point lead on the state legislative generic ballot. Among the voters surveyed, 51% said they would prefer a Republican candidate who would act as a check and balance on President Biden and his Democratic policies compared to the 40% who would prefer a Democratic candidate who would support President Biden and his Democratic Policies.

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