Emptywheel: House Dems' Problem Children Who Ended The Shutdown [View all]
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/13/house-dems-problem-children-who-ended-the-shutdown/
By now youve read the news the shut down ended thanks to a few House Democrats caving and crossing the aisle to vote with the GOP.
These are the problem children:
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) running for re-election, district rated R+2
Jared Golden (ME-02) NOT running for re-election
Adam Gray (CA-13) running for re-election, toss-up district
Don Davis (NC-01) running for re-election, district rated R+1
Henry Cuellar (TX-28) running for re-election, district rated R+2
Tom Suozzi (NY-03) running for re-election, toss-up district
Some are the usual suspects, like Golden and Cuellar and Suozzi.
All of these races are gettable by a Democrat firmly left of these reps given the current dissatisfaction with the Trump administration and his party of enablers. As Charles Gaba pointed out, Dems have overperformed an avg of 15 pts across 55 Special Elections so far, winning 36 of them including *flipping* 6 GOP seats! Democrats running on affordability have done very well.
Golden apparently can read the weather and is bailing out. But the rest of these reps need to be primaried even Cuellar who has been primaried in the past and survived. Suozzi must think affordability is a NYC thing and doesnt affect his district.
More at link.