The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)—House Democrats’ campaign arm—added five candidates on Aug. 20 to its “Red to Blue” program, an initiative the committee uses to direct money, staff, and training to challengers it considers best positioned to flip Republican-held House seats.
The additions bring the roster to 37, with roughly two-and-a-half months left before the Nov. 3 election.
Three of the five are military veterans or former prosecutors. Leela Gray, a retired Army brigadier general, is running in Florida’s 13th District against incumbent U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.).
Nancy Lacore, a retired vice admiral and chief of Navy Reserve, is running in South Carolina’s 1st District, an open seat that Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is vacating. …