The super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan has opened six more field offices as Republicans prepare to to defend their majority in a tough 2018 election cycle.
Congressional Leadership Fund is investing millions on field teams to supplement vulnerable Republican campaigns in House districts the Democrats are targeting. The new offices bring CLF’s total field outposts to 17, each with a full time political operative to run operations and volunteer army to knock on doors, in work that began more than a year before the midterm.
“Our data-driven field program is expanding, but more importantly, our staff and interns are building relationships and having ongoing conversations with voters across key congressional districts fourteen months before the midterm elections,” CLF executive director Corry Bliss said in a statement.
The six districts with new field offices, which provide further clues to where Republicans believe the battle for Congress will be won and lost, include: Rep. Mike Bost in Illinois’ 12th; Rep. Kevin Yoder in Kansas’ 3rd; Rep. Tom MacArthur in New Jersey’s 3rd; Rep. Leonard Lance in New Jersey’s 7th; Rep. Ryan Costello in Pennsylvania’s 6th and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania’s 8th.
CLF volunteers have knocked on more than 2 million doors total, to date. The Republicans hold a 24-seat House majority.
