Bustos' exit opens up race for DCCC chair - Roll Call

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Cárdenas chaired BOLD PAC, the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, during the 2020 cycle. The group spent nearly $12.2 million this cycle supporting Latino candidates for Congress as well as non-Latino candidates the group endorsed. 

Cárdenas, who is abandoning his bid for assistant speaker to run for the lower-ranking DCCC post, has already won support from one lawmaker in a swing district. Rep. Susan Wild, who recently won reelection in Pennsylvania’s 7th District, tweeted Monday that Cárdenas had her “full support” due to his work with the Hispanic Caucus. 

Maloney’s announcement that he would run for DCCC chairman comes even though The Associated Press has not yet called his own race in New York’s 18th District. Maloney was one of 30 Democrats running for reelection in districts President Donald Trump carried in 2016, and he currently leads Republican opponent Chele Farley by nearly 8,000 votes. New York accepts absentee ballots as late as Tuesday as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

Maloney also attempted to run for DCCC chair two years ago, in the first ever contested race for the position. He dropped out of the race because an infection prevented him from returning to the District of Columbia for the vote. After Democrats failed to flip the House in 2016, Maloney conducted an extensive review of the committee, which he touted in his ill-fated run two years ago, and again in a letter to his colleagues Monday. 

“This project afforded me the opportunity to truly unpack the DCCC, including its budget, challenges, personnel structure, and national operations,” Maloney wrote. “Obviously Chairs [Ben Ray] Lujan and Bustos have made important changes since the Deep Dive, but this unique knowledge base will shorten the learning curve and allow me to hit the ground running immediately.”

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