Inside the GOP's plan to retake the House

The memo is blunt about candidate recruitment.

“In 2020, all 15 of the seats Republicans flipped were won by a woman, a minority or a veteran,” Conston writes. “Continuing to recruit similar candidates is a foundational building block to the majority in 2022.”

Between the lines: House Republican candidates performed substantially better than Donald Trump did in suburban districts. The suburbs don’t need to be the GOP killing fields that they were under Trump.

Republicans will benefit in 2022 from “Democrats’ overreach” on policies such as lengthy school closures, curtailment of fracking and pipeline cancellations, Conston writes.

The big picture: The memo sounds the alarm about insufficient Republican candidate fundraising, calling it the “single biggest threat to Republicans taking back the majority.”