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The Democratic Party is pushing for more conservative voices — with mixed success

One of the DCCC’s favored candidates was a Republican as recently as 2018

Published June 5, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

Early in May, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced a slate of endorsements for candidates like Marlene Galán-Woods, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Arizona’s First Congressional District, which the party is betting has the best shot to unseat Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz.

The catch, however, was that Galán-Woods was a Republican up until 2018 and a supporter of the failed political projects of politicians like former Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah. The explanation for the PAC’s involvement in the primaries was that this was a cold-blooded, calculated move aimed at giving Democrats the best possible chance of winning in November. Election results demonstrate a more complicated narrative.

The suite of endorsements was part of the DCCC’s “2026 Red to Blue” program, which has seen the organization take a more active role in the Democratic Party’s primary. While the DCCC has had a longstanding policy of supporting incumbents, including during primaries, these endorsements are rolling out in races where Democrats are vying to face off against a Republican incumbent, and they are demonstrating the party’s preference for a certain sort of more conservative Democrat.

While Galán-Woods may be the only prominent former Republican the DCCC has put its weight behind, she isn’t the only candidate running to the right of their opponents in primaries that the party has backed. For example, the DCCC endorsed Bob Harvie, vice chair of the Bucks County Board of Commissioners, in the open primary in Pennsylvania’s First District. Similarly, the DCCC endorsed state Sen. Joe Baldacci in the open primary in Maine’s Second District, who is running to the right of former state auditor Matt Dunlap and Jordan Wood, the former executive director of democracyFIRST, a bipartisan pro-democracy political........

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