House Republicans see repeat of 2010 red wave building for 2022

House Republicans are targeting a mammoth 70 Democratic districts as they look to run a replay of 2010, when the party netted 63 seats in midterm elections on its way to recapturing the majority in a historic electoral swing.

In a memorandum issued exactly one year before Election Day, the National Republican Congressional Committee announced 13 Democratic-held districts have been added to its takeover list and bragged it had recruited a record number, and ethnically diverse array, of 2022 candidates. The total number of Republicans filed to seek the House is 831, with almost 90% of those running in the 70 targeted districts either a woman, military veteran, or member of a minority community.

Republicans need to flip only five seats to win the speaker’s gavel.

“One year from now, Republicans will retake the House majority and put a stop to Democrats' big government policies,” Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the NRCC chairman, said in a statement accompanying the memo issued Monday.