
Republican campaign arm uses 2018 Democrats' playbook, prioritizes veteran recruits to take back House
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Republicans are recruiting more veterans in 2022 as they seek to regain control of Congress in the midterms, a tactic Democrats used in 2018 to win the majority in the House.
Aubrie Spady is a college associate for Fox News Digital.
Out of 46 candidates in the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)'s GOP Young Guns initiative, 17 are veterans, the party's House campaign arm says, but that is a fraction of the 252 Republican veterans that filed to run in this year's election cycle, reflecting a successful recruitment effort by the GOP.
The NRCC launched the fourth edition of its "Project Spotlight," an initiative that seeks to highlight candidates with extraordinary backgrounds, like veterans, to help the party pick up House seats in the 2022 midterm elections.