Ten Dems

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Site last updated: September 14, 2023

CONTENTS

1. Super-priority list

2. Supplementary list

3. The presidential race

The aim of this website is to identify for which candidates your donations or volunteering are likely to make the greatest difference in helping Democrats keep control of the Senate, and gain control of the House, in 2024.

These lists are based on our conversations with experts in DC who have the best overview of every race in the nation. These are the candidates in the closest races; expected to be within 1 or 2 percentage points. We exclude candidates when they are in competitive Democratic primaries, or their Republican opponent is not yet known and may affect whether the race will be close, or there is a more-than-remote chance of redistricting in the state which may affect whether a House race will be close.

The hyperlink on each candidate’s name links to their campaign website, where you can learn about the candidate, and donate or volunteer if you wish.

1. Super-priority list: Candidates in toss-up races who are most in need of donations and volunteers now (at this early stage this list comprises 9 candidates; in the future 10).

SENATE

• Sherrod Brown (Ohio) – 2022 video clip

HOUSE

• Yadira Caraveo (CO-8) – 2022 video clip
• Adam Gray (CA-13) – 2023 video clip
• Curtis Hertel (MI-7) – 2023 video clip
• Josh Riley (NY-19) – 2022 video clip
• Rudy Salas (CA-22) – 2023 video clip
• Missy Cotter Smasal (VA-2) – 2023 news clip
• Emilia Sykes (OH-13) – 2022 video clip
• Gabe Vasquez (NM-2) – 2022 video clip

2. Supplementary list: Other priority candidates in toss-up races who also need donations and volunteers, but their need is not as pressing as the super-priority candidates at this time.

HOUSE

• Kirsten Engel (AZ-6) – 2022 video clip
• Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-3) – 2022 video clip 
• Will Rollins (CA-41) – 2022 video clip
• George Whitesides (CA-27) – 2023 news clip

3. The presidential race: Clearly this is one of the most important presidential races of our lifetimes. Those wishing to donate to the Biden-Harris re-election campaign can do so via their official website. The better Biden and Harris perform, the more likely the priority Senate and House candidates above will win their toss-up races. And the better the priority candidates who are running in presidential swing states perform (currently Curtis Hertel in Michigan; Kirsten Engel in Arizona), the more likely that Biden-Harris will prevail in those key states.