Amid GOP lead­er­ship dra­ma, swing dis­trict Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRe­mer focus­es on home

Repub­li­can wins in deep blue states like Cal­i­for­nia and New York are often cred­it­ed with giv­ing the par­ty its slim House major­i­ty. But a string of 2022 vic­to­ries in small­er pop­u­la­tion states were just as impor­tant, exem­pli­fied by Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRe­mer (R‑OR).
Now the fresh­man con­gress­wom­an’s first 10 months in office offer a play­book for how swing dis­trict Repub­li­cans can posi­tion them­selves to win reelec­tion in 2024. Chavez-DeRe­mer has a hyper­local focus rep­re­sent­ing the south­ern Port­land sub­urbs and cen­tral Ore­gon 5th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict.
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It’s a polit­i­cal neces­si­ty of sorts in the type of House seat Chavez-DeRe­mer holds. It’s one of 18 dis­tricts where in 2020, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden would have beat­en for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, com­pared to just five House seats held by Democ­rats where Trump would have pre­vailed.
The 18 dis­tricts sit square­ly in House Democ­rats’ pol …