Teresa Benitez-Thompson

Nevada's second district.

This is an incumbent, uh, Mark Amodei retiring, putting Theresa Benitez-Thompson, the Democrat, against David Flippo.

Uh, it's still considered likely R.

Any concerns with that?

And everyone, with the Republicans packing up and moving their money from what they think are lost causes to defend reliably red strongholds like Kansas, which hasn't seen a Democratic senator in almost 100 years, the DCCC now has added six House races to draw attention to districts that Trump won in 2024 that are winnable right now or that have been gerrymandered since then.

We can say that, too And they include, for example, Duane Romero in Colorado, Elliot Rodriguez in Florida 27, Teresa Benitez Thompson in Nevada 2, Blake Gendebien in New York 21, and Justin Pearson in District 9 in Tennessee.

And today, we're speaking with the sixth person that the DCCC has added to that list, Democratic candidate for Arkansas District 2, who ran against Sarah Huckabee Sanders for governor in 2022.

Please welcome Chris Jones.

Mark Amodei re- retiring.

Um, the Democrat, Theresa Benitez-Thompson, and Dave Philippo, Phil- yeah, Philippo, uh, the Republican.

Club for Growth is out there supporting him with $400,000.

Let me play you the ad real quick.

Daycare, diapers, doctors, gas and groceries, medication.

Life's already expensive.

It'll cost even more with Theresa Benitez-Thompson in Congress.

Benitez-Thompson backs policies that will raise the cost of life's necessities, pricing us out of the American dream.

The others face even longer odds.

For instance, Nevada's Second Congressional District, where candidate Theresa Benitez-Thompson earned the Red to Blue nod.

That district has not elected a Democrat since its creation in the early 1980s.

A spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee said describing that race as competitive is delusional.

It started when, uh, when I was in the state senate, uh, working with then, uh, she may have been the majority leader in the state assembly at the time.

Uh, she ultimately, ultimately became my chief of staff, Teresa Benitez-Thompson.

We co-sponsored a bill, uh, to require these rape test kits to be, uh, to be tested sooner, um, and to have our state to track them because we learned that, in fact, I think to use your phraseology that you s- that you indicated, we had been failing victims and survivors of, of rape.

Um, we had thousands of kits that had not been tested, meaning justice had not been served.

Look, at the end of the day, um, I'm determined to stop at nothing in order to protect our women, um, and, and, and our, uh, young girls from, from such horrendous, uh, experiences.

And so again, as governor, I'm going to continue to commit these types of resources, um, uh, and the effort, um, beginning at the top, to ensure that we're able to, um, um, to, to bring justice in these circumstances.

Uh, and incidentally, my chief of staff, she was my chief of staff.

She no longer is.

Yep.

I'm writing to highlight Teresa Benitez Thompson, who's running for Nevada Congressional District 2 against David Flippo for the seat left open by Mark Amodei's departure.

This is a huge opportunity to pick up a seat that has never been held by a Democrat.

In 2003, Teresa was Miss Nevada, and during the talent portion of the Miss America contest, she recited the words of Dennis Shepard, who spoke out in court about his son Matthew.