NEW: Despite Broad Public Support for Abortion, Colorado Republican Reichert Bucks Guidance to “Skirt” Extreme Attacks

Tensions are high between the National Republican Congressional Committee and their top recruits - including Colorado's 7th Congressional Republican candidate Tim Reichert - on the issue of abortion, according to a new report in The Daily Beast.

In a recent GOP primary debate, Reichert put the NRCC and Republican consultants on blast, claiming national Republicans - who are well aware that more than 60% of Americans support Roe v. Wade - are insisting House candidates skirt the issue of abortion rights.

Despite the guidance, Reichert, who has claimed abortion is a human sacrifice, joins Republican House candidates across the country in campaigning for further attacks on reproductive rights. In the same debate, Reichert stated he is "grateful to God" for the opportunity the Supreme Court's overturn of Roe presents to the Republican party.

Numerous reports have indiciated Republicans will not stop their crusade against abortion rights at overturning Roe. There is a 'serious risk ' of a nationwide abortion ban and draconian curtails to contraception access if Republicans retake majorities in Congress this fall.

"Extreme Republicans like Tim Reichert, who just can't help but campaign on a wishlist of attacks against women's reproductive rights, are becoming a headache for national Republicans who know their party's radical position on abortion is a losing argument with voters in battleground districts," said DCCC spokesperson Maddy Mundy.

Read more about national Republicans' struggle to keep extreme Republicans like Tim Reichert in line below:

The Daily Beast: GOP Candidates Stop Worrying and Embrace Hard-Line Rhetoric on Abortion
By Sam Brodey
May 23, 2022

• Reichert, a leading candidate in Colorado's 7th District, didn't just want to talk about abortion on May 9; he wanted to publicly push back on GOP campaign brass for trying to change the subject.

• "I want to say something about the way in which the NRCC and political consultants are telling candidates to approach this," Reichert said, name-checking the National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP's official arm for House races. "They're saying, 'No, hey, this Dobbs decision? You should kind of skirt this, you should talk about economic issues.'"

• Reichert, an economist with a long history of anti-abortion activism, clearly feels differently. During the debate in the small mountain town of Bailey, he argued this moment presents an "incredible opportunity" for the GOP to explain why their anti-abortion position makes it the "natural home" for women and for "the marginalized, the poor, and the smallest among us."

• Colorado's 7th District isn't the only purple district where top GOP recruits have embraced the imminent downfall of abortion rights; at least five other House candidates across the country have, too, through tweets, public statements, and fundraising appeals.

• It is clear that Republican campaign leaders are declining opportunities to emphasize the party's near-uniform support of the court's expected rollback of abortion rights. In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), chair of the NRCC, downplayed the role that abortion would play in motivating voters in the 2022 elections.

• To the extent Republicans are going on the offensive, it's against what they argue are Democrats' unpopular positions on […] restrictions. But doing so could be difficult in districts where the GOP's own candidates are pushing more partisan positions and rhetoric on the issue.

• Reichert, for instance, has not only supported banning abortion but called it a "human sacrifice" in a speech to the Catholic Charities of Denver last year, HuffPost reported in April.