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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Alan Nunnelee | 74% | |||
John Shimkus | 74% | |||
NV | U.S. House - 2 | Mark Amodei | Republican | 73% |
FL | U.S. House - 11 | Daniel Webster | Republican | 73% |
Dan Benishek | 72% | |||
Bob Gibbs | 72% | |||
AR | Attorney General | Tim Griffin | Republican | 72% |
Bill Johnson | 72% | |||
PA | U.S. House - 16 | Mike Kelly, Jr. | Republican | 72% |
Adam Kinzinger | 72% | |||
AK | U.S. Senate - Sr | Lisa Murkowski | Republican | 72% |
Jim Renacci | 72% | |||
Tom Rooney | 72% | |||
Pat Tiberi | 72% | |||
Rob Woodall | 72% | |||
Thad Cochran | 71% | |||
Bill Flores | 71% | |||
Jeff Fortenberry | 71% | |||
Rodney Frelinghuysen | 71% | |||
Candice Miller | 71% | |||
Tom Petri | 71% | |||
MO | U.S. House - 8 | Jason Smith | Republican | 71% |
PA | U.S. House - 15 | GT Thompson, Jr. | Republican | 71% |
Blake Farenthold | 70% | |||
Leonard Lance | 70% | |||
SD | Governor | Kristi Noem | Republican | 70% |
Erik Paulsen | 70% | |||
Martha Roby | 70% | |||
ID | U.S. House - 2 | Mike Simpson | Republican | 70% |
Fred Upton | 70% | |||
Ed Whitfield | 70% | |||
Walter Jones, Jr. | 69% | |||
Tom Marino | 69% | |||
Tim Murphy | 69% | |||
OH | U.S. House - 10 | Mike Turner | Republican | 69% |
Steven Palazzo | 68% | |||
AL | U.S. House - 3 | Mike Rogers | Republican | 68% |
Steve Stivers | 68% | |||
AR | U.S. House - 3 | Steve Womack | Republican | 68% |
KY | U.S. House - 6 | Andy Barr | Republican | 67% |
FL | U.S. House - 16 | Vern Buchanan | Republican | 67% |
NC | U.S. House - 9 | Richard Hudson, Jr. | Republican | 67% |
Luke Messer | 67% | |||
MO | U.S. House - 2 | Ann Wagner | Republican | 67% |
Jeff Denham | 66% | |||
Renee Ellmers | 66% | |||
FL | U.S. House - 26 | Mario Diaz-Balart | Republican | 64% |
Jim Gerlach | 63% | |||
KY | U.S. House - 4 | Thomas Massie | Republican | 63% |
David McKinley | 63% | |||
Jon Runyan | 63% | |||
Frank Wolf | 63% | |||
Jaime Herrera Beutler | 62% | |||
Pete King | 61% | |||
Lou Barletta | 60% | |||
WV | U.S. Senate - Jr | Shelley Capito | Republican | 60% |
Susan Brooks | 58% | |||
ND | U.S. Senate - Jr | Kevin Cramer | Republican | 58% |
Charlie Dent | 58% | |||
ND | U.S. Senate - Sr | John Hoeven | Republican | 58% |
Tom Rice | 58% | |||
Chris Stewart | 58% | |||
Jackie Walorski | 58% | |||
Ted Yoho | 58% | |||
Dave Reichert | 57% | |||
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | 57% | |||
Pat Meehan | 55% | |||
Frank LoBiondo | 54% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 4 | Chris Smith | Republican | 54% |
Jo Ann Emerson | 53% | |||
Mike Fitzpatrick | 53% | |||
Richard Hanna | 51% | |||
Donald Young | 51% | |||
Bradley Byrne | 50% | |||
Jeffrey Chiesa | 50% | |||
Chris Collins | 50% | |||
OH | U.S. House - 14 | Dave Joyce | Republican | 50% |
CA | U.S. House - 22 | David Valadao | Republican | 50% |
Michael Grimm | 46% | |||
ME | U.S. Senate - Sr | Susan Collins | Republican | 44% |
Rodney Davis | 42% | |||
Chris Gibson | 42% | |||
Mike McIntyre | 38% | |||
Jim Matheson | 35% | |||
NJ | U.S. Senate - Jr | Cory Booker | Democratic | 33% |
MA | U.S. House - 5 | Katherine Clark | Democratic | 33% |
John Barrow | 32% | |||
Collin Peterson | 30% | |||
WV | U.S. Senate - Sr | Joe Manchin III | Democratic | 26% |
WI | U.S. House - 2 | Mark Pocan | Democratic | 25% |
Filemon Vela, Jr. | 25% | |||
Jim Cooper | 24% | |||
Mary Landrieu | 20% | |||
Peter DeFazio | 19% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 20 | Joaquin Castro | Democratic | 18% |
Claire McCaskill | 18% | |||
Gloria Negrete McLeod | 18% | |||
PA | U.S. House - 8 | Matt Cartwright | Democratic | 17% |
CA | U.S. House - 29 | Tony Cárdenas | Democratic | 17% |
Bill Enyart | 17% |