House Freedom Caucus chair Andy Harris has argued that supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America are exerting growing influence over the Democratic Party, claiming this could help Republicans retain their narrow House majority at the midterm elections. His remarks, made to Fox News Digital, frame recent left-wing electoral successes as evidence that Democrats are moving further left, though the article presents this as Harris’s political assessment rather than an established fact.

Harris, a Republican congressman from Maryland, said he believed voters could be unsettled by the Democrats’ left flank in November. The article characterises the issue through conservative criticism of Democratic socialism and communism, while providing no detailed election results, polling figures or response from Democratic representatives in the supplied text.