What would be your strategy to get to 218 if you're the dccc?

[RINO Tom]

The worry with Option 3 is that there just aren't WWC Obama/Trump seats that are winnable. IA-01 is the only one that's true low-hanging fruit in my eyes, though several of course are winnable.

Realistically a House majority has to make some significant inroads through the suburbs.

I think the idea is those "WWC districts" were voting Democratic about as recently as these "suburban" districts were voting VERY solidly Republican, so maybe the most recent results aren't telling the whole story?

[RINO Tom]

Not sure why Republicans have "no business" winning places in NY, CA and NJ that, ya know, voted those Republicans in!  Not every Republican is a Trumpist (vast majority aren't), and there are still GOP areas in blue states, oftentimes suburban.  Exurbs have taken on the same feel that mid-Twentieth Century suburbs had (new, Whiter, wealthier), and they're voting accordingly Republican, just about everywhere.