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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats crush House Republicans in fundraising
Its another bad omen for the GOPs hopes of holding the House. Some people just cant be saved, says one strategist.
By ELENA SCHNEIDER 04/19/2018 05:28 AM EDT
House Republicans told themselves 2018 would be better after getting swamped by Democratic cash in 2017. But Republican incumbents are actually in worse financial shape now than at the end of last year.
A whopping 43 House Republicans raised less money than Democratic challengers in the first three months of 2018 nearly the same number of stragglers the GOP had at the end of last year, according to POLITICOs analysis of the latest Federal Election Commission filings. An overlapping group of 16 Republican incumbents already have less cash on hand than Democratic challengers, up from the end of 2017, despite hopes that tax reform would open more donor wallets.
The fundraising totals are just the latest indicator of a November nightmare developing for Republicans: a toxic stew of poor presidential popularity, intense Democratic enthusiasm, and a chunk of incumbents whose FEC disclosures show they dont understand how much trouble they could be in for in this political environment.
The members who are getting outraised at this stage of the election cycle are the ones who present the biggest risk to the Republican majority, said Ken Spain, a Republican consultant who served as the National Republican Congressional Committees communications director in 2010. Fundraising is an outgrowth of intensity, so I think this tells you that Republicans are clearly swimming upstream in a challenging election cycle.
The outraised incumbents include some of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country, like Reps. Dana Rohrabacher in California, Jason Lewis in Minnesota and Rod Blum in Iowa. But they also include Republicans who may not have expected to face tough races a year ago but have suddenly found themselves facing energetic and well-financed opponents, like the North Carolina duo of Robert Pittenger and Ted Budd.
Its a mirror image of this time in 2010, seven months before Republicans picked up 63 House seats during President Barack Obamas first term. At this point in the 2010 election cycle, 35 Democratic incumbents were outraised by Republican challengers, and more than a third lost their races in November.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/19/house-republicans-fundraising-2018-midterms-493823
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Democrats crush House Republicans in fundraising (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2018
OP
can't forget Koch brother's $400 million being ready to go into November elections
beachbum bob
Apr 2018
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notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)1. Wish I had some money to give, but rooting hard for the blue wave.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)2. can't forget Koch brother's $400 million being ready to go into November elections
no democratic answer for that level of monies at this time.