NRCC scolds House Republicans to raise more money.
The head of House Republicans' campaign arm said Wednesday that GOP candidates need to rely less on the party's national fundraising apparatus and more on their own fundraising, acknowledging the challenges facing Republican members.
“Our members need to get their act together and raise more money,” National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said at a breakfast event hosted by the Republican-aligned Ripon Society.
“The individual campaigns need to raise more money. They cannot expect somebody else is going to do it for them, and they're going to hear that from me when we come back after the break and we see all the final numbers,” he said.
“That's the one issue that I think we're going to have over the next quarter, is getting these guys moving.”
Emmer’s remarks came roughly a week after the NRCC’s Democratic counterpart, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), announced that it had raked in $14.4 million in December alone, giving it its best fundraising month of 2019.
The NRCC has not yet posted its fourth quarter fundraising numbers. But the DCCC outraised the Republican group in every month of 2019 and carried a significant cash-on-hand advantage at the end of November, the last month for which financial data is publicly available.
Still, Emmer predicted on Wednesday that the GOP would flip control of the House in 2020, arguing that the Democratic Party’s ascendent progressive wing would drive away voters that helped hand it control of the chamber in 2018.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/478575-nrcc-chair-gop-house-members-need-to-get-their-act-together-and-raise-more
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