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 POLITICO’s 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.
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Sorry if I call BS. Some of these are heavy GOP districts where Dems don't win much. So how are they getting the cash?
I can tell you from living in a heavy Dem county, that there isn't a wide base of GOP donors to fund candidates. The opposition can't raise that kind of money because there just isn't enough of them to do that.
The DNC is broke, I don't know about the unions, but there's definitely a spigot of outside money that's been turned on to fund these guys.
