Fact-checking Nancy Pelosi’s fundraising numbers

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Fact-checking Nancy Pelosi’s fundraising numbers
By Glenn Kessler February 14 at 3:00 AM

“HOUSE MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI raised $49.5 million for House Democrats in 2017, including $47.6 million directly for the DCCC, according to her team.”
— Politico Playbook, Feb. 12, 2018

This item about Pelosi’s fundraising — which said “she held 204 fundraising events in 43 cities” — caught our attention. Given other numbers that have been published about the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s fundraising, it raised some questions.

Let’s break down the math.
The Facts

The DCCC says it raised $105.4 million in all of 2017. Of that amount, officials said, an astonishing $42.6 million was raised online.

So, adding together Pelosi’s $47.6 million and the online total of $42.6 million, you get $90.2 million.

The difference between the $90.2 and the $105.4 million is $15.2 million. That seems like a small amount of money, given how many other lawmakers raise money for the DCCC.

But the DCCC and Pelosi’s staff says that’s the wrong way to look at it. The online total includes millions that Pelosi counts as well, because email solicitations were signed by Pelosi. She is also counting direct-mail solicitations that carried her signature.

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