‘Bad News For Republicans’: GOP’s Third Quarter Campaign Fundraising Lags Behind Dems In Key House R

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‘Bad News For Republicans’: GOP’s Third Quarter Campaign Fundraising Lags Behind Dems In Key House Races


Robert Schmad
Contributor
October 19, 2023 8:19 PM ET


    Republican campaigns were outraised by Democrats in a number of key House races during the third quarter of 2023.
    Across the 24 races rated as toss ups by Cook Political Report, Democratic campaigns raised a total of $12,864,513, with Republicans only pulling in $8,941,076.
    “Most of the current toss-up races in 2024 are defended by Republican incumbents, so ordinarily, I’d expect Republicans to be out-raising Democrats, even in a bad year for Republican incumbents,” an University of Missouri economics professor told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Democrats outraised their Republicans opponents in toss up races during the third quarter as control of the House in 2024 remains uncertain, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of campaign finance reports.

Across the 24 seats Cook Political Report rated as toss ups, meaning that “either party has a good chance of winning,” Democratic campaigns outraised Republican campaigns in 14 of them between July 1 and Sept. 30. Democrats took in a total of $12,864,513 compared to just $8,941,076 among Republicans contesting the same seats.

“That’s bad news for Republicans,” Jeffery Milyo, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri, told the DCNF. “Most of the current toss-up races in 2024 are defended by Republican incumbents, so ordinarily, I’d expect Republicans to be out-raising Democrats, even in a bad year for Republican incumbents … but if Democratic challengers are outraising Republican incumbents, that is very bad news for the prospects of Republican incumbents in toss-up districts,” he went on.

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[libertybele]

It's a shame that $$$ decides the political outcome and future of our nation.

[Free Vulcan]

When your opposition is funneling foreign money thru Act Blue, it's hard to win the money game.

Not to mention the kickback from all the drunken sailor spending.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Why would any sane person want to contribute their money to fund failure and incompetence in the GOP House?

GOP has WINRED as their small donations aggregator.

GOP megadonors launder their donations through layered PACs, SuperPACs, Foundations, Institutes, and LLC's.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The death rattles of the establishment GOP begin.

[LMAO]

Why would any sane person want to contribute their money to fund failure and incompetence in the GOP House?

We are probably going to lose the HOR next year. Or, at the very least, have an already narrow margin majority reduced. Lauren Boebert won’t be going back after next year.

So Democrats will probably take the HOR and the presidency. The hope for the GOP is in state races, and the senate

[cato potatoe]

It's a shame that $$$ decides the political outcome and future of our nation.

It may swing the presidential election.  Trump will have little to spend, and the dems will smack him with $2 billion.  Seems entirely avoidable, but trumpers don’t think that far ahead.

[Fishrrman]

bele laments:
"It's a shame that $$$ decides the political outcome and future of our nation"

I don't watch political ads.
Not even the ones "for our side".
I keep the sound turned OFF when I'm not watching tv.
(of course, the ONLY tv I watch is Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune).

Tell me honestly...
Who here actually pays any attention to political ads?
If so... why?

[Hoodat]

It's a shame that $$$ decides the political outcome and future of our nation.

It's a shame that government $$$ decides the political outcome and future of our nation, and that Republicans in Congress are too stupid to recognize it.  Think of the tens of millions of dollars of Covid money that Biden will be handing out between August and November of next year.  And to think that McCarthy's and McConnell's Republicans had a golden opportunity to block it, but chose to punt instead.

[libertybele]

It's a shame that government $$$ decides the political outcome and future of our nation, and that Republicans in Congress are too stupid to recognize it.  Think of the tens of millions of dollars of Covid money that Biden will be handing out between August and November of next year.  And to think that McCarthy's and McConnell's Republicans had a golden opportunity to block it, but chose to punt instead.

McConnell and McCarthy -  two peas in a pod. 

[sneakypete]

Well,the RNC donations come from Americans who are interested in preserving America.

The big DNC donations come from uber-wealthy Americans like Bill Gates,as well as foreign govenrments and foreign banks.

Yeah,the illegal aliens the DNC has been importing into the US will be reliable Dim voters,but they have no real money to donate,and wouldn't donate any if they had it. What THEY care about is living the easy life in America.

Sadly,America seems to be bordering on being for sale to the highest bidder,providing of course that the highest bidder is a "One World Globalist".

[LMAO]

It may swing the presidential election.  Trump will have little to spend, and the dems will smack him with $2 billion.  Seems entirely avoidable, but trumpers don’t think that far ahead.

And it may also swing House races

Our luck may improve in the Senate simply because the Democrats have more seats to defend in 2024 than the GOP