House Republicans oppose Democrats in the medium term to fund the battle

The fundraising group for House Republicans significantly altered its Democratic counterpart in the second quarter, revealing how a fractured GOP has been able to provide huge sums ahead of next year’s midterm elections. .

Data from the National Committee of the Republican Congress, a fundraising vehicle working to elect Republicans to the lower house of Congress, showed that the NRCC contributed more than $ 45.5 million in the second quarter, including more of $ 20 million in June. Those numbers increased with a $ 6.5 million contribution from Kevin McCarthy and a $ 4.5 million transfer from Steve Scalise, the number one and number two Republican in the House, respectively.

In comparison, the Democratic Congress Campaign Committee, which recruits and funds Democratic House candidates, raised $ 36.5 million in the second quarter and nearly $ 14.4 million in June. Party party committees released fundraising figures before the July 20 submission deadline.

“Republicans were expected to do well if trends continue,” said Brendan Glavin, a senior data analyst at OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan research group.

History favored the party out of power in congressional elections after the first two years of the presidency, Glavin said. He added that large Republican fundraisers indicated “a combination of optimism for next year and the fact that the Democratic majority is very narrow” due to the Democratic losses in 2020.

Republicans have been able to flex fundraising muscles in recent months, even after Donald Trump he left office and exposed huge cracks in the party for his future. Separate disclosures showed that the Republican National Committee upset the Democratic National Committee in May, with a $ 70.4 million contribution compared to the DNC’s $ 68.7 million.

Republicans in Congress are divided on whether they will continue to support the former president. Trump has been banned from most social media platforms for allegations he encouraged of the January 6 Capitol riots and his false false claim that he was “robbed” of the election. Some Republicans want to follow a more moderate path before the interim periods of next year, when control of the House and Senate is ready. Trump has not ruled out running for president again in 2024.

Many Republicans worried that their fundraising dollars would run out on Jan. 6 after several large U.S. companies withdrew donations to party members who voted against certifying Joe’s election. Biden.

But recent nominations from Congress by the Federal Electoral Commission show that the Republican Party has continued to accumulate cash as the semester period of next year approaches.

As Trump lost the White House in the November election, Republicans made gains in the House, reducing the situation Democrats‘majority. And while Democrats now control the Senate, the balance of power in the upper house is precarious: the 100-member body is split, between 50 and 50, between Democrats and Republicans, with Vice President Kamala Harris able to vote a tie.

The Republican National Senate Committee, which is working to elect Republicans to the Senate, said it raised $ 28 million in the second quarter and $ 10.5 million in June. The Democratic counterpart, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, has yet to reveal its fundraising figures for the second quarter.

Trump, who recently reappeared on the national political scene with campaign rallies in Ohio and Florida and an appearance in Texas at CPAC, the Conservative conference, has supported several congressional candidates in races across the country. The latest figures, however, offer a mixed view of the value of a Trump endorsement.

Tim Scott, the South Carolina Republican senator who has built a national brand in part through his efforts to lead bipartisan police reform negotiations, was approved by Trump in March.

Scott raised $ 9.6 million in the second quarter, up from $ 2.1 million in the first quarter, according to FEC statements. This makes Scott, who was re-elected in 2016 with more than 60% of the vote, the second most successful Senate fundraiser in the second quarter. He’s just behind Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate and a formidable fundraising group with a track record of channeling his money to other Democratic candidates.

Meanwhile, Lisa Murkowski, a centrist Republican senator from Alaska who sometimes votes with Democrats, will face a major challenge from her Republican Kelly Tshibaka next year, which Trump passed last month. The former president said Murkowski, one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict him in an impeachment trial for his role in the Jan. 6 riots, was “bad for Alaska.”

But Murkowski raised $ 1.1 million in the second quarter, leaving it with $ 2.3 million in cash. He contributed more than double that of Tshibaka, who raised only $ 544,000 over the same three-month period and ended the quarter with about $ 275,000 in the bank.

Murkowski’s goal underscores the trend of a handful of Republican vocal critics of Trump who have been able to raise large sums in recent months.

FEC presentations show that Liz Cheney, the House Republican who was ousted from her leadership role for her opposition to the president, contributed nearly $ 2 million in the second quarter, above $ 1.5 million of dollars in the first quarter, leaving cash of $ 2.8 million in hand at the end of June.