EXCLUSIVE – Because the GOP fights to win again the Senate majority, the main tremendous PAC that helps Republican incumbents and candidates says it hauled in $114.5 million throughout the July-September third quarter of 2024 fundraising.
And the Senate Management Fund (SLF), in sharing its fundraising figures first with Fox Information on Tuesday, studies having $112 million money available as of the top of final month.
The group, which is aligned with longtime Senate GOP chief Mitch McConnell, famous that its fundraising the previous three months included a $28 million contribution from One Nation, its allied non-profit group.
And SLF touted that its haul over the previous three months brings to $181 million its fundraising for the complete 2024 election cycle – and that it has raked in additional this cycle than it did on the similar level within the 2022 midterms.
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“Our purpose from the outset of the cycle was to win again the bulk by serving to recruit nice candidates and elevating sufficient cash to assist them compete in opposition to entrenched, well-funded Democrats. As we strategy Election Day, our donors have continued to assist our efforts in these battleground contests, and we’re grateful for his or her generosity,” SLF President and CEO Steven Regulation instructed Fox Information in an announcement.
Democrats maintain a slim 51-49 majority within the Senate, which incorporates three impartial senators who caucus with the Democratic convention.
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Which means Republicans want a web achieve of both one or two seats to win again the bulk – relying on which social gathering controls the White Home after this 12 months’s presidential election.
The maths and the map favor the GOP in 2024. Democrats are defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs.Â
A kind of seats is in West Virginia, a deep-red state that former President Trump carried by practically 40 factors in 2020. With reasonable Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Manchin, a former governor, not in search of re-election, flipping the seat is sort of a positive factor for the GOP.
Republicans are additionally aiming to flip seats in Ohio and Montana, two states Trump comfortably carried 4 years in the past. And 5 extra Democrat-held seats up for grabs this 12 months are in essential presidential election battleground states.
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With Democrats making an attempt to guard their fragile Senate majority, they obtained one other headache in February when former two-term Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland launched a marketing campaign for an open seat within the closely blue state.
SLF says that it and the allied group American Crossroads have reserved $228.5 million in tv, radio and digital advertisements throughout Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan and began spending that cash as of Labor Day.Â
The 2 teams are spending a mixed $82.5 million in Ohio, the place longtime Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is combating for his political life in opposition to GOP challenger Berie Moreno, and $47.9 million in Montana, the place polls point out that Republican challenger Tim Sheehy holds a slight lead over Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
SLF is spending $52 million in Pennsylvania, the place polls level to Republican nominee Dave McCormick closing the hole in opposition to Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.
The group can also be allotting $23.6 million in a really aggressive race in Wisconsin, the place Republican Eric Hovde is difficult Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and $22.5 million in Michigan the place former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers is going through off in opposition to Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin within the race to succeed longtime Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
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