EXCLUSIVE: The chairman of Home Republicans’ marketing campaign arm is dismissing potential “headwinds” towards the GOP in its struggle to maintain management of the chamber for President Donald Trump’s whole second time period.
Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chair Richard Hudson, R-N.C., expressed confidence Republicans would maintain the Home in 2026 after the group’s Democratic counterpart out-raised the NRCC within the first month of 2025.
“Regardless of the nationwide narrative and headwinds, Home Republicans as soon as once more delivered and earned the votes of the American individuals,” Hudson advised Fox Information Digital of the prior election cycle.
He pledged Republicans would “elevate the funds essential to retain and develop this majority.”
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NRCC Chair Richard Hudson hopes President Donald Trump, inset, could have a Republican Home all 4 years. (Reuters)
“Final cycle, the NRCC used each greenback to maximise turnout, help our candidates, and safe 74.5 million votes forged for a Republican for Congress,” Hudson mentioned. “I am assured in our plan to win once more in 2026.”Â
The Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee (DCCC) introduced earlier this week that it raised over $9 million within the month of January, its finest ever whole for that month in a non-election 12 months.
“Just one month into the Republican trifecta and it’s clear Home Republicans haven’t any plans to decrease prices or handle points that matter to on a regular basis People, as an alternative selecting to cater to their billionaire benefactors,” DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., mentioned in a press launch.
“Home Democrats will maintain Home Republicans accountable for his or her failure to ship on their marketing campaign promise.”
The NRCC raised slightly below $6 million in the identical interval, in accordance with monetary knowledge considered by Fox Information Digital.
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NRCC Chair Richard Hudson leads Home Republicans’ marketing campaign arm. (Getty Photos)
It’s not unusual for the minority celebration within the Home or Senate to outraise the celebration in energy, notably within the months instantly after an election. The nationwide Democratic Get together additionally notably outraised the GOP within the election interval from Jan. 2023 by means of Sept. 2024, in accordance with federal election knowledge.
The DCCC outraised the NRCC by roughly $78 million in that interval.
Regardless of that, Republicans saved the Home and flipped management of the White Home and Senate.
Political historical past dictates that the trifecta won’t maintain for lengthy – the primary midterm after the White Home modifications palms historically sees a political backlash towards the president’s celebration, notably in the event that they held Congress for his or her first two years.
Nonetheless, Hudson advised Fox Information Digital that he sees Republicans breaking that pattern in an interview in the course of the annual Home GOP retreat in Miami late final month.
Trump is in his second time period, and Hudson argued that the 2024 presidential race was a referendum between two clear White Home information.
DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene celebrated Home Democrats’ record-breaking fundraising haul earlier this week. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
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“He has a mandate that I believe is exclusive in historical past. And so this is not a first-term president going into his first midterm. I imply, that is somebody the American individuals know, they usually’ve chosen,” Hudson mentioned.
He additionally identified that Democrats can be defending 13 lawmakers whose districts Trump gained, whereas Republicans solely needed to maintain onto three seats that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024.
“The battlefield on the market for us going into 2026 favors Republicans,” Hudson mentioned.Â
An inner GOP memo shared with Fox Information Digital exhibits the NRCC practically doubled its grassroots fundraising from $1.7 million in January 2023 to $3.2 million in January 2025.
“Evaluating January 2025 to earlier cycles, the NRCC is within the high half for fundraising and the underside half for spending,” the memo mentioned.
