Republicans in the House have even more bad news to deliver to their Democratic colleagues, which makes you wonder how much more the left can take before it goes down for the count. New reports have revealed that the GOP is smashing Democrats in fundraising across several key House battlegrounds.
However, this doesn’t mean Republicans can sit back and take it easy. We have plenty of time before the 2026 midterms to blow progress toward truly restoring America to greatness. Now’s the time to really put our noses to the grindstone and push forward.
One example of this is Rebecca Cooke (D-Wisc.) who is challenging Rep. Derrick Van Orden for his seat. Cooke raised $938,000 and had over $1.2 million on hand. The incumbent ended up raising $1.2 million and already had $1.7 million on hand.
“They’ve got a [joint fundraising agreement] that Mike Johnson raised for them. They didn’t raise it themselves, and they didn’t raise it from individual donors,” Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.) went on to say. “I don’t worry that we’re not going to have the resources to compete with a very unpopular party.”
Check out more on this from Politico:
Meanwhile, several Republicans that Democrats are targeting in Trumpier districts pulled in relatively low fundraising totals — Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) raised just $53,000, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) brought in $142,000 and Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) brought in $253,000. They each hold districts that Trump won by between 5 and 18 points last year, but Democrats still see them as worth targeting, anticipating voter backlash to Trump’s domestic policy agenda.
Not all the threats come from the other party. A handful of incumbents on both sides of the aisle were outraised by primary challengers. Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) was outraised by two challengers, the Justice Democrats-backed state representative Donavan McKinney and former state senator Adam Hollier, although Thanedar made money from cryptocurrency investments.
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.), who raised $142,000, was outraised by challenger Elijah Manley, who brought in $210,000. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) was outraised by challenger Patrick Roath — $267,000 to $164,000 — although Lynch still has more than $1 million in the bank. And Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.), an 80-year old incumbent who faces several primary challengers, raised about $64,000 last quarter and loaned himself $45,000. He was outraised by challengers including Everton Blair, a former school board chair, and state Rep. Jasmine Clark.
There have been several Democrats who have managed to raise more money than their primary challengers. Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) pulled in $212,000 compared to challenger George Hornedo’s $158,000.
At the end of the day, this information supports the idea that Americans really have had enough of radical left-wing policies. If Republicans don’t mess things up, we could see major gains in the GOP’s control over both houses of Congress.
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