Democrats Could Take The Senate, As They Are Dominating GOP Candidates In Fundraising

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Posted on Fri, Jul 19th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Democrats Could Take The Senate, As They Are Dominating GOP Candidates In Fundraising


In an early sign that Democrats are in a good position to take back the Senate, Democrats are outraising Republican candidates in all toss-up Senate elections.

FiveThirtyEight reported:

In competitive Senate elections — those that the three major election handicappers rate as anything other than solid red or blue1 — Democrats have raised $34.1 million in total contributions in the first six months of 2019, and Republicans have raised $29.3 million. (A handful of minor candidates did not have second-quarter reports posted on the FEC website as of Tuesday at noon, so these numbers may be incomplete.) That gap is especially troubling for the GOP because there are eight Republican incumbents running in those 14 races, and incumbents usually raise more money than challengers early on. While Democrats have only four incumbents running, they’ve raised more than four times as much as their Republican challengers in those races. And in the two open-seat races, Democrats are outraising Republicans $1.9 million to $763,771.

In addition, Democrats are outraising Republicans in all three of the most competitive races — those rated as “toss-ups” — even though two of them have Republican incumbents.

Here are the numbers by state:

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Strong Democratic fundraising was one of the biggest indicators of the blue wave in 2018. The fact that the strong fundraising has continued is a warning sign for incumbent Republicans who are going to face Democratic challengers who are better funded and can fight for every single vote.

Fundraising matters because that is money that can be used to combat Republican voter suppression efforts. Get out the vote efforts are very expensive. It costs a lot of money to overcome some of the hurdles to voting that Republicans have established in many states. The FiveThirtyEight analysis doesn’t include Sen. Susan Collins who is now the second most hated Senator in the United States.

Donald Trump is sucking up all of the Republican donor money to line his own pockets.

There is less cash to go around on the GOP side, and the climate is looking good for Democrats to take back the Senate next November.

[duforsure]

1. People are running from

The GOP/KGB/KKK/Facist party now. Their polls are paid for, like some of the people paid to attend trump rallies.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Only if they turn out

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Every Rethug Senator that is up for reelection

can be taking down with a half way decent campaign message. Still remember how Harry Truman took the Rethugs to task with his do nothing Congress message.

[CrispyQ]

4. I will be contributing both money & time to unseat Cory Gardner.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Good news, but Beto out-raised his opponent...

Eye on the prize. It sounds like we have some good candidates across the country.

We really do need the Senate. If you flip things around, if we can take the Senate I think that would guarantee we take the White House.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Money is good. But it will take more than that. Lots of hard work.