Democrats awash with cash in battle for Senate
A wave of cash is building behind Democrats as they look to take full control of the government.
Democratic candidates are raising enormous sums of money four months out from Election Day, with several Senate Democratic challengers smashing fundraising records in states that will determine which party holds the majority in the upper chamber.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden outraised President Trump for the second consecutive month in June. In the second quarter of the year, Democratic Senate candidates in Montana, North Carolina and South Carolina posted record-setting fundraising totals for their states. In Maine, Democrat Sara Gideon raised more than twice as much as Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the pre-primary period spanning April, May and most of June.
The fundraising hauls come as Biden emerges as the favorite to win the White House and the playing field tilts in favor of Democrats to win a majority in the Senate.
“The Republican campaigns should be alarmed,” John Pudner, a veteran Republican campaign operative who now runs the nonpartisan group Take Back Our Republic. “There’s this theory that there’s not a lot of enthusiasm for Biden, but there’s so much Democratic enthusiasm to get rid of Trump ... it just seems like there’s a lot more money for the left to tap into and we’re seeing that with the tens of millions of small dollar donations going through ActBlue. That points to a lot of enthusiasm for Democrats.”
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