Exclusive – As the GOP strikes back at its Senate majority, the main super PAC supporting Republican candidates and candidates said it raised $114.5 million in the third quarter from July to September 2024.
And the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), when it shared its fundraising numbers with Fox News on Tuesday, reportedly had $112 million in cash on hand at the end of last month.
The party has long been an ally Senate Republican Party Leader Mitch McConnell, Note that its fundraising over the past three months includes a $28 million contribution from One Nation, its partner nonprofit.
And SLF said its fundraising over the past three months brought its fundraising for the entire 2024 election cycle to $181 million — and more than it raised this cycle during the same period in the 2022 midterm elections.
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“Our goal since the beginning of the cycle has been to win back majorities by helping recruit great candidates and raise enough money to run against entrenched, well-funded Democrats. As we get closer to Election Day, our donors continue to support our efforts. race on the battlefield and we are grateful for their generosity,” SLF President and CEO Steven Law said in a statement to Fox News.
Democrats have a slim 51-49 majority In the Senate, it includes three independent senators who meet with the Democratic Caucus.
Six important Senate seats that could be flipped in November
That means Republicans need a net gain of one or two seats to regain the majority — depending on which party controls the White House after this year's presidential election.
Mathematics and Maps For the Republican Party In 2024. Democrats are defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs.
One of those seats is West Virginia, a deep red state Former President Trump carried by about 40 points in 2020. With independent and moderate Democratic-leaning Senator Joe Manchin, a former governor, not seeking re-election, flipping the seat is almost a certainty for the Republican Party.
Republicans also plan to flip seats in Ohio and Montana, two states that Trump won comfortably four years ago. And five more Democratic-held seats up for grabs this year are in key presidential battleground states.
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As Democrats tried to protect their fragile Senate majority, they got another headache in February when Maryland's former Republican governor, Larry Hogan, began campaigning for an open seat in the heavily blue state.
SLF says it and its American Crossroads group set aside $228.5 million in television, radio and digital advertising in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan and began spending that money starting on Labor Day.
The two groups are spending a combined $82.5 million in Ohio, where longtime Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is fighting for his political life against Republican challenger Berry Moreno, and $47.9 million in Montana, where polls indicate Republican challenger Tim Sheehy is slightly ahead of the Democratic senator. Jon Tester.
The SLF is spending $52 million in Pennsylvania, where polls point to Republican candidate Dave McCormick closing the gap on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.
The group also raised $23.6 million in a highly competitive race in Wisconsin, where Republican Eric Hovde is challenging Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and $22.5 million in Michigan, where former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers is facing Democratic Representative Elisa Slotkin. The race to succeed former Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow.
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