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EXCLUSIVE – As the GOP fights to win again the Senate majority, the main tremendous PAC that helps Republican incumbents and candidates says it hauled in $114.5 million through the July-September third quarter of 2024 fundraising.
And the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), in sharing its fundraising figures first with Fox News on Tuesday, studies having $112 million money readily available as of the top of final month.
The group, which is aligned with longtime Senate GOP chief Mitch McConnell, famous that its fundraising the previous three months included a $28 million contribution from One Nation, its allied non-profit group.
And SLF touted that its haul over the previous three months brings to $181 million its fundraising for all the 2024 election cycle – and that it has raked in additional this cycle than it did on the similar level within the 2022 midterms.
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“Our objective from the outset of the cycle was to win again the bulk by serving to recruit nice candidates and elevating sufficient cash to assist them compete towards entrenched, well-funded Democrats. As we method Election Day, our donors have continued to help our efforts in these battleground contests, and we’re grateful for his or her generosity,” SLF President and CEO Steven Law informed Fox News in an announcement.
Democrats maintain a slim 51-49 majority within the Senate, which incorporates three unbiased senators who caucus with the Democratic convention.
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That means Republicans want a web acquire of both one or two seats to win again the bulk – relying on which party controls the White House after this yr’s presidential election.
The math and the map favor the GOP in 2024. Democrats are defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs.
One of these seats is in West Virginia, a deep-red state that former President Trump carried by practically 40 factors in 2020. With average Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Manchin, a former governor, not looking for re-election, flipping the seat is sort of a positive factor for the GOP.
Republicans are additionally aiming to flip seats in Ohio and Montana, two states Trump comfortably carried 4 years in the past. And 5 extra Democrat-held seats up for grabs this yr are in essential presidential election battleground states.
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With Democrats attempting to guard their fragile Senate majority, they acquired one other headache in February when former two-term Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland launched a marketing campaign for an open seat within the closely blue state.
SLF says that it and the allied group American Crossroads have reserved $228.5 million in tv, radio and digital adverts throughout Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan and began spending that cash as of Labor Day.
The two teams are spending a mixed $82.5 million in Ohio, the place longtime Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is combating for his political life towards GOP challenger Berie Moreno, and $47.9 million in Montana, the place polls point out that Republican challenger Tim Sheehy holds a slight lead over Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
SLF is spending $52 million in Pennsylvania, the place polls level to Republican nominee Dave McCormick closing the hole towards Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.
The group can also be dispensing $23.6 million in a really aggressive race in Wisconsin, the place Republican Eric Hovde is difficult Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and $22.5 million in Michigan the place former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers is going through off towards Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin within the race to succeed longtime Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
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