Dollar dominance: Average vulnerable House Democrat starts 2020 with $1.8 million
Nine months out from Election Day, the latest fundraising reports provide new clues about both parties’ prospects in the battles for the House and Senate.
In the fight for the House, vulnerable Democrats continued to raise eye-popping numbers as their party tries to hold on to its majority. Republican leaders last week sounded the alarm about their candidates’ fundraising, and the latest reports show why.
The reports, which were due at midnight Friday, cover Oct. 1 through Dec. 31. That would include fundraising around the House’s Dec. 18 vote to impeach President Donald Trump. But it appears the immediate impact of impeachment on individual House lawmakers’ numbers was limited. The average amount raised by a vulnerable House Democrat during the fourth quarter was $157,000 higher than the third-quarter average. The average vulnerable Republican also saw an increase, but it was only $33,000.
Senate races continued to attract donors’ attention too, although a few incumbents in some of the most competitive contests continued to be outraised by their challengers.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/6-takeaways-latest-house-senate-fundraising-reports
