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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen 1h
NEW: The DCCC outraised the NRCC in Q3, with Democrats bringing in $35.8 million compared to Republicans $25.8 million. The haul is an off-election year record.
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Thursday, October 14, 2021
DCCC Raises Record-Breaking $35.8 Million In Q3, Bests NRCCs Third Quarter By More Than $10 million
Thanks to fired-up Democratic donors, the DCCC will once again report a record-breaking fundraising haul. DCCC had its best off-year September, raising nearly $14.5 million. Powered by months of early fundraising success, the DCCC recorded its best off-year third quarter in committee history, with nearly $35.8 million raised. The DCCCs totals beat the NRCCs weaker September and third quarter fundraising.
Were winning on fundraising because our supporters know just how dangerous it would be for the country if Republicans were in charge. The stakes are high and we believe voters will reject their dangerous vision for America, which is about pushing junk science while Americans die despite access to life-saving vaccines, openly attacking our elections, and allowing womens rights to be rolled away, said DCCC Chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. House Democrats and Speaker Pelosi have stood firm in our fight building a more prosperous and inclusive nation and American voters see that.
At the end of the third quarter, the DCCC heads into the last quarter of the off-year debt free with nearly $63 million cash on hand, $26 million more than the DCCC held at this point in 2019.
https://dccc.org/dccc-again-breaks-fundraising-records-posting-best-ever-off-year-september-and-third-quarter/
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)Now if only they'd support Dems other than "conservadems".
We have the DCCC to thank for Kirsten Sinema. That hasn't worked out too well.
I'd like to see the DCCC and other such groups support the progressives that have been working their asses off on Biden's agenda. Instead of the "moderate" conservadems who are doing the dirtywork of republicons.
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AZSkiffyGeek
(11,008 posts)Fixed it for you.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)AZSkiffyGeek
(11,008 posts)In 2018, yeah, I think she was. Had Kelly run, he MAY have been able to win then, but he didn't run, so... Just because Arizona went blue in 2020 doesn't mean that any ol' Democrat could win statewide.
MineralMan
(146,286 posts)My advice to the DCCC: Keep supporting Democrats who can win!
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)if they'd follow Howard Dean's 50-state strategy and support Democrats nationwide, in every district including progressives.
That worked so well it gave us Obama AND an unexpected 60-Dem Senate AND a large House majority. How are things now, doing it the DCCC way?
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,008 posts)It wasn't running progressives in districts they couldn't win. It was running moderate dems in districts they could win.
MineralMan
(146,286 posts)However, sometimes that means supporting a more conservative Democrat in a state where a progressive would have no chance of winning. The head count does matter. It matters a great deal.
If Manchin or Sinema, for example, had not won in their states, Mitch McConnell would still be Majority Leader, and we all remember how marvelous that was.
Supporting candidates who are sure to lose elections is not a good idea. It never has been. Support a progressive in West Virginia or Arizona and you get a Republican in office. Guaranteed. There are other states and districts where that is also true.
Finding and supporting candidates who have a better than 50% chance of winning an election is always the best practice. We should do more of that, looking closely at the politics in every state and district to see what the best options are. That's the only "50 State Strategy" that can work.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)and I don't really see anyone disputing that. But that is often used as an excuse to promote candidates who are barely not-republican over good liberals. Including places where the liberal would indeed have a good chance to win.
It also undermines the simple fact that progressive policy is very popular when the public is polled on individual issues. Rather than run someone who is republicon-lite, because "that' all who can win", I'd like to see those groups put the same effort into informing people about policy.
And that's another reason I'd like to see candidates run in every district, including those so gerrymandered that no democrat at all can win. But they can still get policy out there and some people will see what the republicons are keeping them from having.
MineralMan
(146,286 posts)If there are states and districts where a Democrat is almost sure to lose, some Democrat can still file and appear on the ballot. Oddly, that often doesn't happen. It's easy to say someone should be running in those states and districts. It's somewhat more daunting, though, for an actual person to run in those districts, where they know they will lose.
There are many things I'd like to see happen, many of which will not happen. A progressive will never win in West Virginia. No matter how much you wish that were not the case, it is the case. There are many other states and districts where I could make the same statement.
It's easy to demand things. It's much more difficult to make such things actually happen. Such is life.
onecaliberal
(32,826 posts)bill and infrastructure done because they are obstructing.
JanMichael
(24,885 posts)Didn't want Jeffrey's or anybody else running against a weak Republican senator.
Too bad he couldn't keep his pants zipped.
SergeStorms
(19,195 posts)to defeat republicans and their voter suppression laws and their gerrymandered voting districts.
Our Democratic "leaders" seem to be relying on lots of money to combat the GQP's stranglehold on voting. They seem to be doing little else to combat it, as far as I can see. 👀
TheRickles
(2,057 posts)R's doing well in fundraising for Congressional races (from elsewhere on DU): https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142813011|
bigtree
(85,987 posts)TheRickles
(2,057 posts)Bev54
(10,047 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Great up best news. Thanks.
BlueCheeseAgain
(1,654 posts)bigtree
(85,987 posts)...fyi, it's right there in the post.
BlueCheeseAgain
(1,654 posts)I responded in the wrong place.
bigtree
(85,987 posts)...thought that might be it.