Dems pour record cash into battleground state parties
Source: Politico
Once ignored, underfunded and often written off, Democratic state party organizations are harvesting record-setting cash heading into the 2020 election, reasserting their roles inside the Democratic infrastructure after suffering for years in competition with super PACs and campaigns.
Across 15 possible battleground states, nearly every Democratic state party group is hitting higher quarterly fundraising totals or holding more cash on hand in their federal accounts than they did at this point during the 2016 presidential campaign, and a majority of them did both, according to a POLITICO analysis of Federal Election Commission filings and in interviews with party officials. Many of these state parties responsible for field operations and coordinating a ticket-wide campaign are seeing three, four or five times the amount of cash they did before.
Those surges are happening in traditional swing states like Pennsylvania and Florida as well as emerging targets for Democrats like Texas and Arizona. The Arizona Democratic Party raised $4.6 million in the second quarter, a more than 300 percent increase over its haul at this point in 2016, while Texas is sitting on five times more cash than it had at this point in 2016. North Carolina banked more than doubled its 2016 totals, from $2.5 million to just under $6 million, and racked up its strong online fundraising numbers in June since late 2018. Wisconsin, a stand out among the states, brought in a record-breaking $10 million last quarter.
The influx of money is giving an organizing boost to Joe Biden, Senate Democrats and other candidates heading into November 2020. Presidential candidates typically spend the final months of an election anxiously shoveling money toward state parties to fund get-out-the-vote operations and other critical infrastructure, but Democrats are running ahead of schedule this year.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/dems-pour-record-cash-into-battleground-state-parties-389082
blm
(113,052 posts)We really have to turn the state legislature.
NNadir
(33,515 posts)...our country is another thing.
Watching President Obama's eloquence at John Lewis's funeral today, I wondered how we could end up with a blubbering idiot in the White House after a great man like Obama.
Trump is killing this country, strangling it, letting it die in a sea of vile mucous.
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)Because I've been giving record amounts of cash (at least for me) to get every Democrat in the country elected. Fight for every state, every vote. Don't cede a single vote to Donald "The Fascist" Trump. Not one!
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I guess it took a deadly pandemic to wake people up to the fact that the GOP doesn't give a rat's raw ass about you and me.
oasis
(49,381 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)cleanse our country of the GOP virus. Borrowing from Winston Churchill with some paraphrasing, "We will fight the GOP in Texas, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Arizona, Florida, we will fight them with every vote we can muster and every dollar we can raise"