Top Republican groups split on how to save the House majority [View all]

[RandySF]

Sharp differences over spending and strategy are cleaving House Republicans as the two main groups charged with saving the party’s embattled majority in the midterm elections go separate ways in key suburban battlegrounds.

Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with senior GOP leaders, canceled advertising in the expensive Denver media market, and never invested in costly D.C., concluding vulnerable Reps. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., and Barbara Comstock, R-Va., couldn’t hold their suburban districts and that the money would be better spent elsewhere.

But the National Republican Congressional Committee, the party’s official House campaign arm, continues to invest millions in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District and Virginia’s 10th, despite being outgunned and outmanned by Democrats there and in several other seats across the country poised to fall to the Democrats.

“There are just some fundamental disagreements over how and where [CLF and NRCC] should be spending,” a Republican operative involved in House races said, requesting anonymity in order to speak candidly about the groups' competing game plans.

Democratic candidates and allied organizations have more resources to invest in House races than their Republican counterparts. Among candidates, the Democrats’ financial advantage was approximately $50 million, while just among the parties’ two campaign arms, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had around $20 million more to spend than the NRCC.


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