The National Republican Congressional Committee outraised its Democratic counterpart in August, even as Democrats saw a burst of enthusiasm ahead of the midterm elections.
The NRCC raised $15.6 million last month, topping the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s $15.4 million haul. The fundraising prowess by the House GOP campaign arm is a reminder that Republicans are positioned to gain seats in November and are on track to recapture the majority, even if the massive red wave projected at the beginning of the summer fails to materialize.
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“House Republicans have shattered fundraising records this cycle and are in a strong position to take back the House. Nancy Pelosi’s days as speaker are numbered,” NRCC spokesman Mike Berg said in a statement, referring to the California Democrat.
The GOP is just a handful of seats shy of winning the majority, and Republicans have plenty of juicy pickup targets, among them 16 districts where former President Donald Trump beat President Joe Biden in 2020 and 28 districts where Biden won by 10 percentage points or less.
The NRCC entered September financially prepared to capitalize on these opportunities, too: The committee reported $113.2 million in cash on hand as of Sept. 1, giving House Republicans a slight edge over the Democrats. Compare that to the DCCC, which reported a war chest of $110.7 million heading into the homestretch of the fall campaign.
The party in power in the White House typically loses seats in midterm elections. But House Democrats are expressing confidence they can surpass expectations, pointing to special election wins over the summer and voter antipathy to new restrictions on abortion rights that have emerged in red states in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
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“Voters want a Congress that seeks to address the challenges everyday folks are facing, not a MAGA cult that ignores the everyday struggles and is instead fixated on doing Donald Trump’s bidding and further stripping women of their reproductive freedoms,” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), the DCCC’s chairman, said in a statement.
