EXCLUSIVE: Two exterior teams aligned with longtime Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell report that they hauled in almost $95 million in fundraising final yr as Republicans goal to win again the chamber’s majority in November’s elections.
Senate Management Fund, which is the highest tremendous PAC backing Senate Republican incumbents and candidates, and the affiliated non-profit public advocacy group One Nation, raised a mixed $94,789,049 final yr, in line with figures shared first with FOX Information on Tuesday.
Final yr’s haul is roughly $400,000 greater than One Nation and Senate Management raised in complete in 2021 and the 2 teams say their mixed 2023 fundraising is a report for an off-election yr.
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Two exterior teams aligned with longtime Senate GOP chief Mitch McConnell report elevating over $95 million final yr. (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
“There continues to be widespread enthusiasm for our mission to retake the Senate majority. Senate Republicans’ emphasis on candidate quality and raising the resources to compete with well-funded Democrats will pay off in November,” Senate Management Fund President and CEO Steven Legislation highlighted in an announcement.
Legislation additionally predicted that “Senate Democrats’ days in the majority are numbered.”
One Nation ended 2023 with almost $61 million money readily available and the Senate Management Fund had over $35 million in its coffers on the finish of final yr.
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Democrats hold a slim 51-49 majority within the chamber, which incorporates three impartial senators who caucus with the Democratic convention.
Meaning Republicans want a internet acquire of both one or two seats to win again the bulk – relying on which celebration controls the White Home after this yr’s presidential election.
The maths and the map favor the GOP in 2024. Democrats are defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs. Three of these seats are in crimson states that former President Trump carried in 2020 – West Virginia, Montana and Ohio.
Democrats are defending an open seat in West Virginia after Sen. Joe Manchin introduced late final yr that he would not search re-election.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introduced final November that he wouldn’t search re-election in 2024 and has teased a possible third-party run for the presidency. (AP Photograph/Charles Krupa)
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5 different blue-held seats are in key swing states narrowly carried by President Biden in 2020 – Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Texas and Florida, the place incumbent Sens. Ted Cruz and Rick Scott are searching for re-election, seem like the one probably aggressive GOP-held seats up for grabs this November.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is considered one of two GOP senators searching for re-election in 2024 that may very well be concerned in a probably aggressive race for the seat. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)
Senate Management Fund and the aligned American Crossroads this week reserved almost $50 million to run advertisements this autumn in Montana. It is the primary main advert reservation this cycle by the 2 teams.
