Republican candidates are getting crushed in fundraising in some of the most important midterm contests, Punchbowl News reported on Friday.
"A new trove of campaign-finance reports released this week showed a concerning reality for the GOP: Democratic candidates raked in gargantuan amounts of money last quarter in key battleground districts," reporter Jake Sherman shared on X.
He gave the hat-tip to colleague Ally Mutnick who revealed the findings.
Federal Election Commission documents show at least 25 GOP incumbents and Republican-turned-independent Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA) got beaten in fundraising by a Democratic challenger, according to Punchbowl.
Republicans face one of their narrowest House majorities on record, as well as the historical trend that the party in charge nearly always loses seats in midterm elections.
And President Donald Trump is scrambling to shore up Republican odds in the election, demanding a number of GOP-controlled states redraw their district maps to give themselves extra seats, and last night delivering a primetime speech that sought to lay the groundwork for greater federal control over elections.
The GOP may get a boost in coming weeks and months, thanks to a Supreme Court decision that gives greater fundraising power to the party committees.
Sherman called Mutnick's findings a "stunning story."
