Dems with the Big Mo

[bigtree]

...money, that is.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen 1h
NEW: The DCCC outraised the NRCC in Q3, with Democrats bringing in $35.8 million compared to Republicans’ $25.8 million. The haul is an off-election year record.

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Thursday, October 14, 2021
DCCC Raises Record-Breaking $35.8 Million In Q3, Bests NRCC’s Third Quarter By More Than $10 million

Thanks to fired-up Democratic donors, the DCCC will once again report a record-breaking fundraising haul. DCCC had it’s best off-year September, raising nearly $14.5 million. Powered by months of early fundraising success, the DCCC recorded its best off-year third quarter in committee history, with nearly $35.8 million raised. The DCCC’s totals beat the NRCC’s weaker September and third quarter fundraising.

“We’re winning on fundraising because our supporters know just how dangerous it would be for the country if Republicans were in charge. The stakes are high and we believe voters will reject their dangerous vision for America, which is about pushing junk science while Americans die despite access to life-saving vaccines, openly attacking our elections, and allowing women’s rights to be rolled away,” said DCCC Chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. “House Democrats and Speaker Pelosi have stood firm in our fight building a more prosperous and inclusive nation and American voters see that.”

At the end of the third quarter, the DCCC heads into the last quarter of the off-year debt free with nearly $63 million cash on hand, $26 million more than the DCCC held at this point in 2019.

https://dccc.org/dccc-again-breaks-fundraising-records-posting-best-ever-off-year-september-and-third-quarter/

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Nice haul.

Now if only they'd support Dems other than "conservadems".

We have the DCCC to thank for Kirsten Sinema. That hasn't worked out too well.

I'd like to see the DCCC and other such groups support the progressives that have been working their asses off on Biden's agenda. Instead of the "moderate" conservadems who are doing the dirtywork of republicons.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. We have the DCCC to thank for defeating Martha McSally

Fixed it for you.

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. Sinema was really the only D who could defeat McSally?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

7. Considering she barely won in a blue tsunami

In 2018, yeah, I think she was. Had Kelly run, he MAY have been able to win then, but he didn't run, so... Just because Arizona went blue in 2020 doesn't mean that any ol' Democrat could win statewide.

[MineralMan]

4. They do. They support candidates who can win in their districts.

My advice to the DCCC: Keep supporting Democrats who can win!

[FoxNewsSucks]

6. We'd all be better off

if they'd follow Howard Dean's 50-state strategy and support Democrats nationwide, in every district including progressives.

That worked so well it gave us Obama AND an unexpected 60-Dem Senate AND a large House majority. How are things now, doing it the DCCC way?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

9. The 50-state strategy is how Democrats like Sinema won!

It wasn't running progressives in districts they couldn't win. It was running moderate dems in districts they could win.

[MineralMan]

10. See, the thing is that they're doing that already.

However, sometimes that means supporting a more conservative Democrat in a state where a progressive would have no chance of winning. The head count does matter. It matters a great deal.

If Manchin or Sinema, for example, had not won in their states, Mitch McConnell would still be Majority Leader, and we all remember how marvelous that was.

Supporting candidates who are sure to lose elections is not a good idea. It never has been. Support a progressive in West Virginia or Arizona and you get a Republican in office. Guaranteed. There are other states and districts where that is also true.

Finding and supporting candidates who have a better than 50% chance of winning an election is always the best practice. We should do more of that, looking closely at the politics in every state and district to see what the best options are. That's the only "50 State Strategy" that can work.

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. Those are all valid points

and I don't really see anyone disputing that. But that is often used as an excuse to promote candidates who are barely not-republican over good liberals. Including places where the liberal would indeed have a good chance to win.

It also undermines the simple fact that progressive policy is very popular when the public is polled on individual issues. Rather than run someone who is republicon-lite, because "that' all who can win", I'd like to see those groups put the same effort into informing people about policy.

And that's another reason I'd like to see candidates run in every district, including those so gerrymandered that no democrat at all can win. But they can still get policy out there and some people will see what the republicons are keeping them from having.

[MineralMan]

13. Well, anyone can file as a candidate, you know.

If there are states and districts where a Democrat is almost sure to lose, some Democrat can still file and appear on the ballot. Oddly, that often doesn't happen. It's easy to say someone should be running in those states and districts. It's somewhat more daunting, though, for an actual person to run in those districts, where they know they will lose.

There are many things I'd like to see happen, many of which will not happen. A progressive will never win in West Virginia. No matter how much you wish that were not the case, it is the case. There are many other states and districts where I could make the same statement.

It's easy to demand things. It's much more difficult to make such things actually happen. Such is life.

[onecaliberal]

16. It is also one of the reasons we have a very slim majority but are unable to get the voter rights

bill and infrastructure done because they are obstructing.

[JanMichael]

8. The DCCC also pushed Cal Cunningham in NC.

Didn't want Jeffrey's or anybody else running against a weak Republican senator.

Too bad he couldn't keep his pants zipped.

[SergeStorms]

11. If money was only enough....

to defeat republicans and their voter suppression laws and their gerrymandered voting districts.

Our Democratic "leaders" seem to be relying on lots of money to combat the GQP's stranglehold on voting. They seem to be doing little else to combat it, as far as I can see. 👀

[TheRickles]

14. But then there's this:

R's doing well in fundraising for Congressional races (from elsewhere on DU): https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142813011|

[bigtree]

17. self deleted shortly after noon

[TheRickles]

21. I hadn't noticed that. Thanks. Was it total BS, then?

[Bev54]

15. Oh but according to MSM there is no enthusiasm in the dems right now

[LakeArenal]

18. Great news. It is sure to stir up the doom and gloomers around here.

Great up best news. Thanks.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

19. FYI, the DCCC is for House races. The DSCC is for Senate races. nt.

[bigtree]

20. I don't see where I mistook that

...fyi, it's right there in the post.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

22. Sorry, I meant it for the folks talking about Senate candidates higher up.

I responded in the wrong place.

[bigtree]

23. no worries

...thought that might be it.