Posted on 10/14/2022 12:28:25 PM PDT by Signalman
Democrats in a dozen-and-a-half swing House districts are panicking over the hundreds of millions of dollars of outside money pouring into races featuring vulnerable GOP incumbents. And the national Democratic Party can send very little.
National Democratic organizations aren’t airing TV ads in six of the 14 Republican-held districts that went for Biden in 2020. Many of those districts, like the seat held by retiring congresswoman Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, will be sacrificed because the national party just doesn’t have the cash.
“I know with every bone in my body that [Kristen] Engel will win this district if we can get DCCC investing sooner,” Kirkpatrick told Politico. National Republicans have spent over $1.3 million so far on TV there. “I understand the impossible decisions they have to make each cycle but coming in late and undervaluing this race is a huge mistake. This is a seat we keep blue if we go big now.”
House Democrats’ panic has escalated this month as GOP outside groups continued to smash fundraising records. Despite high candidate fundraising, Democrats have been unable to respond with the same volume of money, and the party has struggled to free up the resources to attack potentially endangered Republican incumbents — a crucial part of their strategy, since they need to offset expected losses in more conservative Democratic-held districts.
Democrats currentlyhave just a 5-seat majority and already seem to be abandoning some tough seats that their incumbents currently hold in Arizona, Wisconsin, Texas and Michigan.
“The No. 1 factor here is money,” said Tim Persico, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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Yeah it’s not the nation killing actions moving the polls it’s the money.
Isn’t it a shame that the most lightly candidate to get elected is the one the spends the most money on advertising?
What does that say about our nation?
If true, it suggests a red wave larger than predicted. If the Demorat party is pulling funding from incumbent Dems who are in trouble, all I can say is be here on FR on November 8 or be square. I am working as an election clerk but only until 12:30 pm.
Maybe those unfunded races are a result of the Rats knowing that it is extremely harder to implement the cheat in individual districts. It is far easier to have ballots manufactured with only the presidential candidate selected.
I feel confident....may start a day earlier on my special Scotch...
I probably start on a single malt Scotch about 8 pm EST.
This seems at odds with the descriptions from a few months ago...but things could have actually changed.
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