Some Democratic donors frustrated with DNC chair Ken Martin amid fundraising woes

AOL ^ | 5/07/26 | HANNAH DEMISSIE, JUHI DOSHI, OREN OPPENHEIM, BENJAMIN SIEGEL

[Libloather]

With six months until the high-stakes midterm elections, the Democratic Party is struggling to raise money and keep up with its GOP counterparts, leading to frustrations among some donors with Democratic National Committee leadership and its chair Ken Martin.

At the end of March, the Republican National Committee outraised the DNC $21.2 million to $11.4 million, according to new reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. The RNC reported having nearly eight times more cash on hand -- $116 million to the DNC’s $13.8 million. In addition, the DNC is a little over $18 million in debt, according to FEC filings.

Democrats, though, are performing better than they did in 2018 at this point in the cycle when the party had raised $7 million and had little more than $9 million cash on hand. The party had just under $6 million in debt at that time, too.

Multiple Democratic bundlers, strategists and donors told ABC News that they are still angry over how funds were allocated during the 2024 presidential election -- and frustrated at Martin's unwillingness to publicly release a DNC audit that examined what went wrong for Democrats in 2024.

After Martin won his campaign to be DNC chair in 2025 following the presidential election, he committed to conducting a review of the 2024 election and making it public. However, Martin has yet to release the full audit, saying instead he's focused on looking forward and has released "lessons" from the audit.

Democratic officials and leaders -- including Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz, who is poised to become the No. 2 Senate Democrat after the midterms -- have urged for the report to be released as they look toward the midterms.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: democrats; dnc; fundraising; martin; ohnoanyway

[Libloather]

I wonder if the rapist Swalwell has anything to do with it.

[SmokingJoe]

Kamala blew $1.5 Billion in just 107 days and still got crushed by Trump, losing popular vote, EV’s and all 7 swing states (and still ended up in debt), so why would any sensible billionaire outside far left crazies like Soros give them big money?

[OttawaFreeper]

More to make the Democrat trolls here unhappy.

[DeplorablePaul]

Not enough is being reported about the Act Blue fundraising scandal where illegal foreign donations were channeled into Dem campaigns. The scam started when Obama decided to not to accept public funding of campaigns. Remember that? Obama got 500 million dollars from the middle east and outspent McCain 10 to 1.

[MrRelevant]

It could be the DNC has no actual platform or cohesive message except for Trump is bad…. Crime is good…. Death is okay

[SauronOfMordor]

We are finding out just how much of DNC’s funding was coming from people in nonprofits and NGOs kicking back government grant money. Money that DOGE busily cancelled.

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo! I came for this comment.

Clamping down on USAID and other graft sources of political money is really kicking the Dems in the teeth.

[philman_36]

However, Martin has yet to release the full audit, saying instead he's focused on looking forward and has released "lessons" from the audit.

The autopsy of the skeleton revealed nothing. /sarcasm

[PilotDave]

Math is hard. If the DMC has 13.8m cash but 18m debt it really sitting at -4.2m. They are basically bankrupt with 5 months until the midterms.

[cableguymn]

Looks like the loss of usaid has put a hurt on them

[Clay Moore]

Corrected title:

Some Democrat donors frustrated with DNC chair Ken Martin amid thieving woes

[Tom Tetroxide]

Who wants to fund a loser with loser ideas?

[bert]

The problem is that although Black Lives Matter, they never contribute anything to their maintenance

Parasites are very expensive