Posted on 10/18/2018 11:33:00 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
California Democrat candidates raised $21.6 million in a determined effort to pick-up seven highly contested GOP-held U.S House seats, versus $4.2 million raise by the Republicans.
The nonpartisan Center for Responsible Politics estimates that 2018 will be the most expensive midterm Congressional elections, with a record $5.2 billion in spending, due to an “astonishing spike in campaign donations.”
Democratic House candidates raised over $1.3 billion from individuals, compared to just $1 billion for Republicans. But Democrats spent $1 billion, compared to just $720 million spent by Republican House candidates.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Democrat first-time candidates challenging to turn seven vulnerable Republican-held California House seats, and potentially flipping control of the U.S. House, have ridden a financial “blue wave” to raise over five times what Republicans raised during the third quarter of 2018.
The biggest Democrat advantage was in California’s 50th congressional district, where incumbent Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter only raised $132,531 after being indicted in August for alleged personal use of campaign funds. The 29-year-old Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar raised $1.4 million, despite being identified by Israel’s Haaretz as the grandson of the architects of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics massacre.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, only raised $3,154,899, compared to $4,417,483 by Democrat Fresno Deputy District Attorney Andrew Janz.
Los Angeles Times also reported that the average cash reserve for the seven Republican House candidates was about $652,000 at the end of the third quarter of 2018, versus an average of $1.2 million for their Democrat opponents.
But not everything is doom-and-gloom for the targeted Republican House seats...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
BINGO.
Orange County Republicans Pound Anti-Tax Message to Stop ‘Blue Wave:
This money. This all came from Soros?
Dems need to Throw Money at it now. That’s all they’ve got.
Didn’t hillary outspend Trump by a bazillion dollars or something...and still lost?
Nobody profits from these dollars but the advertising outlets.
So both parties each have about 300 million remaining?
Let the latino communists waste their money.
re: “California Democrats Outraise Republicans by 5x”
Gee, I thought the Democrat party was the party of the “little guy” while the Republicans were those mean, greedy, “rich” people and huge corporations.
Seems to be just the opposite.
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There are Republicans here???
There’s a reason why Trump NEVER campaiganed in mexifornia. It’s a lost cause and these idiots place their own money on the same leftard poluticians who will always vote Dem LOL
These filthy Rat professors I’m sure also advocate spitting and/or worse into customers’ food.
Sickening, truly sickening.
The Valley north of the San Fernando Valley has an incumbent Republican member of Congress and a proudly bisexual, blond millennial woman challenging him. She is pretty much of an airhead, but has over 3 million in her campaign coffers. He has around $500,000 (and is Pete Knight’s son).I think the race is tight, even though she has no relevant experience.....but Bowser from ShaNaNa went out there for a campaign appearance for her. The Dems money has been appearing from nowhere.....just like O’Rourke’s 38 million. I sure hope someone is looking into campaign finance fraud on these unknowns, who have boatloads of ‘walking around money’.
Democrats - party of the rich.
Of course not, there is more than 1 rich POS who funds the democraps.
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