\n\nThe Congressional Leadership Fund, the top House GOP super PAC, has seen a strong donor response since Speaker Mike Johnson took the top post.
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A second person, a GOP fundraiser, said that group includes the mega-donor Paul Singer.<\/p>\n
Some of that posture is recognition that the odds are against Senate Democrats, who would have to retain every incumbent and win the presidency in 2024 to keep their majority. Meanwhile, the Senate GOP has plenty of other pickup opportunities outside of red states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada.<\/p>\n
But winning in those places will still take millions of dollars, especially because there are well-funded Democratic incumbents in most of those states. Although the Senate GOP\u2019s campaign arm has worked diligently to recruit candidates who can self-fund, the party will still need to attract national, big-dollar donors who might typically be more tempted to get involved in a presidential race.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my first cycle in the presidential cycle,\u201d said Sen. Rick Scott<\/span> (R-Fla.), who chaired the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 2022 cycle. \u201cYou gotta go convince people that there\u2019s a reason to give you money for what you do every day.\u201d<\/p>\nThe House GOP campaign arm saw fundraising slow somewhat in October as conservative rabble-rousers ousted McCarthy, and the chamber spent three weeks without a leader. It raised just over $5 million, roughly half of what it raised during the off-year October in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n
Republicans\u2019 House majority is only five seats, and they have 18 members who need to get reelected in seats that President Joe Biden won in 2020. House members are fleeing for the exits after gridlock, infighting and outright animosity gripped the chamber during its 10-week legislative marathon this fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there\u2019s anything that\u2019s going against the House\u2019s ability to raise money, it\u2019s the utter chaos that people have seen play out over the last two months,\u201d said one GOP operative who works on Senate races and was granted anonymity to speak candidly. \u201cThe chaos reduces the confidence in their ability to hold on to the majority, and the majority is so tight to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n
In meetings with prospective donors, House GOP operatives stress that their chamber has outperformed expectations in 2020 and picked up seats in both the 2020 and 2022 when Senate Republicans did not. Their message, according to a person familiar with the fundraising strategy, is: Don\u2019t count us out.<\/p>\n
And the Congressional Leadership Fund, the top House GOP super PAC, has seen a strong donor response since Speaker Mike Johnson<\/span> took the top post, raising $16 million in the first 10 days. That group is the largest outside spending in House races and will be determinative in key contests this fall.<\/p>\n\u201cWe proved to be a smart investment the last two cycles, and I\u2019m confident we\u2019ll continue to be seen that way in 2024,\u201d said Dan Conston, president of the Congressional Leadership Fund. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen a great response from donors as they\u2019ve gotten to know Speaker Johnson, and it\u2019s obvious our fundamentals have not changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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