For the fourth straight month, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee outraised its GOP counterpart, raising more than $10 million for its candidates in July, two million more than the Republican National Senatorial Committee, NBC News reports.
While some Republican candidates enjoy the largesse of billionaires like Peter Thiel, who has dumped more than $15 million into the coffers of Arizona GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters, Republican candidates are finding it harder to get donations from small-dollar donors in the wake of the Supreme Court revocation of reproduction rights by overturning Roe v. Wade.
The Democrats’ total for July was down slightly from the $12 million it raised in June, the month the court released its decision in the Roe case. Democrats have $54.1 million cash on hand versus just $23 million for Republicans with less than three months to the election.
The RNSC has cut spending on advertising in key states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week that the prospects of Republicans gaining the majority in the Senate in the midterms is low given the poor quality of candidates nominated by Republicans.
The cash shortage has forced the GOP to pick and choose candidates to support who have a better chance of winning. The RNSC has dumped $28 million into the Ohio Senate race in an effort to boost its nominee, political dilletente J.D. Vance, a pseudo-memoirist with no political experience, who has been consistently outraised by Democratic opponent Tim Ryan. The Vance campaign also got a $10 million boost from Thiel, who has become the puppetmaster pulling the financial strings of the fiscally irresponsible Republican Party.