Category Archives: campaigns
“With $30 Million, Obscure Democratic Group Floods the Zone in House Races”
NYT:
A structure unknown even to some of those involved, Floridians for a Fair Shake and 13 other groups around the country are funded and coordinated out of a single office in Washington, with the goal of battering Republicans for… Continue reading
“New Issue One report highlights how Washington power players use leadership PAC contributions to buy access and influence in the 115th Congress”
Release via email:
More than 500 leadership PACs operated by sitting members of Congress raised over $150 million so far this election cycle. Of this sum, more than 60 percent came from political action committees (PACs) connected to companies, trade… Continue reading
“Democratic super PACs and other outside groups are poised to outspend their Republican counterparts by a wide margin, erasing an advantage Republicans planned on having.”
NYT:
For the final two weeks of the election, Democratic campaigns and outside groups are on track to substantially outspend Republicans, strategists on both sides say. Democrats are set to spend $143 million on television advertising in House races, compared… Continue reading
Ken Doyle: “Shadow Parties’ Dominate Campaign Spending in Midterms”
Ken Doyle for Bloomberg (I miss his daily Money & Politics report in my inbox):
“Shadow parties,” outside groups allied with Democratic and Republican leaders, are eclipsing traditional political parties, according to two new studies of campaign spending in the… Continue reading
“Texts to voters purportedly from Trump roil Kansas election”
AP:
Kansas election officials are reviewing text messages claiming to be from President Donald Trump and telling residents that their early votes hadn’t been recorded, as Democratic leaders were quick Thursday to worry that they were part of efforts to… Continue reading
“NC candidate and campaign manager accused of trying to intimidate voters”
News & Observer:
A voter said Rep. Chris Malone asked her whether she was preparing to vote twice while she waited at an early-voting site this week, in an attempt to intimidate her.
Another woman said she overheard a man… Continue reading
“How ActBlue is trying to turn small donations into a blue wave”
CPI:
ActBlue, a nonprofit whose online fundraising tools have been used to varying degrees by nearly every Democrat running for Congress, says it has raised more than $2.9 billion for Democrats and progressive organizations since its founding in 2004. September… Continue reading
“Independent Spending Continues Record Pace; Party Groups Lead The Way”
Campaign Finance Institute:
Independent expenditures (IEs) reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for general election House and Senate contests have continued on a record pace, totaling $695 million through October 21st. This is $103 million more than on the… Continue reading
“Republicans Hold Cash Edge Heading Into Final Stretch of the Midterms”
NYT:
The most recent round of campaign finance disclosures, filed Saturday, showed that Republican national party committees, candidates in key House and Senate races and their top unlimited-money outside groups, or “super PACs,” had $337 million on hand as of… Continue reading
“Justice Dept. charges Russian woman with interference in Midterm elections”
WaPo:
The Justice Department on Friday charged a Russian woman for her role in a conspiracy to interfere with the 2018 U.S. election, marking the first criminal case prosecutors have brought against a foreign national for meddling in the upcoming… Continue reading
“Election Update: Democrats’ Unprecedented Fundraising Edge Is Scary For Republicans … And Our Model”
Nate Silver:
The fundraising numbers are so good for Democrats — and so bad for Republicans — that it’s a little bit hard to know quite what to make of them. From a modelling standpoint, we’re extrapolating from years in… Continue reading
“Fake intern who recorded McCaskill campaign had access to voter info, campaign says”
KC Star:
A conservative activist with Project Veritas posed as an intern with U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s campaign and had access to voter information, according to a stack of documents McCaskill’s lawyer delivered to Attorney General Josh Hawley’s office Friday.… Continue reading
“Cost of 2018 election to surpass $5 billion, CRP projects”
Open Secrets:
This year’s midterm election cycle is slated to become the first and only member of the $5 billion club.
The Center for Responsive Politics projects that more than $5 billion will be spent during the 2018 election, making… Continue reading