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Democrats break fundraising records after Ginsburg’s death

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The most prolific online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates and causes said Sunday morning that donors had contributed more than $91 million in the 28 hours after the Supreme Court announced that Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.

ActBlue said Ginsburg’s death had led to an unprecedented surge of donations to progressive groups. Donors gave $6.3 million in just one hour late Friday and $70.6 million on Saturday, the platform said, both records for their respective time periods.

The previous daily record was nearly $42 million. The previous hourly record was a little more than $4 million. Continue reading.

What We Can Take Away from Election Night

Yes, Democrats had a great night:

    • At least 29 House seats flipped.
    • 7 governor seats flipped.
    • 6 legislative chambers flipped, and 7 this cycle.
    • 4 Republican super-majorities in state legislatures broken
    • 3 state Supreme Court seats flipped
    • 1 Senate seat flipped

Oh, and we flipped more than 330 (!) state legislative seats this cycle.

DEMOCRATS EXPANDED THE MAP: The Democratic Party is a 50-state party again. Democrats are organizing everywhere, and we organized everywhere early.  We’ll continue to expand the map in 2019 and 2020.

  • We flipped House seats from upstate New York to Texas to Oklahoma.
  • We took back governors’ mansions from Maine to Kansas to New Mexico.
  • We flipped state legislative chambers from New Hampshire to Colorado.

Continue reading “What We Can Take Away from Election Night”

8 weeks out: Dems see narrow path to Senate majority

Eight weeks out from the midterm elections, both Republicans and Democrats find themselves with a path to a Senate majority.

For Democrats, it is a surprising development given this year’s difficult political map: The party is defending nearly two-dozen seats, including 10 seats in states won by President Trump in 2016.

Yet if the party can sweep every race considered a toss-up, it would end up with a 52-48 majority in the next Congress — even while losing Texas, where Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) is giving GOP Sen. Ted Cruz a stronger-than-expected challenge.

View the complete article by Lisa Hagen and Max Greenwood on the Hill website (posted 9/11/18).

Democrats Leave Few Seats Unchallenged in Quest for House Control

The following article by Rachel Shorey and Lilia Chang was posted on the New York Times website December 24, 2017:

A voter last year at a polling location in the county courthouse building in Marion, Ark. Democrats are putting forward candidates even in states like Arkansas where Republicans remain heavy favorites. Credit Andrea Morales/Getty Images

WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a veteran Republican, was re-elected to his affluent Dallas-area House seat in 2016 with 71 percent of the vote, the remaining 29 percent split between the Libertarian and Green Party candidates.

Hillary Clinton won the district by three percentage points, but no Democratic candidate even showed up to ride her coattails.

Federal Election Commission filings show that if a wave crashes on the Republican House majority in November, as many have predicted, Democratic surfers will be on their boards to catch it. Nearly a year out from the election, Democratic candidates have filed in all but 20 House districts held by Republicans. By comparison, Democrats in 80 districts do not have a Republican opponent for their seat. Continue reading “Democrats Leave Few Seats Unchallenged in Quest for House Control”

Democratic Recruits Pounce on GOP Budget Vote

The following article by Simone Pathé was posted on the Roll Call website October 26, 2017:

Candidates defend state and local tax deduction in competitive districts

Rep. Erik Paulsen (MN03, R), who voted for the GOP budget bill

Democrats looking to pick up House seats in wealthier, suburban districts next fall pounced on Thursday’s narrow adoption of a budget resolution that could clear the way for the elimination of the state and local tax deduction that benefits many of those districts.

Republican leaders heralded the vote as bringing them closer to achieving a tax overhaul — a legislative priority to which many GOP strategists are pinning their party’s midterm fate.

But Democrats are hopeful they can use this vote to flip the script on Republicans, who have so long campaigned on cutting taxes, by messaging the vote as part of an effort to increase taxes. Continue reading “Democratic Recruits Pounce on GOP Budget Vote”