{"id":1979588,"date":"2023-07-21T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-hakeem-jeffries-raise-7-million-more-than-kevin-mccarthy\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:31:10","slug":"fact-check-did-hakeem-jeffries-raise-7-million-more-than-kevin-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-hakeem-jeffries-raise-7-million-more-than-kevin-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Hakeem Jeffries Outfundraise Kevin McCarthy by $7 Million?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-hakeem-jeffries-raise-7-million-more-than-kevin-mccarthy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Claim:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>House Minority Leader\u200d Hakeem\u2064 Jeffries (D., N.Y.) &#8220;single-handedly&#8221;\u2062 outraised House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.)\u200c in April, \u2063May, and June, raking in $29 million to McCarthy&#8217;s $22 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Who said it:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jeffries press \u200badviser\u200d Justin Chermol<\/strong> in\u2064 a Monday\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justin_chermol\/status\/1680900542615150592\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Why it\u2063 matters:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>McCarthy and Jeffries are in the early stages of a fight for control of the House\u200d in 2024, and winning the fundraising battle is a \u200ccrucial part of that fight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Context:<\/h3>\n<p>Jeffries\u200b used his purported\u2062 second-quarter fundraising lead on McCarthy\u200c to argue that\u200c he will have &#8220;the\u200c resources necessary\u2064 to retake\u200b the majority next year,&#8221; rhetoric that media outlets such as CNN echoed. Jeffries\u2019s ability to outraise McCarthy, CNN wrote in a Wednesday \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/19\/politics\/hakeem-jeffries-fundraising-numbers\/index.html\">piece<\/a>, is &#8220;impressive \u2026 given it\u2019s\u200b his first year serving as Democratic leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Federal fundraising \u2063disclosures, however, suggest Jeffries raised \u2062far less than \u2064the $29 million figure his team touted.\u200b Campaign committees associated with Jeffries reported\u200d raising \u200dslightly\u200b more than $6 million in the second quarter, compared with the roughly $22 \u2064million McCarthy and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-shreds-the-los-angeles-times-over-hit-piece-attacking-him-for-attending-sons-wedding-with-family\/\" title=\"Kevin McCarthy Shreds The Los Angeles Times Over Hit Piece Attacking Him For Attending Son\u2019s Wedding With Family\">campaign committees<\/a> reported raising.<\/p>\n<h3>Analysis:<\/h3>\n<p>The \u200bdiscrepancy \u2063between Jeffries&#8217;s publicly disclosed fundraising haul and his \u200dteam&#8217;s inflated figure stems from fundraising events Jeffries held \u200bwith the Democratic Congressional Campaign\u2064 Committee, Chermol\u2063 told the\u2062 <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. While money raised at those events is \u200bnot attributed to Jeffries in public disclosures, his team includes the money in its internal \u200bcalculation of Jeffries\u2019s total\u2062 fundraising haul.\u200c More than \u2063$20 million of the $29 million Jeffries says he raised in the second\u2062 quarter comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/squad-member-was-guest-of-honor-at-fundraiser-hosted-by-pro-erdogan-group\/\" title=\"Squad Member Was Guest of Honor at Fundraiser Hosted By Pro-Erdogan Group\">committee events<\/a> he attended,\u2063 according to Chermol.<\/p>\n<p>For McCarthy\u2019s team, \u2062Jeffries\u2019s decision to include internal and publicly unverifiable figures in his fundraising haul is questionable. If\u200d McCarthy \u2062was to adopt\u2063 Jeffries\u2019s definition, his \u200dteam told \u200bthe <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, his total\u2063 haul would include an additional $14.7 million he raised for his House colleagues through National Republican Congressional Committee events and other external fundraising efforts he \u2064spearheaded. That number would bring McCarthy\u2019s total \u2062fundraising haul to roughly $36\u2064 million\u2014$7 million more than what Jeffries says he raised. As\u2063 a \u200dresult, McCarthy spokesman Michael \u200cAbboud accused Jeffries of &#8220;artificially \u2063inflating resources to \u2064create good headlines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Team Jeffries\u2019s fundraising claims can only \u200bbe\u2063 described as\u2062 desperate,&#8221; Abboud said. &#8220;Simply put, \u2064their\u2063 math doesn\u2019t add up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chermol confirmed \u2064to the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that the vast\u2062 majority of Jeffries\u2019s reported fundraising haul is &#8220;counted internally.&#8221; \u200cCommittee spokesman Viet Shelton nonetheless said McCarthy is &#8220;more concerned \u200dwith getting \u200bcredit&#8221; than helping\u2063 his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is focused on protecting our\u2064 battle-tested \u2063frontline\u200b members, recruiting top-tier candidates, and holding extreme MAGA Republicans accountable for\u200c their inaction,&#8221; Shelton\u200b told the <em>Free\u2062 Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Partisan mudslinging aside, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-hakeem-jeffries-raise-7-million-more-than-kevin-mccarthy\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did Hakeem Jeffries Outfundraise Kevin McCarthy by  Million?\">federal disclosures show campaign committees<\/a> associated with McCarthy raised more in the second quarter than those \u200cassociated \u200cwith Jeffries. While internal calculations that attribute additional funds to Jeffries and \u2064McCarthy cannot\u2062 be verified through public disclosures, applying those calculations equally\u200b suggests McCarthy raised \u2063more money for Republicans \u2063than Jeffries\u2064 did for Democrats.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Verdict:<\/span> <span>We rate this claim 3 Clintons.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) surpassed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) in fundraising for April, May, and June, collecting $29 million compared to McCarthy&#8217;s $22 million. The statement was made by Jeffries&#8217; press adviser Justin Chermol in a tweet on Monday. This financial competition between McCarthy and Jeffries holds significance as they enter the initial phase of a conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":1979589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}