{"id":879053,"date":"2021-10-14T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=879053"},"modified":"2021-10-14T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:14:11","slug":"house-democrats-campaign-arm-posts-record-fundraising-as-they-defend-narrow-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-campaign-arm-posts-record-fundraising-as-they-defend-narrow-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats\u2019 Campaign Arm Posts Record Fundraising As They Defend Narrow Majority"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fhouse-democrats-campaign-arm-posts-record-fundraising-as-they-defend-narrow-majority%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=879053&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"48.853723404255\">\n<p>House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm announced Thursday that it raised almost $14.5 million in September and $35.8 million in 2021\u2019s third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dccc.org\/dccc-again-breaks-fundraising-records-posting-best-ever-off-year-september-and-third-quarter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>&nbsp;its total fundraising surpassed&nbsp;records for an off-year. It added that it had almost $63 million cash-on-hand as Democrats seek to hold onto their 220-212 House majority come next November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stakes are high and we believe voters will reject (Republicans\u2019) dangerous vision for America, which is about pushing junk science while Americans die despite access to life-saving vaccines, openly attacking our elections, and allowing women\u2019s rights to be rolled away,\u201d&nbsp;said New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the DCCC chair.&nbsp;\u201cHouse Democrats and Speaker Pelosi have stood firm in our fight building a more prosperous and inclusive nation and American voters see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7301708\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7301708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney outside the Capitol in September. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The DCCC\u2019s totals were higher than those of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcc.org\/2021\/10\/14\/nrcc-continues-to-shatter-fundraising-records-raises-over-105-million-through-september\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> raising $12.2 in September and $25.8 million in the third quarter. The NRCC, however, has slightly more cash-on-hand, sitting on $65 million.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/14\/republicans-raise-over-12-million-september-clear-100-million-mark-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: House Republicans Campaign Arm Posts Record Fundraising Total, Has Raised Over $100M In 2021)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite House Democrats\u2019 fundraising prowess, they face a potentially difficult election cycle. President Joe Biden\u2019s approval rating has <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-approval-rating\/?ex_cid=rrpromo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped<\/a> into the mid-40s over the past month, though several recent polls have shown that it may be rising again. Historically,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/06\/democrats-flip-the-house-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the party out of power<\/a>&nbsp;does well in the other party\u2019s president\u2019s first midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Several top Democrats have announced their retirements, including House Budget Committee Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/12\/john-yarmouth-retire-before-2022-election\/\">John Yarmuth<\/a> of Kentucky, Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/10\/ron-kind-retirement-wisconsin-district-trump-won-twice\/\">Ron Kind<\/a>, who won twice even as his Wisconsin district voted for former President Donald Trump and Illinois Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/30\/democrat-cheri-bustos-will-retire-congress-illinois\/\">Cheri Bustos<\/a>, the DCCC\u2019s former chair.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm announced Thursday that it raised almost $14.5 million in September and $35.8 million in 2021\u2019s third quarter.The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)\u00a0said\u00a0its total fundraising &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879053","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}