Trump serves as rocket fuel for Democratic fundraising

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Democrats are on a torrid fundraising pace in the first months of the Donald Trump era, powered by enraged small donors who are plowing millions of dollars worth of online contributions into campaign and committee treasuries.

A POLITICO analysis of new federal disclosures suggests many Democratic Senate incumbents — particularly those who have been most outspoken in their resistance to Trump — are on a trajectory to raise more money online than in any previous nonelection year. That could help level the fundraising playing field at a time when Republicans are poised to reap the financial rewards of holding all the levers of power in Washington.

While comprehensive campaign finance data for both parties in the first quarter of 2017 won’t be released until next month, February figures reported to the Federal Election Commission by ActBlue, the left-leaning online fundraising platform, suggest members of Congress as well as many progressive groups are harnessing the energy of town halls and marches and translating it into a surge of online fundraising well in advance of the 2018 election season.

Jon Ossoff, the Democratic candidate for an open House seat in Georgia, raised nearly $2.1 million online last month for his April special election. That’s more than Tom Price, the Republican who held the seat until his appointment as secretary of Health and Human Services, spent over the course of his entire 2016 campaign.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-democrats-fundraising-236619

[angrychair]

1. Our only hope

Is this continues into next year and hopefully ramps up even more...retaking Congress, House and Senate, should be our only objective.

#thedifferenceisreal

[FakeNoose]

2. It could be our last chance

We have to make it count!

[NewJeffCT]

3. love that GIF

made me smile at work

[NewJeffCT]

4. Democrats are notoriously disorganized

can we keep up the momentum through this November (NJ and VA Governorships) and next year? We need to get back the House next year.

[IronLionZion]

5. I hope this momentum wins us the house and Senate

and encourages lots of new Democrats to run for office everywhere. Quite a few repubs ran unopposed in their solid red districts. Devin Nunes for instance. But gerrymandering has made some districts more competitive if we have enough momentum.