We're getting quarterly filings today on the FEC website. Here are some Great Slate numbers: IA-4 J.D. Scholten: raised $620k, $1.05 million on hand (!) Randy Feenstra: raised $404K , $328K on hand
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CO-3 Diane Mitsch Bush: raised $324K, $202K on hand Lauren Boebert: raised $88K, $10K on hand This is what we call a good fundraising quarter for everyone!
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What this means in human language is this: three of our house races have over a million bucks in the bank four months from the election, which gives them a lot of strategic latitude. Two of our candidates are up against inexperienced challengers with little fundraising capacity.
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The point of the exercise is that all four of those states have a highly competitive Senate race, and having the House candidate in the most competitive part of their statewide race adequately funded is going to make a difference in winning the Senate races.
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In mid-2017, Cook published ratings for the four Great Slate districts, all of which our candidates are polling even or ahead in this summer: ME-02: Likely Republican (we flipped it in November 18) Alaska: Solid Republican CO-03: Solid Republican IA-04: Solid Republican
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Our next challenge is fending off the corporate PAC money that will flood in for the Republicans in these races. Don Young has already received $110K, Randy Feenstra almost $200K in PAC money. So we're going to keep fundraising right back at themhttps://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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Excellent news re Alyse - I’m getting my hopes up on that one. I haven’t been too concerned re Jared despite the tight results last time, but those are legitimately eye-popping numbers.
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