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Democrats\u2019 top Senate-focused super PAC will report raising $354 million through Oct. 14 \u2014 including roughly $88 million in the first two weeks of the month\u2014 as Democrats race to seize control of the upper chamber in the election\u2019s closing weeks.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority PAC shared their fundraising totals, which are higher than any previous cycle, with Blue Light News ahead of a Federal Election Commission deadline later Thursday. The super PAC had $32.7 million in the bank as of Oct. 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is already the strongest cycle in Senate Majority PAC\u2019s history, and it\u2019s arriving exactly when it counts,\u201d SMP spokesperson Lauren French said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re on the air across the battleground through Election Day, and every dollar is going toward beating price-gouging Republicans and winning back the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s more than the $306 million SMP raised in the 2024 campaign cycle, according to FEC filings<\/a>, its previous high.<\/p>\n

SMP is still being outraised by the Senate Leadership Fund, the GOP\u2019s top Senate super PAC, in large part thanks to billionaire Elon Musk and other Republican megadonors. Musk gave $158 million to SLF in the third quarter<\/a>, according to its most recent FEC report, and the super PAC in turn sent that money to Texas\u2019 Senate race in order to boost the scandal-plagued GOP nominee Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n

As of Sept. 30, SLF had raised more than $423 million for the cycle.<\/p>\n

Democrats have been able to offset much of Republicans\u2019 super PAC cash advantage<\/a> on the airwaves because of stronger candidate fundraising.<\/p>\n

But Republicans still have the advantage of a favorable map \u2014 and more outside money \u2014 as they hope to maintain control of at least one chamber of Congress next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrats\u2019 top Senate-focused super PAC will report raising $354 million through Oct. 14 \u2014 including roughly $88 million in the first two weeks of the month\u2014 as Democrats race to seize control of the upper chamber in the election\u2019s closing weeks. Senate Majority PAC shared their fundraising totals, which are higher than any previous cycle, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}