DSCC Out-Raises NRSC For 2nd Straight Month With Record-Breaking March Fundraising

Democratic Senators Dominate Q1 Fundraising

The DSCC raised nearly $9.3 million in March and will report more than $13 million cash on hand –– the best off-year March and off-year grassroots fundraising month in the committee’s history. For the second month in a row, the DSCC outraised the NRSC. 

And across the Senate map, Democratic Senators “dominated the list of top first-quarter fundraisers,” building “big war chests” and posting “higher totals than any incumbent senator two years ago.” Meanwhile, incumbent Republican Senators’ “fundraising was not as aggressive” and vulnerable GOP Senators like Ron Johnson “had among the smallest quarters of any incumbents.”

Axios: Exclusive: Dems’ Senate campaign arm raises $9.3M in March
By Lachlan Markay 
April 20, 2021

• The Democrats’ Senate campaign arm raised nearly $9.3 million in March and will report more than $13 million in the bank when it files its monthly financial report Tuesday, Axios has learned.

• The haul for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee topped its Republican counterpart for the second straight month.

• A DSCC aide said last month was the committee’s best-ever showing in March of an election cycle off-year, and its best-ever off-year month for grassroots fundraising.

• The National Republican Senatorial Committee raised about a million less during March.

• What they’re saying: “The DSCC’s record-breaking fundraising reflects the strength of our grassroots support and is powered by Americans across the country who understand the importance of protecting and expanding Democrats’ Senate majority,” executive director Christie Roberts said in a statement.  

Read more about Democrats’ fundraising dominance across the Senate map: 

Roll Call: “The four Democratic incumbents facing competitive races next year raised a combined $14.2 million in the first fundraising quarter. They reported a combined $19.1 million in their campaign accounts as of March 31.”

Open Secrets: “On the Senate side, Democrats largely dominated the list of top first-quarter fundraisers, continuing a trend from the 2020 election in which Democrats outraised Republicans.”

POLITICO: “The four swing-state Senate Democrats likeliest to face the toughest reelection fights — Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada — each raised more than $2 million, posting higher totals than any incumbent senator two years ago. All four had over $4 million in the bank, a total only two senators had at this point in 2019.”

CNN: “First-year Democrats build big war chests”

POLITICO: “The most vulnerable Democrats in the Senate took in huge sums of money in the first three months of the year as they gear up to protect their 50-50 majority. All four of the GOP’s main targets — Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada — raised more than $2 million in the first quarter of this year, and all four have more than $4.3 million in the bank…Three GOP senators who haven’t officially declared if they’re running again raised much less than most other incumbents.”

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