The Democrats who are executed in a couple of special elections of April 1 for the districts of the House of Republican Representatives in Florida have raised the whopping of $ 15.7 million combined in two months, but still face uploaded uploads steep in the next campaigns.
Gay Valimont, a weapons control activist who is postulated in the first district of the Florida Congress, raised almost $ 6.4 million from January 9 to March 12, five times more than Republican Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s financial director, Florida, Florida, Florida’s financial director, According to the new fundraising reports presented on Thursday before the Federal Elections Commission.
And Josh Weil, a teacher who goes in the 6th district, raised $ 9.3 million, a more than 16 times larger tour than the Republican state senator Randy Fine.
Massive sums suggest that energy among base Democratic donors has not dissipated with President Donald Trump in the Oval office: 75% of Valimont and Weil’s sets were donations of $ 200 or less. But while the collection of funds from the candidates is strong, the underlying political mathematics of the districts are extremely friendly for the relationship
Trump took the first district in Panhandle in Florida in 37 percentage points in November, winning 68% of the votes, according to data on electoral results of the NBC News decision table. And he won the sixth district for 30 points, winning 65% of the votes.
A wave of small -base base donations fed the Democrats who were executed in early special elections in 2017 and 2018 during the first months of Trump’s first mandate. The special elections of April 1 in Florida are the first of Trump’s second term, but the Democrats are heavy in both districts and the careers have attracted little attention to political parties or external groups until the last days.
The special elections will replace former Republican representative Matt Gaetz in the first district, who announced that he would resign from Congress and then retired as Trump’s election for the Attorney General in the midst of accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior, and former representative Michael Waltz, Trump National Security Advisor. Gaetz and Waltz won their reelections last year for more than 30 points.
Trump has backed the two nominees to the Republican party in those careers, and the party hopes to fill the thin republican majority in the Chamber, which facilitates the advantage of the legislation, even if there are some members of the absent Republican party or voting no.
Patronis raised more than $ 1.1 million from mid -January to mid -March, a period that included the primary of January 28. The fine raised $ 561,000 during the same period of time.
The latest reports also show that Democrats have greatly surpassed their Republican opponents. Valimont has spent $ 4.2 million and had $ 2.2 million in his campaign account at March 12, while Patronis spent more than $ 1 million and had $ 815,000 in his account. Weill spent $ 8.1 million in the $ 710,000 fine that end the period with $ 1.3 million available to $ 93,000 of the fine.
No race has seen a lot of participation of national parties or external groups from primary until this week.
The Florida Republican Party launched a purchase of joint ads with fine, spending $ 930,000 in ads, according to Impact. And defending American jobs, a super PAC linked to the cryptocurrency industry, has spent $ 1 million on advertisements so far, which began on Tuesday.
On Thursday, the National Democratic Committee announced that it was sending funds to the Florida Democratic Party, although it did not specify how much, to help the party to hire organizers and responders of respondents.
