Democrats announce huge fundraising haul for state legislative race efforts
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee has raised $21 million for 2024 races in states like Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee has raised more than one-third of its $60 million goal for 2024 races and will use some of the cash to target Democratic pickup opportunities in special elections over the coming weeks in Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, according to a memo outlining the group's strategy this year.
The memo by the national Democratic arm in charge of funding candidates for state legislative races — shared with NBC News ahead of its release Wednesday morning — comes after the group announced last year that it would plan to spend $60 million during the 2024 election cycle.
The DLCC said Wednesday that it had already raised $21 million, a sum that would allow it to stay on track to fulfill the goals it set in an array of states with competitive legislative races.
In its initial announcement last month, the DLCC said it would focus heavily on helping Democrats protect control of state House chambers in Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and helping them flip state House and state Senate chambers in Arizona and New Hampshire.
But on Wednesday, the group added to its targets a trio of January special elections — a Florida state House race on Jan. 16 and two New Hampshire state House races on Jan. 23 — as well as additional races in late winter and early spring.
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