WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raised nearly $16 million during September, its largest-ever monthly total, officials said.
That's twice the amount raised in August, and it will be spent supporting Democratic candidates ahead of November's midterm elections, The Hill reported Saturday.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee took in $8.3 million in September, and spent nearly $14 million promoting its candidates.
The NRCC has $19 million available for the final weeks of campaigning, while the DSCC has $25.6 million on hand, the report said.
"While we've always expected to be out raised and outspent by the Democrats, the reality is that they've now been forced to abandon a number of their candidates on the campaign battlefield, including Robin Carnahan in Missouri just this week, and have assumed an almost purely defensive posture," said Rob Jesmer, the NRSC's executive director. "Senate Republicans are not only on offense in at least 10 Democrat-held Senate seats, but we're shifting even greater financial resources into blue states like California, Washington, and Illinois."
About $2 million of the DSCC's September totals came from a transfer from the Democratic National Committee, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., gave $1 million. The committee took in more than $27 million in the third quarter of the year, the report said.
"Democrats are increasingly unified and motivated in the final stretch of the midterm elections," said DSCC Executive Director J.B. Poersch. "As Republicans nominate extremists who want to return to the failed Bush economic policies of the past, Democrats are ready to fight."
