民主党国会竞选委员会正在紧急寻求资金支持，并给捐赠者设定了最后期限：必须在规定时间内筹集1700万美元，才能在2024年共和党轻松胜出的几个选区展开有力竞争。据《政治报》获得的、周五发给捐赠者的备忘录显示，民主党国会竞选委员会执行主任朱莉·默茨表示，委员会需要在10月22日前获得这笔资金，这样才能“充分利用我们现有的机会”，在核心竞选区域之外争取胜算。默茨警告称，如果捐赠者未能及时出资，民主党“可能会错失本可赢下的选战”。
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is begging for resources, and setting a hard deadline for donors to give $17 million in order to compete in a handful of districts that Republicans carried easily in 2024. DCCC Executive Director Julie Merz said the committee needs the cash influx by Oct. 22 in order to “to take advantage of the opportunities we have” outside of the core battlefield, according to a memo shared with donors on Friday and obtained by POLITICO. If they don’t pony up, Merz warns, the party “could be leaving winnable races on the table.”
本轮选举周期中，民主党一直承认自身在筹款方面处于劣势，但此前一直不愿明确列出具体的资金需求数额，因此周五发布的这份备忘录显得格外出人意料。默茨在备忘录中指出：“现实情况很严峻：共和党阵营已积累了规模庞大的竞选资金，数额远超我们，而且他们正在积极动用这些资金。”她还强调，委员会成员“依然坚信我们能在25天内重新夺回多数席位”。
Democrats have been clear that they have a fundraising disadvantage this cycle, but they have so far been reluctant to place a specific dollar amount on their needs, making the DCCC’s memo Friday a particularly surprising outlier. “Here’s the tough reality though: the Republican ecosystem has amassed a massive war chest that is significantly greater than ours and is spending it,” Merz says in the memo after arguing that the members of the committee "remain confident that we will win back the majority in 25 days.”Specifically, Merz dedicates significant portions of the memo to four districts where the committee is desperate for more money in order to compete — all of which President Donald Trump won by double-digit margins in 2024: — Florida’s 27th District (Trump +14.6) — Nevada’s 2nd District (Trump +13.9) — South Carolina’s 1st District (Trump +13) — New York’s 21st District (Trump +20.7) The fundraising disadvantage has created headaches for both House and Senate Democrats over where, exactly, to deploy the resources they do have.
备忘录中，默茨用大量篇幅重点介绍了四个急需资金支持的选区——这些地方都是唐纳德·特朗普在2024年大选中以两位数优势获胜的地区：——佛罗里达州第27选区（特朗普领先14.6个百分点）——内华达州第2选区（特朗普领先13.9个百分点）——南卡罗来纳州第1选区（特朗普领先13个百分点）——纽约州第21选区（特朗普领先20.7个百分点）资金短缺的问题让众议院及参议院的民主党人颇为头疼：他们难以决定究竟该将有限的资源投入到哪些选区。
The committee tells donors that their internal polling shows all of those races within reach, but that Republicans’ big cash advantages — especially in the Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA Inc. — will make it harder to win those and other reach seats.
委员会向捐赠者透露，内部民调显示上述所有选区的胜算都很大，但由于共和党拥有巨大的资金优势——尤其是与特朗普立场一致的超级政治行动委员会“MAGA Inc.”——民主党要赢得这些原本有望胜出的席位及其他潜在目标选区将变得愈发困难。
Merz also name drops a handful of other deep-red districts that are “worthy of additional investment in this environment,” including seats held by GOP Reps.
默兹还列举了几个“在当前环境下值得追加投资”的深红选区，其中包括共和党众议员弗伦奇·希尔（阿肯色州）以及共和党全国国会委员会主席理查德·哈德森（北卡罗来纳州）所代表的选区。共和党全国国会委员会迅速对民主党全国国会委员会发布的备忘录予以嘲讽。该委员会发言人迈克·马里内拉在一份声明中称：“再多的资金也无法让选民接受那些不受欢迎的候选人。这些选区仍将保持红色，而共和党人正在全国范围内发起攻势。”
French Hill (R-Ark.) and Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), the chair of the Republican National Congressional Committee. The NRCC was quick to mock the DCCC’s memo. “No amount of money fixes candidates voters don’t want. These seats are staying red, and Republicans are on offense across the map,” NRCC spokesperson Mike Marinella said in a statement.