The Democratic National Committee is sending money to every state Democratic party in the country for the first time in its history to bolster down-ballot races in the final sprint toward November.
The nearly $2.5 million investment — shared first with POLITICO — aims to help break Republican supermajorities in deep-red states and strengthen voter engagement efforts across the U.S. It’s part of a broader push for increased local support by the DNC, which says it’s increased state party funding by 25 percent during Jaime Harrison’s tenure as chair.
“Money like this can really make or break state legislative district races,” said DNC spokesperson Cameron Niven.
“The statehouses are really where change can happen, where a strategic investment like this can make a difference,” Niven added. “This investment right now shows that in the last couple months of the campaign, we’re really making the effort to support all of our state colleagues in all of these down-ballot races.”
The DNC is sending more than $400,000 to Florida, which in a release it called “a priority state that we know Democrats can win,” focusing on Puerto Rican voter engagement. It’s investing almost $100,000 in Missouri to hire organizing staff in hopes Democrats can pick up a handful of seats in the state House and Senate to break a GOP supermajority. And it’s even spending about $70,000 in deep-red Idaho, a state that hasn’t elected a Democratic senator in over four decades and where Republicans control every arm of the state government.