In mid-April, senior advisers to a dozen Republican senators gathered on the second floor of the National Republican Senatorial Committeeās offices, where NRSC executive director Kevin McLaughlin detailed the stark online fundraising disparities that led to eight GOP incumbents getting outraised by Democrats in the first three months of 2020.McLaughlin concluded his presentation with a dire warning: If campaigns didnāt improve their digital fundraising dramatically, theyād have no way to counter a āgreen tsunamiā of Democratic spending in the fall, according to three people familiar with the meeting.
Six months later, the green tsunami is here. And itās threatening to wipe out the Republican Senate majority.
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āGreen tsunamiā: Inside Senate Republicansā financial freak-out (Politico)