United States: one year away from the midterm elections, the party coffers are already full

Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, here at a meeting in Perry on September 25, 2021, raised nearly $ 4 million in just over a month.

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In the United States, with a year left before the midterm elections (the “midterm elections”), Republicans and Democrats have already accumulated significant sums from private donors and fundraising from voters.

So far, the two parties have accumulated nearly $ 130 million. 

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With our correspondent in New York,

The sums collected herald a

bitter

.

According to documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission, elected Republican and Democratic Congressmen raised $ 128 million.

Double the amount posted for the same period in 2020. And undoubtedly a record, according to the 

. 

This is the result of fundraising carried out in recent months by elected officials from each party.

A sign that everyone is already preparing for the mid-term elections in 2022. Especially in the key states.

Battle for control of Congress

In Georgia, for example, Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock has received $ 100,000 a day for the past three months for a total of $ 9.5 million.

His Republican rival, Herschel Walker, raised nearly $ 4 million in just over a month. 

Democrats and Republicans, supported by partisan organizations, have already started their advertising campaigns.

A Democratic group has spent $ 15 million since July for advertisements highlighting Joe Biden's reform plans.

Another Republican group has announced the launch of an advertising campaign for more than 10 million dollars.

The Republicans plan to do everything to secure key states and regain control of both houses of Congress.

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