House Democrats have already reported raising $2.3 million for the second quarter, more than at the same point in 2021. The new district lines were drawn without regard to incumbent protection, which drove a wave of retirements, leading to an unusually high number of open seats.Īll signs are pointing to an extraordinarily expensive cycle in a state that allows unlimited donations. The two parties are competing this year for the state’s 140 legislative seats in a cycle that’s been shaken up by a redistricting process that overhauled Virginia’s electoral maps. Since his 2021 campaign, Youngkin, a wealthy former private equity executive, has continuallyshattered fundraising records, much to the delight of other Virginia Republicans, who have typically been outspent by Democrats in recent election cycles. “His commonsense approach to cutting taxes, backing the blue, empowering parents, and tackling our behavioral health crisis has united Virginians and he’s just getting started.” “The Governor has built and scaled an unprecedented campaign to hold the House and flip the Senate,” Dave Rexrode, the PAC’s chairman and a senior adviser to Youngkin, said in a statement to the AP. And it will leave Spirit of Virginia with $6 million in cash on hand just over two months before the start of early voting in this year’s legislative elections that will decide political control of the currently divided General Assembly. The haul will bring to $8.5 million the total Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia political action committee has raised in the first six months of 2023, according to details provided to The Associated Press ahead of a Monday reporting deadline. Glenn Youngkin’s main fundraising apparatus will soon report raising $5.75 million in this year’s second quarter, a sum that surpasses what any previous governor of the state has raised over an entire year, according to the group’s accounting.
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