2026年4月20日 / 美国东部时间早上6:00 / 哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻
众议院共和党人的竞选机构——全国共和党国会委员会（NRCC）主席在接受CBS新闻采访时表示，该委员会在2026年中期选举周期开局之际创下了筹款纪录。
全国共和党国会委员会主席理查德·哈德逊称，委员会今年前三个月筹款4710万美元，创下该委员会任何年份第一季度筹款额的最高纪录。哈德逊补充说，委员会3月份筹款2810万美元，创下历史上单月最高筹款纪录，目前委员会手头现金达7820万美元，整个选举周期内筹款总额达1.644亿美元。
“这是我们有史以来最好的第一季度业绩，”哈德逊表示，他认为这些数字反映出众议院共和党人的势头正盛，他们正试图在对共和党不利的政治环境中守住微弱多数席位，并抵御历史上中期选举的逆风。“共和党捐赠者正在投入资金。他们明白众议院多数席位是抵御民主党越权行为的防火墙。”
代表北卡罗来纳州第9国会选区的哈德逊预测，共和党将打破民主党关于民主党将在11月换届选举中夺回众议院多数席位的预测。
“看看整个国会的435个席位，只有大约30到40个席位是争夺席位，其余席位都是安全席位。随着两党越来越老练，选区重划让席位版图变得越来越小，我认为这改变了我们以往看到的选情格局。”哈德逊说，“众议院共和党人将守住多数席位。我们目前拥有所有势头，而我们刚刚创下了NRCC历史上最好的第一季度业绩，我认为这证明了这一点。”
2026年3月25日，唐纳德·特朗普总统与众议院议长迈克·约翰逊出席在华盛顿特区联合车站举行的全国共和党国会委员会年度筹款晚宴。奇普·索莫德维拉 / 盖蒂图片社
哈德逊将委员会筹款额增长归功于特朗普总统，称他在推动委员会筹款方面发挥了核心作用，包括最近在华盛顿主持的一场NRCC筹款晚宴就筹集了近3700万美元。
哈德逊告诉CBS新闻，他大约每个月都会与总统当面会面，“讨论”众议院竞选事宜，并定期与他通话。
“我们的会议通常会持续一个小时以上，因为他真的想深入了解细节。他对这些个别国会竞选的了解程度令人惊讶，”哈德逊说，“他明白守住众议院的重要性。”
特朗普总统上周前往亚利桑那州和内华达州进行西部之行，为摇摆选区的共和党国会候选人造势。
“今年11月，我们必须赢得中期选举，”总统在凤凰城举行的转折点美国活动上对人群说，“我们将赢得胜利，而且是前所未有的胜利。”
但民主党人指出多项民调以及过去一年的多场选举结果，称他们在中期选举前势头正盛。
“从国会特别选举、州议会选举、公共服务委员选举，甚至州最高法院选举来看，民主党不仅在投票率上表现优于对手，还赢得了这些选举，”前民主党全国委员会高级官员海玛·穆尔说，“特朗普总统和共和党国会曾表示，上任第一天就会降低民众生活成本。相反，他们一直在关注其他一切事务，唯独不提降低日常开支。美国人仍在受苦，但他们开始重新信任民主党了。这对11月的选举来说是个好迹象。”
2026年3月25日，众议院议长迈克·约翰逊与全国共和党国会委员会主席理查德·哈德逊出席在华盛顿特区联合车站举行的NRCC年度筹款晚宴。奇普·索莫德维拉 / 盖蒂图片社
历史上，掌控白宫的政党通常会在中期选举中丢失席位。过去50年里，只有少数几个显著例外，包括1998年比尔·克林顿总统任内和2002年乔治·W·布什总统任内。
近期民调凸显了共和党面临的挑战：约三分之二的美国人认为经济状况不佳，多数人不认可特朗普对经济问题的处理方式。其中约65%的美国人总体上不认可他的经济政策，近70%的人不认可他在通胀问题上的表现。总统的整体支持率在近期CBS新闻民调中一直在40%左右徘徊，但本月早些时候跌至39%的低点。
这些数据凸显了共和党潜在的软肋，尤其是在经济担忧——尤其是生活成本问题——仍是选民秋季选举前首要关切的背景下，同时伊朗局势持续影响着全美汽油价格。
哈德逊预测，“民众的钱包问题仍将是主要议题”，同时他坚称共和党已出台的经济政策将让“民众生活更美好”，相比之下，前总统乔·拜登任期内出现了创纪录的通胀和油价上涨。他还辩称，全国民调并不总能反映个别众议院选区的选情。
“民主党喜欢引用全国民调、全国通用投票测试，试图告诉你这30或40个国会选区会发生什么，但事实是，如果你逐个选区来看，每个选区都是独立的，而且我们在候选人质量上拥有优势。需要争夺的民主党席位比共和党席位更多，”哈德逊说，“随着秋季选举的临近，我们可以告诉选民：我们承诺过降低你们的税收，承诺过释放美国能源潜力，承诺过加强边境安全，让你们的社区更安全，我们已经兑现了这些承诺。”
更广泛的众议院共和党筹款网络也报告了强劲的筹款数据。与众议院共和党领导层结盟的外部团体，包括国会领导基金超级政治行动委员会和美国行动网络，整个选举周期迄今已筹集近1.93亿美元。众议院共和党领导层成员也在第一季度实现了可观的筹款额，其中议长迈克·约翰逊以3400万美元创下纪录。据NRCC称，他目前已为众议院共和党人筹集了超过1.16亿美元的硬美元资金。哈德逊还强调了摇摆选区中脆弱的共和党现任议员——被称为“NRCC爱国者”——的第一季度筹款表现，将其视为中期选举前早期财务实力的迹象。
作为NRCC对应机构的众议院民主党竞选委员会（DCCC）需于周一晚间提交第一季度筹款数据。但周四，DCCC公布了其核心国会候选人和挑战者的筹款实力，称第一季度 filings“显示出民众对众议院民主党人和民主党挑战者的广泛支持”。
“众议院民主党人整个选举周期都在主动出击。我们一直在围绕降低生活成本的信息积累势头，而共和党却陷入为他们失控的政策辩护的境地，这些政策推高了物价，”DCCC发言人维特·谢尔顿在一份声明中说，“两者的对比再清晰不过，我们的候选人以可观的竞选资金开启了选举年。”
上个月，DCCC公布其2月份筹款1370万美元，整个选举周期筹款总额达1.391亿美元，手头现金达5730万美元。
民主党人还指出关键摇摆选区的竞选情况——这些是他们若想在2027年夺回众议院多数席位可能需要赢下的选区——他们的挑战者筹款额超过了共和党现任议员。根据联邦选举委员会（FEC）的第一季度备案文件，在宾夕法尼亚州，贾内尔·斯泰尔森筹款220万美元，超过了众议员斯科特·佩里的110万美元。在亚利桑那州，乔安娜·门多萨筹款240万美元，是众议员胡安·西斯科马尼筹款额的两倍多。在威斯康星州第3选区，丽贝卡·库克筹款240万美元，而现任议员德里克·范奥登筹款130万美元。
在参议院方面，多位参与竞争性选举的民主党参议员筹款额超过了共和党对手，包括在德克萨斯州，民主党参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔莱科在今年首个筹款季度筹款2700万美元，创下该时期任何参议院候选人的最高筹款纪录。在佐治亚州，据FEC公开备案文件显示，现任民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫筹款1400万美元，其连任竞选手头现金达3170万美元。
安妮·布莱森为本报道撰稿。
House GOP’s campaign arm touts record $47 million fundraising haul in first three months of 2026
April 20, 2026 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News
The National Republican Congressional Committee, House Republicans’ campaign arm, is touting a record-breaking fundraising haul to start the 2026 midterm cycle, the committee chairman told CBS News in an interview.
National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Richard Hudson said the committee raised $47.1 million in the first three months of the year, the largest amount ever for the NRCC in the first quarter of any year. Hudson added that the committee posted its strongest March in its history with $28.1 million, and now has $78.2 million cash on hand and $164.4 million for the entire cycle.
“This is the best first quarter we’ve ever had,” Hudson said, arguing the numbers reflect growing momentum for House Republicans as they look to defend their slim majority in a tough political climate for Republicans and stave off historic midterm headwinds. “Republican donors are investing. They understand that the House majority is a firewall against Democrat overreach.”
Hudson, who represents North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, is predicting Republicans will defy the Democrats’ forecast that they will flip the House in November.
“If you look at the map of the entire Congress, 435 seats, there’s only somewhere between 30-40 seats that are up for grabs. The rest of the seats are safe seats. And so the map has evolved and gotten smaller and smaller as Republicans and Democrats have gotten more sophisticated. They are redistricting, and so a much smaller map, I think, changes the dynamics that we’ve seen traditionally,” Hudson said. ” House Republicans are going to hold our majority. We’ve got all the momentum right now. And the fact that we just recorded our best first quarter in the NRCC history, I think, demonstrates this.”
President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson attend the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner at Union Station on March 25, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Hudson credited President Trump with playing a central role in boosting the committee’s fundraising efforts, including headlining a recent NRCC fundraising dinner in Washington that raised nearly $37 million.
Hudson told CBS News he sits down with the president in person approximately every month to “talk through” the House races and speaks with him regularly.
“Our meetings typically will last an hour or more because he just really wants to get into the details. His level of knowledge about these individual congressional races is astonishing,” Hudson said. “He understands how important it is to hold the House.”
Mr. Trump took a western swing to Arizona and Nevada last week to help rally for Republican congressional candidates in battleground seats.
“This November, we gotta win the midterms,” The president told the crowd at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix. “We’re going to win and win like never before.”
But Democrats point to both polling and a slew of elections over the last year to argue they have momentum going into the midterms.
“From special elections for Congress to state legislature races, to public service commissioners, and even state supreme courts. Democrats are not only overperforming in turnout, they are winning these elections,” Hyma Moore, a former senior official for the Democratic National Committee, said. ” President Trump and the Republican Congress said they would lower costs on day one. Instead, they have focused on everything except lowering everyday costs. Americans are still hurting, but they are starting to trust Democrats again. That’s a good sign for November.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Richard Hudson, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, attend the NRCC’s annual fundraising dinner at Union Station on March 25, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
The party that holds the White House has historically lost seats in midterm elections. Over the past 50 years, there have been only a few notable exceptions to that trend, including 1998 under President Bill Clinton and in 2002 under President George W. Bush.
Recent polling highlights those challenges, with roughly two-thirds of Americans saying the economy is in bad shape and a majority disapproving of Mr. Trump’s handling of economic issues. That includes about 65% of Americans who say they disapprove of his handling of the economy overall, and nearly 70% disapproving of his job on inflation. The president’s overall job approval had hovered in the low 40s in recent CBS News polling but hit a low of 39% earlier this month.
Those numbers showcase the potential vulnerabilities for Republicans, particularly as economic concerns – especially cost of living issues – remain top of mind for voters heading into the fall, while the war in Iran continues to impact gas prices across the country.
Hudson predicted that “people’s pocketbook issues are going to remain predominant issues,” while asserting that Republicans have enacted economic policies that will make “people’s lives better” compared to former President Joe Biden’s tenure, which he blamed for record inflation and record gas prices. He also contended that national polling does not always reflect the dynamics of individual House races.
“Democrats like to point to national polls, national generic ballot tests, to try to tell you what’s going to happen in these 30 or 40 congressional races, but the fact is, if you look race by race, every one is an individual race, and every one of these we have the advantage in candidate quality. There are more Democrat seats up for grabs than Republican seats,” ” Hudson said. “As we go to the election this fall, we can tell the voters: we promised you that we would bring down your taxes, we promised you that we would unleash American energy, we promised you that we’d secure the border and make your neighborhood safer, and we delivered on those promises.”
The broader House Republican fundraising network is also reporting strong numbers. Outside groups aligned with House GOP leadership, including the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC and the American Action Network, have raised nearly $193 million so far this cycle. Top Republican leaders have also posted sizable fundraising totals in the first quarter, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, whose $34 million set a record. According to NRCC, he has now raised more than $116 million in hard dollars for House Republicans this cycle. Hudson also highlighted the first-quarter fundraising performance from vulnerable GOP incumbents in swing seats– dubbed the “NRCC Patriots”– as a sign of early financial strength heading into the midterms.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democratic counterpart to the NRCC, has until the end of Monday to file its first-quarter numbers. But on Thursday, the DCCC touted the fundraising strength of its own front-line congressional candidates and challengers, saying that Q1 filings “reveal sweeping grassroots support for House Democrats and Democratic challengers.”
“House Democrats have been on offense all cycle. While we are building momentum with a message focused on lowering costs, Republicans are stuck defending their out-of-control policies, driving prices up,” Viet Shelton, a spokesperson for the DCCC, said in a statement. “The contrast couldn’t be clearer and our candidates are starting the election year with a formidable war chest.”
Last month, the DCCC released that they had raised $13.7 million for the month of February, posting $139.1 million for the entire cycle and $57.3 million in cash-on-hand.
Democrats also point to key battleground races – the kinds of races they would likely need to win to take back the House majority in 2027 – where their challengers are outraising Republican incumbents. According to first-quarter filings with the Federal Election Commission, in Pennsylvania, Janelle Stelson collected $2.2 million, topping Rep. Scott Perry’s $1.1 million. In Arizona, JoAnna Mendoza raised $2.4 million, more than double Rep. Juan Ciscomani’s total. In Wisconsin’s 3rd District, Rebecca Cooke brought in $2.4 million, compared to $1.3 million for Rep. Derrick Van Orden.
On the Senate side, many of the Democrats in competitive Senate races outraised their Republican rivals, including in Texas, where Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico raised $27 million in the year’s first fundraising quarter– the largest sum ever for any Senate candidate during that period. In Georgia, incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff raised $14 million and has $31.7 million cash on hand for his re-election bid in Georgia, according to public FEC filings.
Anne Bryson contributed to this report.
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