AP said the totals reflect the 2025 calendar year, before early-2026 political developments that have “alterado la política nacional” began to shape campaigning and voter sentiment.

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Republicans have entered the midterm election year with a cash advantage over Democrats, based on year-end fundraising reports filed with the Federal Election Commission and obtained by the Associated Press. The Republican National Committee reported raising 172 million dollars in 2025 and finishing the year with 95 million dollars in cash, while the Democratic National Committee reported 145 million dollars raised and ended 2025 with 14 million dollars in cash and 17 million dollars in debt.

The AP report described the fundraising contrast as part of an uneven political setup heading into November elections for control of Congress. The story said Republicans hold the White House and both chambers of Congress, while Democrats have faced difficulties “en la era Trump,” with the fundraising gap suggesting Republicans could have an easier time financing advertising, staffing, and other campaign activity.

House-focused committees also showed a difference in year-end totals. The AP said the Republican House campaign committee raised 13 million dollars in the last month of 2025 to finish with more than 117 million dollars for the National Republican Congressional Committee, while the Democrats’ House committee ended 2025 with 115 million dollars.

Both House committees started 2026 with roughly 50 million dollars in cash, the AP reported, with campaign committees’ disclosures due to be filed with the FEC that weekend. The AP said a similar dynamic was developing in Senate fundraising as the parties moved into the new year.

In the House leadership arena, Speaker Mike Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday” that the broader Republican Party fundraising totals made him optimistic about maintaining the narrow majority and potentially expanding it. Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said: “Vamos a tener un fondo de guerra para competir.”

Democratic campaign officials pushed back on any sense that fundraising automatically translates to election losses for their side. Viet Shelton, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the “inercia está de nuestro lado,” adding that Republicans were “corriendo asustados” because Democrats had better candidates and a better message as the party sought to win back control of the House.

In the Senate, the AP reported that the Republican National Senatorial Committee raised 88 million dollars in 2025 and ended the year with 19.3 million dollars in cash. It said the Democratic Senate campaign committee raised 79.8 million dollars but ended 2025 with 21.7 million dollars in cash, a slight edge in cash-on-hand for Democrats despite the smaller total haul.

The AP report also cautioned that the year-end fundraising figures cover 2025, before a set of events in January and beyond began to affect national politics. It referenced developments ranging from the U.S. military action against Venezuela to protests in Minneapolis that ended with the deaths of two Americans during clashes tied to government migration raids, saying it was not clear whether voters and donors would show durable changes in attitude toward the parties.