A super political action committee working to give the Republican Party the advantage in the Senate pulled in more than $24 million in the first three months of 2024.
On April 9, a spokesman for the Senate Leadership Fund confirmed with The Epoch Times that the super PAC raised $24.4 million between January and March of this year.
According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, the first quarter amount would nearly match the about $37.1 million the super PAC collected in 2023.
The Senate Leadership Fund, according to its website, is an “independent Super PAC” with “one goal: to build a Republican Senate majority that will defend America from Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats’ destructive far-left agenda.”
The Fund is not officially associated with the Republican Party. However, it is a key opponent to Democratic Party candidates for the legislature’s upper chamber.
According to FEC records, the Fund spent about $290.9 million to oppose various Democrats in the midterm election cycles of 2021 and 2022. For example, the Fund spent about $47.5 million against Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and about $45.2 million attacking Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.).
The Fund’s April 9 announcement came about a week ahead of the FEC’s deadline for quarterly disclosures. On April 15, the fund, along with many other FEC-regulated committees reporting on a quarterly basis, will publish full financial disclosure documents.
When the Fund last issued a report on Jan. 31, it reflected its activity for the entire calendar year of 2023. The 2023 report said the Fund had about $35 million on hand.
The Fund is the conservative answer to the Democrat-aligned Senate Majority PAC (SMP). The SMP, as it is registered with the FEC, is a super PAC that is not officially affiliated with the Democratic Party but spends on attacking Republicans or boosting Democrat candidates for the Senate.
The SMP, by comparison, told the FEC it had about $61.6 million on hand at the end of 2023. It will report its first quarter figures on April 15, too.
