According to reports on campaign finances, republican legislators of republican legislators from Pennsylvania dominate in the first quarter of 2025, probably preparing to protect their places and most houses in 2026
Running a backpack, there is a US representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.), Moderate Republican representing the Bucks Film and a piece of Montgomery, who is preparing in half in half, because the Committee of the Democratic Congress Congress Congress has directed his district to the upcoming race.
Fitzpatrick seems to be preparing a challenge, with the largest war chest from the entire Congress delegation of Pennsylvania, in this quarter: $ 1.22 million collected and $ 5.3 million at the bank.
Applications, from the Federal Electoral Commission, offer an early view on preparations until 2026 – when both sides will fight for control over the Chamber and Senate.
Three other Republicans from Pennsylvania in competitive districts also seem to be preparing for potentially costly races that should be kept in their places, because Democrats will want to regain control of both chambers. The Democratic Committee of the Congress Campaign told Inquirer at the beginning of this month that he is particularly focused on Fitzpatrick in the first district, US representative Scott Perry (R., Pa.) In the 10th district and republican first -graders of the American Rep. Ryan Mackenzie in the seventh district and rep. United States.
And freshly won in November, the newly elected US senator Dave McCormick collected about $ 784,000 in this quarter.
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Meanwhile, the US Senator John Fetterman, who will have to face re-election in 2028, brought about $ 396,000 in this quarter, and his lowest quarterly since the candidacy in 2021 in 2022, off-off between Fetterman and Celebrity MEHMET OZ became the most costly Senate Race in the country, in 2022. And Fetterman consisted of a constant stream of distribution.
GOP legislators constitute 10 out of 17 members of the Congress in Pennsylvania and pulled $ 4.8 million of the campaign between January 1 to March 31. Seven Democrats of State collected a total of a total of $ 1.2 million, in accordance with campaign financing documents.
US representative Dwight Evans (D., Pa.), Who represents the parts of Philadelphia, collected the smallest of each in a delegation in Pennsylvania, bringing around USD 38,000 in the first quarter. 70 -year -old Evans suffered a stroke last year and left hundreds of votes during a narrowly divided congress. Evans rejected the fears of his health and said he was going to apply for re -election in 2026.
“According to last year’s application, Kongresmen Evans has all his intention to apply for re-election at that time,” said Michael Dineen, senior Evans campaign advisor. “He is working hard to raise funds and plans for a successful Q2.”
Despite this, Evans will decide not to run again, other Philly Jonesing democrats may exist to take his place, including Senator Sharif Street (also chairman of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania) and a representative of the state of Morgan Cephas (D., Philadelphia).
What can this mean for the mid -term in Pennsylvania?
In 2026, all eyes will be in some districts of the swings in Pennsylvania, when Democrats and Republicans fight for the chamber and the Senate, both of which are currently under the control of GOP.
After winning in the red wave in 2024, Republicans are encircling a victory around the perspectives from funds in this quarter in half: “Home Republicans not only win the game of obtaining funds against sensitive democrats – Democrats are deprived of leaders, divided and banished to emptiness … And now they report.” Mike Marinella, spokesman for the National Republican Congress Committee, said in a statement.
For Democrats, “no money transfers” records of republicans from home, including Fitzpatrick, Mackenzie, Bresnahan or Perry, said DCC Viet Shelton spokesman in a statement, Belief that Democrats are well prepared for the midfield.
“That is why the Democrats are favored by re-receiving the majority. Even at the beginning of the cycle, domestic democrats have a better message, stronger candidates and a favorable political environment when we pass by 2026,” Shelton said.
And in four districts in Pennsylvania are the target of national democrats Republicans seem to prepare their cassettes.
Last year, Mackenzie reversed his Lehigh Valley district, beating the democratic sitting Susan Wild, which served three terms.
In the middle of the semester he will now face Democrat Lamont McClure, and the signs already indicate the path of race in the seventh district. McClure, director of Northampton, collected about USD 142,000 in this quarter – the strongest enlist of every current pretender and more than some of them in Pennsylvania.
“The most satisfied of us is in just over a month-in the first quarter we only had just over a month-we had over 1,000 small donors and what we think is that it is a campaign powered by people,” said McClure.
Despite this, the number of McClure was still overshadowed by $ 673 040 in this quarter – the Mackenzie sign said in a press release that voters “still support our mission to secure our borders, restore prosperity and put the American people in the first place.”
In the first Fitzpatrick Congress District – which advertise His status of “the most two-sided member of the Congress”-will be candidate for the sixth two-year term in 2026 to represent the Purple Bucks, where Trump won the presidential election narrowly.
He already has a pretender in the democrats of Bob Harvie, chairman of the commissioners of Bucks, who announced his plans to apply for a place this month.
Campaign financing reports were not available to Harva in this quarter.
In the 10th district of Perry, he collected about USD 565,000 in this quarter. Although no claimant officially entered the race, Janelle Stelson, a democratic television anchor, which barely lost from Perry in 2024, said in the town hall in March that she “seriously considers” the second race.
The claimant has not yet been announced for Bresnahan in the eighth district. Bresnahan collected about USD 832,000 in the first quarter, but owes over $ 1.3 million in debt and some marketing or strategic companies after last year’s elections, Fec Records show.
Christopher Nicholas, a political consultant of GOP at the Eagle Consulting Group Inc., said that some democratic strategies-as a grassroots rallies of the American representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator USA Bernie Sanders-Moga assist in catalyzing democratic energy for the midfield.
Despite this, he said that he believed Republicans, with control over both chambers, they still have an advantage when it comes to collecting funds.
“It is good to be a party in power for GOP,” he said.
