Are Republicans tuning on each other or just giving up on party as battle lines shift in races and retreat from front-line districts?
According to AP reports, Republicans are retreating from a handful of battleground U.S. House races while Democrats were racing to raise money to boost candidates who seemed like long shots earlier this year. Read more.
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the leading House Republican super PAC, canceled spending in four races from the Midwest to the East Coast and increased its investment in 16 other races. Meanwhile, Democrats' House campaign committee is eyeing openings in Republican-held districts and hoping to raise millions of dollars in the next week to fuel a late round of advertising that they say could net at least a half dozen more seats. The shifting money in the final three weeks of midterm campaigns points to an increasingly defensive posture by Republicans.
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