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Welcome back to E-PAC’s exclusive weekly update! Thanks again for supporting E-PAC’s mission to engage, elevate, empower and ELECT Republican women to Congress. Because of supporters like you, E-PAC has raised and donated nearly 2 MILLION dollars for Republican women in less than two years!
Read below for our update on the incredible GOP women working to take back the House in 2022!
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Team Elise Shatters Off-Year Q2 Record
This week, Team Elise announced that our three entities, Elise for Congress, E-PAC and Elise Victory Fund, raised a combined total of $1,467,000 for Q2 2021. This marks a record for Congresswoman Stefanik’s Q2 fundraising in an off-year and stands in addition to the record early support the Congresswoman has raised for 2022 GOP candidates.
Cycle-to-date, Team Elise raised over $500,000 via WinRed directly for targeted GOP campaigns, including nearly $400,000 for GOP women candidates.
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POLITICO: Stefanik raises $1.5 million in second quarter
“Rep. Elise Stefanik, the newly minted House GOP conference chair, raised nearly $1.5 million in the last three months — her seventh consecutive quarter raising seven figures.
The fourth-term incumbent raised more than $1.2 million for her campaign account from April through June; $116,000 through E-PAC, her leadership PAC created to elect more Republican women; and the rest through her joint fundraising committee.
And as the New York Republican moves into her party’s leadership with a legion of small-dollar donors, she’s increasingly positioned herself as a kingmaker.
In May, she transferred $1 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee and she raised an additional $60,000 for the committee since then. And she’s also brought in over $500,000 this cycle via WinRed for House GOP candidates — and in the process shared 30,000 of her donors with other campaigns.
"I continue to be humbled, grateful and blown away by the unprecedented small-dollar financial support for Team Elise and our mission," Stefanik said in a statement. "Momentum is on our side to take back the House and fire Nancy Pelosi once and for all."”
Read the full article here.
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Record-Breaking GOP Fundraising Continues
Republicans are SURGING across the country. The NRCC broke fundraising records in Q2:
- $79.2M total- best first-half fundraising total in NRCC history
- $45.4M in Q2- best off-year quarter ever
- $20.1M in June- highest off-year month ever
- $55M cash-on-hand
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NBC News: House Republican campaign arm bests Democrats in latest fundraising haul
“The National Republican Congressional Committee raised more than $45.4 million in the second quarter of 2021, besting its Democratic counterparts by nearly $9 million as the battle for control of the House heats up, according to numbers shared by the GOP group. The NRCC said it raised over $20 million in June, which is $5.6 million more than the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee brought in last month.”
Read the full story here.
GOP women continued to announce unprecedented Q2 fundraising hauls. The freshmen class is stacked with rising stars who are working to help take back the House in 2022. Special shout out to Rep. Young Kim for breaking $1 million raised this quarter!
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More GOP Women Announce Runs for Congress
So far over 127 GOP Women have filed for Congress this cycle.
VA-07: Republican Taylor Keeney recently announced she is running for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, a seat currently held by vulnerable Democrat Abigail Spanberger.
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Kenney joins another GOP woman candidate, Tina Rameriz, in the primary race. Read more about Taylor here.
IA-03: Republican Nicole Hasso launched her bid for IA-03 against Democrat Cidney Axne to speak out against Critical Race Theory and fight back against Democrats’ socialist agenda. Read more about Nicole here.
E-PAC Endorsed Candidate Update
As more Republican women step up and announce their run for Congress, E-PAC will begin making endorsement announcements in the next few months.
So far in the 2022 cycle, E-PAC is 2 for 2 in primaries. Elise’s early endorsement of Susan Wright marked the second E-PAC endorsement of the 2022 cycle following Julia Letlow’s decisive victory in the Louisiana Special Election and the historic success of electing Republican women in 2020.
See below for an update on Susan Wright’s Special Election and stay up to date on all 2021-2022 EPAC endorsed candidates here.
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Update on the TX-06 Special:
E-PAC Supports Susan Wright in the Final Stretch
The July 27th Special General Runoff Election is less than TWO weeks away and GOP activist Susan Wright is hitting the campaign trail hard speaking with voters across Texas’s 6th district.
President Trump, who endorsed Susan, recently released a statement highlighting her strong campaign:
"Very proud of the campaign that Susan Wright is waging in Texas’s 6th Congressional District runoff. She is working very hard, has already defeated the Democrat, and has a substantial lead to close it out on July 27, 2021."
Elise provided critical support in the primary, and she continues to back Susan in the runoff. To date, E-PAC has raised Susan over $70,000. But with less than two weeks to go, every dollar counts. Will you help Susan Wright across the finish line by rushing a donation?
Help Susan Wright Across the Finish Line>>> Rush a Donation NOW
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GOP Woman of the Week: Rep. Maria Elvira Salzar (FL-27)
Leading the Charge to Support the Cuban People’s Fight For Freedom
The Cuban people are risking everything to march for freedom from a communist dictatorship that has oppressed them for more than six decades. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar is a daughter of Cuban exiles who is known for her fierce advocacy for Human Rights and democracy around the world, especially for the people of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua.
Rep. Salazar has been a leading voice for the Cuban people’s fight for freedom. Congresswoman Stefanik was proud to join Rep. Salazar and other Republicans in cosponsoring Mario Diaz-Balart’s resolution to stand in solidarity with the Cuban people. President Biden’s lack of leadership is a disgrace and has undermined the cause of freedom in Cuba and around the world.
Thank you Rep. Salazar for showing that the Republican Party stands in solidarity with the Cuban people!
Support Rep. Maria Elvira Salzar here:
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