Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who are at the highest risk of losing their seats swept in a massive amount of campaign cash in the first three months of the year—an early sign that the party could maintain control of the chamber in the November elections.
The group of nearly four dozen Democrats known as Frontliners—mostly first-term members who in 2018 flipped districts won by President Donald Trump—on average outraised their Republican challengers threefold. Together, the Democratic lawmakers now have five times more money in their accounts, Newsweek’s analysis of Federal Election Commission filings showed.