abortion rights are going to be able to rally democrats heading into these midterms which are now just, i mean, four months away. one early glimpse we have the second quarter fund-raising reporting figures. you re seeing the numbers for democrats very strong in the most recent wave of reporting. fedderman crushing odds in pennsylvania. time ryan in ohio outraising j.d. vance, the democratic incumbent in georgia, in nevada, colorado, arizona doing very well. abortion politics is driving a lot of this from the fund-raising perspective. people s nervousness, women s nervousness they ll see their rights restricted under stronger republican majority senate. the question is can that money, can those big donations translate into votes?
who is joining me on set and ali vatali from new hampshire. and stephanie, so glad you are here to break us the news and bring it to us. you spoke exclusively with bloomberg s communications director and what did he tell you about the timing and why now and the goal? i know. i know the team well. before i joined the team, i worked with bloomberg news. i spoke with the communications manager and as far as why now, it is easy for us to say and traditionalists to say way too late, but in their mind they say look at the 18 early voting states and only one-third of the voters according to a recent cbs poll have decided who they will vote for. and jason schacter went on the say, why are you are not doing the caucuses, and he siing that is the way to do it from a fund-raising perspective, but mike is entirely self-funding. remember that president trump said that he was self-funding,
joe biden is the person that can best take on donald trump. and when i spoke with an adviser today, they pointed me to a similar type of polling from the washington post and abc news poll that showed double digit leads for biden when it comes to who can best take on president trump and who s the strongest leader. so again, when they see numbers like that, they feel like that reenforces their message about electability and to that end on friday, they also put out some new numbers. $5.3 million they ve raised online in october. that was their best online fund raising month that they ve had so far and what s interesting is that s coming as vice president biden is is taking all of this incoming from president trump about ukraine, these unfounded allegations about eukraine and hunter biden so they really saw a spike in fund raising online for them and yeah, it s just been a lot. it s been very positive from their perspective in the last several weeks from a fund
certainly has higher aspirations when it comes to republican politics, jim jordan of ohio, remember the freedom caucus, now having to deny allegation that s he knew about sexual abuse while he was a wrestling coach at the university of ohio state a couple of decades ago. here s jim jordan yesterday. then we ll get your reaction. conversations in a locker room are a lot different than people coming up and talking about abuse. no one ever reported any abuse to me. if they had, i would have dealt with it. leland: our reporting says that republicans are heading for the hills when it comes to jim jordan on this, if for nothing else than the accusations, whether true or not, really taint him, from a fund raising perspective, a republican supporter perspective. does this raise new questions? i know jim jordan. he s a great guy. his integrity is not in question. i question the timing of the
people can give or not, but he s not fund raising off of this. you re in new york for the fund-raising dinner that the president is at tonight, the rnc, you have talked about feeling very comfortable with where you are from the fund-raising perspective. and there s roughly $400,000 that the rnc spent on legal fees for president trump, for members of his team tied to the russia investigation, how far is the rnc willing to go? because it seems as though this? well, the rnc has always paid legal fees for the campaigns. and all the instances took place during the campaign. that standard practice. we have a separate account, legal account, that can only be used for legal proceedings, recounts, redistributing and of course campaign legal fees. we ll see where that goes. but of course this is something that is standard practice for the rnc. ronna romney mcdaniel, chair of the republican national committee. you re in new york, i m in d.c. next time we ll have you onset. thank you, hall