Despite raising less in 2022 than in the past two election cycles, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) has spent at least $8.9 million on 2022 midterm elections, largely through affiliated state-level super PACs targeting Democratic incumbents. RAGA, a 527 political advocacy group that works to elect Republican state attorneys general, raised about $3.7 million in political contributions and membership dues in the third quarter of 2022 — $2.7 million less than it did in the third quarter of 2020, according to OpenSecrets’ review of recent tax filings. This brings its total fundraising for the 2022 election cycle to nearly $26.3 million, down 14% compared to similar periods in 2020 and 2018. With nearly $5.7 million in reported contributions for the third quarter, the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA) outraised its Republican counterpart for the first time since early 2020. RAGA’s fundraising lull comes nearly two years after several donors cut ties with the Republican group after reports of its involvement in the Washington, D.C. rally preceding the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Documented, a government watchdog, was first to uncover that RAGA’s policy arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, sent robocalls to supporters of former President Donald Trump promoting the March to Save America rally on the eve of the event. [..]
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