Exclusive: The chairman of the campaign arm of House Republicans rejects potential “headwind” against De Gop in her fight to keep the Chamber over the President Chamber Donald Trump’s full second term.
National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Richard Hudson, RN.C., expressed confidence that Republicans would hold the house in 2026 after the Democratic counterpart of the group surpassed the NRCC in the first month of 2025.
“Despite the national story and the headwind, home republicans have again delivered and earned the voices of the American people,” Hudson told Fox News Digital of the earlier election cycle.
He promised that Republicans would “collect the funds that are needed to maintain and grow this majority.”
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NRCC chairman Richard Hudson hopes that President Donald Trump, Inset, a Republican house will have all four years. (Reuters)
“The last cycle, the NRCC used each dollar to maximize the turnout, to support our candidates and secure 74.5 million votes for a Republican for the congress,” said Hudson. “I have faith in our plan to win again in 2026.”
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) announced earlier this week that it collected more than $ 9 million in January, the best total ever for that month in a non-election year.
“Only a month after the Republican Trifecta and it is clear that Republicans have no plans to reduce costs or to tackle problems that are important for everyday Americans, instead opting for their billionaire-wanderers,” said DCCC chairman Suzan Delbene , D-Wash. A press release.
“Huisdemocrats will hold Huis Republicans responsible for their failure to realize their campaign blade.”
The NRCC has raised slightly less than $ 6 million in the same period, according to financial data viewed by FOX News Digital.
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NRCC chairman Richard Hudson leads the campaign of the Republicans. (Getty Images)
It is not uncommon for the minority party in the house or the Senate to earn the party in power, especially in the months immediately after an election. The National Democratic Party also described De Gop in the election period from January 2023 to September 2024, in particular, according to Federal election data.
The DCCC described the NRCC by around $ 78 million in that period by around $ 78 million.
Nevertheless, the Republicans kept the house and turned control of the White House and the Senate.
Political history dictates that the Trifecta will not hold for long – the first interim after the White House changes hands, traditionally sees a political recoil against the President’s party, especially if they have held the congress during the first two years.
Hudson Fox News Digital told That he sees the Republicans who sees trend breaking in an interview during the annual Gop Retreat house in Miami at the end of last month.
Trump is in his second term and Hudson argued that the presidential race of 2024 was a referendum between two clear White House records.
DCCC chairman Suzan Delbene celebrated the record-breaking fundraising of House Democrats earlier this week. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty images)
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“He has a mandate that I think is unique in history. And this is not a president in the first term that will start his first medium term. I mean, this is someone who knows the American people, and they have chosen,” ” Hudson said.
He also pointed out that Democrats will defend 13 legislators whose districts have won Trump, while Republicans only had to hold three seats that voted for former vice -president Kamala Harris in 2024.
“The battlefield that is there for us who go to 2026 is preferred by Republicans,” said Hudson.
An internal Gop -Memo shared with FOX News Digital shows that the NRCC almost doubled its Grassroots Fundraising from $ 1.7 million in January 2023 to $ 3.2 million in January 2025.
“Comparison of January 2025 with earlier cycles, the NRCC stands in the upper half for fundraising and the lower half for expenses,” said the memo.
