Chuck Schumer offers up $15 million to bolster Democratic Senate campaigns

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is infusing $15 million from his own Senate campaign coffers to bolster Democratic Senate incumbents and candidates running in key battleground states in November's midterm elections that will determine majority control of the chamber.

Schumer's campaign will donate $5 million to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is the Senate Democrats re-election arm. 

In addition, Schumer's transferring $1 million each to the victory funds of Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Mark Kelly of Arizona, with $500,000 apiece to Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado and Patty Murray of Washington State.

The longtime senator from New York will also give $1 million each to five Democratic Senate nominees - Rep. Val Demings of Florida, former state Supreme Court Justice Cheri Beasley of North Carolina, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes of Wisconsin, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio, and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., responds to questions from reporters during a press conference, at the U.S.Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Democratic sources confirmed to Fox News the word of Schumer's cash transfers, which were first reported earlier Tuesday by Politico.

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The Senate is currently split 50/50 between the two major parties, but the Democrats control the majority thanks to the tie breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris through her constitutional role as president of the Senate. 

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman speaks to a crowd gathered at aa United Steel Workers of America Labor Day event with President Joe Biden in West Mifflin, Pa., just outside Pittsburgh, Monday Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke) (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

That means Republicans need a net gain of just one seat in November’s midterms to regain the majority they lost when they were swept in Georgia’s twin Senate runoff elections on Jan. 5, 2021. 

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The move by Schumer, which comes with just eight weeks to go until the autumn elections, follows the ramping up of a massive spending spree by Senate Leadership Fund, the top outside group supporting GOP incumbents and candidates.

Senate Leadership Fund, which is aligned with longtime GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, has said it's spending $190 million this cycle. And  One Nation, the group's sister nonprofit public advocacy organization, dished out nearly $60 million so far this year in Senate races.