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OUR RESULTS
​2023-2024
We raised more than $12,000,000 for candidates and groups in the ’24 election cycle.
Democrats picked up one seat but lost the House by 7,500 votes in three districts.
Of the 39 House races we recommended, 23 won (60%). 77% of the funds we raised for the House went to races that were decided by 5% or less. Nationally 37 races fell into this category. Force Multiplier was involved in 26 of them.
Democrats lost the Senate majority, but won four seats in states carried by Trump.
Of the 8 Senate races we recommended, 4 won (50%), all of them in states won by Trump. 82% of the funds raised for the Senate went to races that were decided by 5% or less. Nationally six races fell into this category. Force Multiplier was involved in all of them.
Mobilization of infrequent voters cut losses but fell short.
Force Multiplier also supported a national effort to reach and turn out infrequent voters in seven battleground states in partnership with America Votes. In non-battleground states, the swing to Republicans was 6.6%. In battleground states, the work of the Harris campaign, America Votes and many other groups, limited it to 3.1%.
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Results from Previous Cycles:
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2017-2018:
We helped Flip the House
We focused exclusively on 15 House candidates challenging incumbent Republicans. 13 of the 15 (87%) won + helped Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives. 89% of the funds we raised went to races in which the margin of victory was 7% or less. We raised $700,000 + our community grew to 1,200.
2019-2020:
We helped Hold the House, Flip the Senate + Win the White House
We expanded our work to include candidates for the Senate + voter empowerment groups working in Presidential and Senatorial battleground states. We raised $6.3 million and our community grew to 10,000 contributors.
Holding the House
We raised $1.2 million for our House candidates. In a year in which the Democrats lost 11 seats, we helped defend 11 and flip one, helping to preserve the majority. In total, we supported 22 candidates, 12 of whom won. 87% of funds raised through Force Multiplier went to races that were decided by less than 7%. We also supported many candidates in competitive races who were unable to retain their seats in the face of heavy Republican turnout with Trump on the ballot.
Flipping the Senate
We raised $2.8 million for 9 Senate candidates, 7 of them in states Trump won in 2018. In a hyper-partisan election in which ticket splitting was uncommon, we helped flip three seats (CO and two in GA), enough to gain narrow control of the Senate. In total, three of our candidates won and six lost. 65% of funds raised went to races in which the margin of victory was 7% or less.
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Turning the White House Blue
We raised $2.2 million to mobilize voters + protect the vote. We funded voter empowerment efforts through the Movement Voter Project, supporting more than 60 locally led grassroots groups in seven key states: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina + Georgia. The five states that flipped in the Presidential election were in this group, as were the two seats that flipped to give us control of the Senate + the only House seat that flipped to help us Hold the House.
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Our voter protection work with Fair Fight and the DSCC Legal Fund also helped ensure strong turnout in the face of the pandemic and aggressive voter suppression.
2021-2022:
We helped to expand the Senate majority + prevent a red wave in the House
We raised over $8.0 million this cycle and our community remained steady at 11,000.
Narrowly Losing the House
During a cycle in which Democrats had to defend a narrow 5 seat majority, House districts were redrawn with significant Republican gerrymandering. Force Multiplier supported 35 candidates, 23 (66%) of whom won and 12 of whom lost. 85% of the funds we raised went to candidates in races in which the margin of victory was 7% or less. While losing the majority, Democrats bucked historical midterm trends, giving up just 10 seats.
Expanding the Senate Majority
We supported 8 candidates, 4 of them incumbents, 3 running for open seats and 1 challenger. 5 of them (63%) won, increasing the Democratic majority to 51. One hundred percent of our funds went to Senate races in which the margin of victory was 7% or less.
Ensuring that People Can + Do Vote
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Increase Democratic Turnout in the Midterms: We partnered with America Votes to support 35 grassroots groups in 7 Senate battleground states that focused on mobilizing the 25 million “blue surge” voters who turned out to repudiate Trumpism in 2018 and 2020 but who had not voted in 2016. Collectively these groups knocked on over 3 million doors.
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Outreach to Rural Voters: Because many of our priority states have significant rural populations, we partnered with the Rural Democracy Initiative to support 7 groups through the Rural Victory Fund.
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Register, Educate + Mobilize Voters: Our tax-exempt Democracy in Action fund supported 6 locally-led groups in AZ, NV, GA, NC, PA and WI.
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Fight Gerrymandering: We supported The National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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