Top GOP House Candidate Outraises Dem Incumbent Two Consecutive Quarters

George Logan narrowly lost in 2022, when he was vastly outraised; now, he's turning the tables on CAIR's favorite congresswoman

While a lot of eyes are on the money race for the White House, which will see historic levels of spending by a panoply of left-wing dark money groups, beyond just the hundreds of millions of dollars that President Joe Biden will raise, Republicans are seeing green in some light blue parts of America.

Following my report breaking the fundraising numbers of Derrick Anderson in Virginia’s 7th District, it turns out that another top GOP recruit is also raising boatloads of money–and taking the Democratic incumbent to fundraising school in the process.

(READ: EXCLUSIVE: Top GOP House Candidate Rolls Out Massive Fundraising Numbers)

Over in Connecticut’s 5th District, Republican George Logan is, like Anderson, back for a second crack at the apple–and he’s once again outraised the incumbent, Congresswoman Jahana Hayes. In the first three months of 2024, Logan raised $593,618 to Hayes’s $568,866.83. In 2022, Logan was outraised by almost 3-to-1, and lost by fewer than 2,000 votes in a year that ended up Red Wave-less. 

This time around, polling already shows a neck-and-neck race. The NRCC released a poll late last year that showed 43% of voters backing Hayes, 41% backing Logan, and a whopping 16% who are still undecided. Fortunately for Logan as he heads into November, he led at that time among independent and unaffiliated voters–now, it looks like he’ll have the money to keep his message on-air whenever he needs it.

Now, he’s raising far more than Hayes, who has seemingly spent more time with groups too anti-Semitic for the Biden White House. Remember that the national head of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who Connecticut chapter Hayes met with, said that “Allah willing,” Biden will lose, as I’ve previously reported. 

This time around, the totals were closer–last quarter, Logan absolutely smoked Hayes on fundraising, raking in $426,088.37 to Hayes’s $282,497.14. Last quarter, Logan topped Hayes by almost $150,000; this quarter, he outraised her by about $30,000.

There’s no doubt that Biden is raising stratospheric amounts of money, but the GOP has gotten a lot of good news on the fundraising front–look no further than Ken Griffin going all-out to elect Larry Hogan as Maryland’s next senator.