Mid-Day Update: April 21, 2026
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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John breaks down the news of the day, including the impressive fundraising efforts of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which raised a record $47 million in the first quarter of 2026, the ongoing legal issues surrounding the Democrat fundraising platform Act Blue and the implications of Virginia's special election referendum.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America show Midday Update for Tuesday, April 21st. Happy Tuesday, folks. |
| 0:06.2 | The National Republican Congressional Committee, also known as the NRCC, raked in a record $47 million in the first quarter for 2026, |
| 0:15.6 | topping their Marxist's stem counterparts by nearly $2 million ahead of the midterm elections. |
| 0:21.0 | Defeity sum was boosted by March fundraising by the NRCC and the highest is ever recorded |
| 0:25.3 | with $28 million in campaign, capping off the quarter for the House GOP campaign arm. |
| 0:31.9 | The NRC has raised a total of $164, just over $164 million during the current cycle, |
| 0:40.1 | has about $78 million cash on hand, |
| 0:42.9 | less than seven months to go until the midterm elections. |
| 0:47.7 | Congressional Republicans have outraised the Democrats on average for five straight quarters, |
| 0:49.7 | according to the latest data. |
| 0:53.8 | The group noted that this is the first time in a decade that they've outraised House Democrat campaign arms in the first year of an election cycle. The D-Triple-C, which is probably one of the |
| 0:59.0 | most corrupt organizations in a long time that we've seen, end of the first quarter about |
| 1:02.9 | $45 million raised. To put it all in perspective between President Trump's fundraising, |
| 1:07.4 | the NRCC, and the Senate committee for Republicans have about $808 million |
| 1:15.0 | raised where there's Democrats after their DNC debt, because they're still paying off Kamala's |
| 1:20.2 | campaign, have just about $240 million. |
| 1:24.6 | So a stark contrast there, folks, the Democrats don't donate to their own kind |
| 1:29.2 | as heavily as the Republicans do. So Texas Attorney General Ken Pax and sued Act Blue, the Democrat |
| 1:36.3 | fundraising platform for deceive Americans by lying about its donation process that allowed |
| 1:41.2 | fraudulent and foreign donations, which is exactly what the Democrats |
| 1:45.7 | accused President Trump of in 2016 with the Russia collusion hoax. This was following an internal |
| 1:50.4 | investigation that proved that Act Blue continues to process gift card donations without providing |
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