Research.
Expensive for any single campaign. Cheap when shared. We do the work once, and every Republican campaign gets to use it.
A modern campaign needs research the way a modern company needs accounting. Opposition profiles, race intelligence, fundraising benchmarks, donor analysis — without these inputs, every decision is a guess.
The economics of research are unforgiving for a single campaign. A full opposition file runs into the tens of thousands of dollars; comparable-race fundraising analysis is its own retainer; rapid-response capacity is full-time staff most below-federal Republican campaigns cannot afford. So they run without — or pay a consultant for a thinner version of the same product.
Elect Republicans does the research once and shares it across every aligned race in the country. The cost is paid by the donors who underwrite the program; the candidates and committees who use it never receive an invoice.
Five programs under the Research pillar.
Free for endorsed Republican candidates. The dollar is paid by donors who underwrite the work, not by the campaigns that use it.
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Opposition Drops
PlannedA research file on every Democrat in a contested race.
Detailed opposition profiles on Democratic candidates in competitive races — public statements, voting records, financial disclosures, prior controversies, and the contradictions between them. Sourced, indexed, and packaged for any Republican campaign that needs them. The opposition file a federal campaign would pay tens of thousands of dollars for, made free for endorsed Republican candidates.
Delivers · Per-race opposition packets, refreshed whenever a Democratic candidate gives us new material.
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Race Briefings
PlannedWhere the lines are moving, race by race.
Weekly written briefings on the races that decide majorities — fundraising on both sides, voter shifts in key precincts, campaign-trail developments, the public race ratings consultants charge to interpret. Race-level intelligence that lets a campaign manager decide where the next dollar goes — and where it should not.
Delivers · Weekly briefings during cycles; monthly off-cycle.
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Rapid Response
PlannedSame-day briefings on the news that matters.
When a Democratic incumbent gives a bad speech, signs a bad bill, or steps in something on television, the response window is measured in hours. ERPAC produces messaging direction, ready-to-post social copy, and press-ready briefings the same day — written for a campaign that needs to be on the air before the news cycle moves on.
Delivers · Same-day briefings to subscribers; press-ready packets to endorsed campaigns.
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Fundraising Benchmarks
PlannedWhat strong fundraising looks like in this race.
Comparable-race benchmarks pulled from public FEC filings — what comparable Republican campaigns raised by this point in their cycle, what their Democratic opponents are pulling in this one, where the donor base is concentrated. The benchmarks that let a campaign know whether its fundraising program is on track or fooling itself.
Delivers · Quarterly benchmark reports, by race tier and seat type.
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Donor Intelligence
PlannedWho gives to whom, and why.
Aggregate analysis of public FEC and state filings — who funds Republican candidates, who funds Democratic candidates, where the giving is concentrated geographically, where the Republican donor base is growing. Surfaced as actionable intelligence for the people doing major-donor outreach.
Delivers · Donor analyses, geographic cluster reports, and outreach intelligence.
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Major-donor sponsors fund the opposition research, race analysis, and rapid-response capacity that every Republican campaign uses and most can’t afford. The intelligence is the product; the sharing is the leverage.
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