Interim party chair Donna Brazile said the Democratic National Committee is "putting our resources where it matters most -- in the states." | Getty DNC to pour $5 million into Senate, House races

The Democratic National Committee is sending $2.5 million to each of the party’s Senate and House campaign committees, it will announce on Thursday, to juice its down-ballot operation as Democrats try to engineer a wave election in the Senate and House.

The move to funnel campaign money to state-level and local races comes at a cash-rich but politically delicate time for the party. While national polls show a tightening presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and an increasingly rocky path to taking back the Senate, the Clinton-led party finance operation has started humming.


Combined with the DNC and its joint arrangement with the state party committees, Clinton’s campaign brought in $143 million in August, though the DNC itself reported having just over $10 million on hand to start August (its most recent filing).

“By transferring $2.5 million to each of our campaign committees, the Democratic Party is putting our resources where it matters most — in the states,” said interim party chair Donna Brazile in a statement. “For the remaining eight weeks of this election, we’re going to out-organize and out-mobilize Republicans across the country to make sure we win more seats in the House and Senate, and elect Hillary Clinton as our next president."

Already this month the DNC has sought to project that it’s on the offensive, expanding its operations in three Republican-heavy states where Clinton sees an opportunity that could have down-ballot implications: Georgia, Arizona, and Utah.

The party committee is still digging itself out from a rough summer of its own, however, after chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned following the leak of internal emails suggesting officials had worked to support Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the primary.

And it’s not all smooth sailing for Democrats on Capitol Hill, either: Senate leaders have recently been urging Clinton to start step up her involvement in their races as some targeted states ones look more and more difficult to win by the day.