Democratic Senate candidates swamp GOP rivals in fundraising
Welcome to From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.In today’s edition, Bridget Bowman and Ben Kamisar sift through a new batch of Senate fundraising reports.Plus, Kristen Welker wraps up another week of fiery debates.
— Adam WollnerDemocratic Senate candidates swamp GOP rivals in fundraisingBy Bridget Bowman and Ben KamisarDemocratic candidates across more than a dozen competitive Senate races raised a combined $253 million from July through September, more than four times the $56 million raised by GOP candidates in those races, according to new fundraising reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.During the third quarter, Democratic candidates in these contests spent a combined $300 million, while Republicans spent nearly $84 million.
Heading into the final month of the election, Democratic candidates had $87 million on hand compared to $56 million for the Republicans.Republicans were outraised by their Democratic or independent opponents in all but one of the 15 races the NBC News Decision Desk rates as competitive, with Minnesota as the only exception.
(Megan Brand has more today on why Republicans think former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya could have an opening there against Democratic Lt.Gov.
Penny Flanagan.)Some of the widest gaps came in states where Democrats had long established themselves as prolific fundraisers.In the Texas Senate race, Democratic state Rep.
James Talarico raised $60.2 million to state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s $10.2 million.In Georgia, Democratic Sen.
Jon Ossoff raised $33.1 million while GOP Rep.Mike Collins pulled in $2.8 million.
And in Ohio, former Democratic Sen.Sherrod Brown raised $23.1 million compared to $4.8 million for Republican Sen.
John Husted.Democratic candidates’ massive fundraising advantage in some of these states, particularly those that Republicans...