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The Biden-Harris reelection campaign announced on Monday it has $117 million on hand, in what aides claim is the largest sum for any Democratic candidate in history at this point in the race. The president and vice president’s team said it raised more than $97 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. The total includes fundraising efforts by the campaign, joint fundraising committees and the Democratic National Committee. In the third quarter of 2023, the Biden-Harris campaign announced it raised more than $71 million, and had nearly $91 million cash on hand. The team raised more than $72 million in...

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has laid a fundraising infrastructure that helped him rake in nearly $6 million in the last two years, according to a person familiar with his fundraising operation, as the moderate Republican toys with a White House bid in 2024. [cut] he has compiled an initial war chest of around $6 million, raising money as he left office in Maryland after two terms as a Republican governor in a blue state. Hogan has long been a foil of former President Trump and is one of a number of moderate Republicans who could look to oppose the...

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A few wealthy, anonymous donors funded a liberal activist group working on the failed recall of Wisconsin’s governor, Watchdog.org has learned. Nearly 75 percent of the money funneled into the Center for Media and Democracy during 2011 and 2012 came from just a few donors whose names have been redacted from tax forms obtained by Watchdog. CMD has said, “Most of CMD’s supporters are individual donors who give $5 or more a year to help support the Center’s general operations.” Those “operations” included contributing to the unsuccessful but expensive effort by liberals and labor unions to unseat GOP Gov. Scott...

HOCKESSIN, Delaware - In a sign that his campaign is in need of fresh funds, Newt Gingrich on Monday began charging $50 to have a photograph taken with him following a campaign speech to Republican County groups here in the northernmost part of the state. It was the first time the former House speaker has charged those attending one of his public speaking events to pose for a photograph with him. Lately, a member of his campaign staff has been snapping photographs of any interested attendee and later posting them online at the campaign's website, newt.org. On Monday night, those...

U.S. senator raises half-million dollars in second quarter WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham raised more than a half-million dollars in the second quarter of this year, pushing his campaign war chest above $4 million. Among the 21 Republican senators seeking re-election next year, only Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky -- the GOP Senate leader -- and John Cornyn of Texas reported having more cash on hand, as of June 30, than the $4,040,396 in Graham's campaign account.

Allen holds huge money edge on WebbGOP senator banks $6.6 million as rival reports $424,245 Republican U.S. Sen. George Allen holds a huge fundraising advantage over his Democratic opponent, Jim Webb, in the Senate race in Virginia. Reports filed yesterday with the Federal Election Commission show that Allen ended June with $6.6 million in the bank, while Webb had $424,245 in cash on hand.

President Bush, Laura Bush, and others close to the president, such as Karl Rove, have raised $189 million so far for the November elections, according to Republican sources. That figure is more than twice the amount the Bush team raised for congressional races during the entire 2002 election cycle. The funds were raised at 136 events, including 44 attended by Bush himself. The money went to the Republican National Committee, congressional campaign committees, and individual Republican candidates. Overall, Republicans continue to hold a strong lead over Democrats in fund raising. According to Federal Election Commission reports for June, the RNC...

SANTA FE— Gov. Bill Richardson raised more than a half-million dollars for his re-election bid during the past month and has stockpiled $5.7 million in his campaign account for the upcoming general election race. The Democratic governor holds a huge fundraising advantage over Republican J.R. Damron, who reported a $43,827 cash balance in his campaign as of Tuesday— a week before the primary election. According to a campaign finance report filed Thursday, Richardson collected $553,084 in contributions from May 2 through May 30. His campaign spent $415,371 and has a cash balance of $5.7 million. Damron, a Santa Fe radiologist,...

Meehan leads US House with campaign funds Representative Martin T. Meehan has gained national exposure in recent years as a champion of efforts to reduce the influence of money in politics. Now, the Lowell Democrat is poised to achieve a new distinction: He is days away from becoming the only House member in the nation with a campaign war chest that tops $5 million, with an eye on a possible run for the Senate. some $2 million more than any of the other 434 House members, and $2.7 million more than any of the nine other representatives from Massachusetts.... With...

In the wake of Governor Schwarzenegger’s efforts to do exactly what the populace of the Golden State theoretically elected him to do when they voted him into Sacramento to replace Gov. Gray Davis a while back—that is, to initiate practical reform in California—I’d like to suggest that the power-hungry, Democratic Party-controlled unions in this state use whatever money they have left in their war chests and call attention to the need for just one more special election. This time around, let’s see if they (the unions) might be successful in passing a proposition that officially lists the state motto as...

A federal judge in San Jose refused Wednesday to restrain the California Teachers Association from bolstering its political campaign account by imposing an annual $60 surcharge on its members for the next three years. U.S. District Court Judge James Ware's decision in a case filed by the Virginia-based Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation probably will allow the teachers union to raise and spend upwards of $50 million to contest Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's special election initiatives slated for the Nov. 8 ballot, representatives of both sides in the lawsuit said. "This is fantastic," CTA chief counsel Beverly Tucker said. "We...

SACRAMENTO — Democratic Senate leader Don Perata of Oakland has paid legal defense costs averaging about $115,000 monthly as the FBI probes whether he received outside income for legislative work. State campaign finance records available Tuesday also showed Perata was $260,000 in debt as of June 30, despite receiving contributions of more than $320,000 since establishing a legal defense fund in February. Reports filed with the secretary of state's office also showed that: -Candidates and promoters of the November special election initiatives have raised more than $115 million they can use in campaigns this year and beyond. -Though Republican Gov....

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican National Committee began the month with a 6-to-1 financial advantage over its Democratic counterpart, with $16.5 million in the bank compared to the Democratic National Committee's $2.6 million. The RNC raised $10.5 million in January, according to its monthly report to the Federal Election Commission. The GOP spent $8.7 million, including a $1 million transfer to Senate Republicans' fund-raising committee and nearly $1 million in telemarketing, according to an analysis by Political Money Line, a nonpartisan campaign finance tracking service.

President Bush and the Republican National Committee spent a combined $707 million this election cycle after a fund-raising effort so prolific the president's campaign still has millions left over. Bush finished the Nov. 2 election with $4.4 million left in his $75 million, taxpayer-financed general election campaign fund and $1 million in bills to pay. He had $15 million in a legal compliance fund that he could have tapped in the event of a recount fight, according to reports he filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission. The president also detailed the money raised and spent by his record-breaking primary...

Did other Democrats out there feel the surge of anger I felt when the e-mail from John Kerry came into our in-boxes the other day? "Dear Matt," it began, before "personally" thanking me for having transformed American politics. But there was more: John Kerry was writing to say he'll fight on. "This is not a time for Democrats to retreat ... it is a time to stand firm." And JFK's New Firmness will debut when he introduces a bill on the first day Congress is in session next year to provide every child in America health insurance - a call...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under friendly fire, Sen. John Kerry likely will donate a substantial portion of his excess presidential campaign cash to help elect Democratic candidates in 2005 and 2006, advisers said Thursday. Party leaders, including some of Kerry's top campaign aides, said this week they were surprised and angry to learn that he had more than $15 million in accounts from the Democratic primaries. They demanded to know why the money wasn't spent to help Kerry defeat President Bush or to aid congressional candidates. There were no easy answers to those questions, officials close to Kerry acknowledged Thursday, but...

Democrats question Kerry's campaign nest egg WASHINGTON Democratic Party leaders want to know why John Kerry ended his presidential run with more than 15 (m) million dollars in the bank. They say the money could have helped spell victory in the race for president -- or made a difference in other tight races across the country. One high-ranking member of the Democratic National Committee says word of Kerry's nest egg has stirred anger, and could hurt his chances of putting an ally into the party leadership. Three former Kerry campaign aides said they were surprised and disappointed to learn that...

A national newspapers sold in airports all over the country with letters starting with the abbreviation for United States of America has a story that John Kerry still has $15 million in his campaign fund and the Democratic National Committee wants to know why he did not spend it against Bush or donate it to other Democratic candidates down the line. Let the recriminations begin! The newspaper can be found on the web, think abbreviation for our country plus the word meaning this 24 hour period. (The newspaper has complained to Free Republic about links to its stories as a...

Democratic Party leaders said Wednesday they want to know why Sen. John Kerry ended his presidential campaign with more than $15 million in the bank, money that could have helped Democratic candidates across the country. Some said he will be pressured to give the money to Democratic campaign committees rather than save it for a potential White House bid in 2008. "Democrats are questioning why he sat on so much money that could have helped him defeat George Bush or helped down-ballot races, many of which could have gone our way with a few more million dollars," said Donna Brazile,...