Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who will be on the ballot next year as he seeks another term in what could be a precarious Senate elections environment for Democrats, has significantly outraised key Republican challengers of his, per new details.
NBC reporter Henry J. Gomez shared the news in recent days that the Brown campaign reported raising $5.8 million in the third quarter of this year, surpassing the fundraising totals of $4.1 million for the same period at the GOP primary campaigns of challengers Matt Dolan and Bernie Moreno. (That’s roughly the same amount raised by both Republicans.)
There’s a third prominent candidate in that GOP primary — Ohio’s Secretary of State Frank LaRose. There was not yet fundraising data for the third quarter federally available from the LaRose campaign for Senate by the time these other numbers were circulating. That campaign’s Statement of Organization, an establishing filing with authorities, dates towards the beginning of the third quarter (the middle of July).
“While the multi-millionaires running to take on Sherrod had to cut themselves fat checks in an attempt to buy Ohio’s Senate seat, Sherrod is building a winning coalition based on his record of fighting for Ohio workers and Dignity of Work,” Rachel Petri, campaign manager for Brown’s re-election bid, said. Like was seen with the failed Senate campaign last year by Mehmet Oz, aka Dr. Oz, those Republican contenders who do have fundraising numbers already available from the third quarter produced large sums themselves in support of their campaigns.
Per the elections data website FiveThirtyEight, the most recent polling in the Ohio Senate race showed Brown leading LaRose, Dolan, and Moreno in potential match-ups for the general election next year. The polling is from July. Democrats have been seeing other positive signs in polling recently emerging from Kentucky, where incumbent Governor Andy Beshear — a Democrat — is running for another term and leading his GOP challenger Daniel Cameron by 16 percent, an Emerson College poll said. That general election is this year.
“While the multi-millionaires running to take on Sherrod had to cut themselves fat checks in an attempt to buy Ohio’s Senate seat, Sherrod is building a winning coalition based on his record of fighting for Ohio workers and Dignity of Work,” campaign manager Rachel Petri says.
— Henry J. Gomez (@HenryJGomez) October 6, 2023
