As fundraising data emerges and circulates from the third quarter of this year, which ended September 30, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), who is running for another term next year in a state known as competitive, has set a record.
As relayed by The Nevada Independent, Rosen’s campaign is reporting a total in cash on hand — meaning available money — at the close of the quarter of $8.8 million. And such is evidently a record in Nevada for this stage of a relevant election cycle, with a little over a year before Election Day. The total that Rosen’s campaign pulled in from fundraising specifically in the third quarter was $2.7 million, just below what other Democrats running for Senate in known competitive states raised in the same period. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), running to replace the retiring Democrat Debbie Stabenow, neared $3 million, while Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.)’s fundraising reached $3.2 million in the same campaign period.
Rosen currently faces a crowded field of Republicans in Nevada’s Senate primaries, though a veteran named Sam Brown is favored by certain leading interests in the GOP. Brown also ran in the GOP primary for Senate in the state in 2022, losing to Adam Laxalt, who went on to lose the general election to incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D). Control of the Senate will be again at stake, with Democrats holding just a two-seat lead in the chamber and needing to defend next year a slew of seats in states known for being competitive or leaning towards the GOP. There’s more good fundraising news for Democrats in one such environment, with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) recently announcing a fundraising total from the third quarter that surpassed two of the high-profile Republicans in that state’s ongoing Senate primaries.
Other vulnerable Democratic Party-held — or aligned — seats will be on the ballot in Montana and Arizona, besides elsewhere.
