NM-Sen: Udall Has More CoH than Pearce, Wilson Combined

Crossposted at New Mexico FBIHOP

It looks like Tom Udall is the big winner of the money race again.  

His campaign sent out a press release minutes ago touting the fact that he will enter the general election with $2,876,030 cash on hand.  Nearly three million dollars cash on hand — before June.

From the release:

Udall reported total expenses of $431,865 and finished the period with $2,876,030 cash-on-hand.

This is the third consecutive reporting period Udall has outraised both of his potential GOP opponents combined. He reported a strong total of over $1.3 million in the first quarter of 2008, which ended March 31, and in the final months of 2007 he raised over $1 million.

Not only did Udall raise more money than both combined, his cash on hand advantage is tremendous.  

The AP reported on the numbers from Pearce and Wilson.  

Pearce’s campaign spent more than $964,000 from April 1 to May 14, according to a fundraising summary released today by his campaign.

Wilson spent more than $776,000 during the same period.

Wilson, however, has a larger stockpile of campaign cash for the closing weeks of the hotly contested race.  Her campaign cash balance stood at $712,476 as of last week; Pearce reported $247,207 cash on hand.

Pearce raised about $357,000 during the latest campaign finance reporting period, and Wilson received contributions of about $291,000.

Combined,t he two have a cash on hand balance of just $959,683 heading into the general election — and with lots of money being spent by the two on television ads in the final days leading up to the primary, it’s not  of the realm of possibility that the winner could come out of the race actually in debt.

Even if the numbers stay where they are now, Udall has three times the cash on hand of Wilson and Pearce — combined.  Well, actually 2.996854 times the money of the two Republicans combined.

Not the way one wants to start the general election.