How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 2Q Fundraising Reports

TX-Sen:

     Rick Noriega (D): $930K raised

I’m sorry to say it, but this is yet another disappointing quarter for Noriega.

NY-13:

     Mike McMahon (D): ~$500K raised (in one month)

     Steve Harrison (D): ~$150K raised

GA-06:

     Bill Jones (D): $225K raised; $168K CoH (1/1-6/25)

     Tom Price (R-inc): $293K raised; $756K CoH (4/1-6/25)

GA-08:

     Jim Marshall (D-inc): $165K raised; $1.34M CoH (4/1-6/25)

     Rick Goddard (R): $162K raised; $459K CoH (4/1-6/25)

GA-10:

     Barry Fleming (R): $145K raised; $344K CoH (4/1-6/25)

     Paul Broun (R-inc): $289K raised; $202K CoH (4/1-6/25)

GA-12:

     John Barrow (D-inc): $263K raised; $1.02M CoH (4/1-6/25)

     John Stone (R): $67K raised; $33K CoH (4/1-6/25)

Nothing from Regina Thomas yet, but she has another 15 minutes left to file.

AL-02:

     Harri Anne Smith (R): $169K raised; $100K CoH (5/15-6/25)

     Jay Love (R): $151K raised; $164K CoH (5/15-6/25)

AL-05:

     Wayne Parker (R): $115K raised; $46K CoH (5/15-6/25)

     Cheryl Baswell Guthrie (R): $149K raised; $5K CoH (5/15-6/25)

UPDATE:

GA-13:

     Deborah “The Defrauder” Honeycutt (R-inc): $976K raised; $845K spent; $337K CoH

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94 thoughts on “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 2Q Fundraising Reports”

  1. Glad to see McMahon’s exceptionally high numbers.  Also hoping to see Smith pull off the upset over Love. Do these figures include personal loans?  Very dissapointed in Noriega’s numbers.  apprehensively waiting for Regina Thomas’s numbers.

  2. Mikal Watts was willing to put more than $10 million of his own money into the Senate race in Texas, instead he dropped out of the primary in part because of the fetish some in the netroots have with running vets led them to get behind Noreiga, who is a much weaker candidate, and not much more progressive.

    Without a Texan at the top of the ticket, and with Cornyn now seeming more and more the unpopular buffoon, we would have had a serious shot at this seat. At minimum, Watts could have forced to RSCC to waste money in Texas to the benefit of Tom Allen, etc.

    Watts would have won the primary if he had stayed in, but he isn’t THAT rich, and it would have cost him a lot of money. A united party and a cheap primary might have been enough to put him over the top, but Watts saw that winning a close, expensive primary against a hispanic candidate would have weakened him and divided the party enough that winning the general would have been unlikely.

    In the future I hope we can unite behind self-funders in expensive long-shot races like TX-Sen absent some very serious flaw.

  3. Noriega need to rais 930K per week, not per quarter.

    It just goes to show how bad the bench must be for Texas Democrats.  I just don’t more than a four or five seat gain

    in the Senate.  I just don’t think Schumer recruited as well as he did in 2006.  

  4. What’s with Thomas? I want to see those numbers.

    Also. Disappointing numbers for Noriega. That would be a fantastic number for say Kleeb in Nebraska which is a small state with a cheap media market but for Noriega is super expensive Texas that’s disappointing.

    If he wins it’s going to be a huge upset. He has the right profile but just can’t raise money.

  5. That’s too much of his money on-line. He must not be really raising any outside of the netroots. Maybe those two-weeks off hurt him.

    I thought they would come in at about 2 mil this quarter.

    If he only puts up 2 mil total it’s going to be a tough road to hoe.

  6. isn’t $165K rather low for a very vulnerable incumbent in a Republican leaning district with a well funded challenger?  His cash on hand is still good, though.

  7. I know everybody wants to see Texas in the bag and that more than a few of you are sophisticated enough to be wary of symptoms of poor/weak fundraising.  In this particular instance, use netroots clout to press the Noriega campaign to step up its fundraising, but… keep the faith!

    I know for a fact that the Noriega campaign has stepped up its fundraising efforts.  Unfortunately, it hasn’t been in time to show up by the June 30th reporting deadline.  But it is real and there is a lot of potential to be tapped.

    In response to the question about whether the campaign is fundraising beyond the netroots, yes, it is!  I know that Noriega is making the calls that he should, the campaign is doing events throughout the state, and the campaign is doing telefundraising.

    Can the campaign do more?  Probably.  But I would encourage the netroots make its (justified) criticisms constructive.  Don’t just bitch and whine.  If you see weaknesses, point them out and provide suggestions if possible.

    Texas Democrats like Noriega are victims of the Texas Repug gerrymandering.  Because they have been thrown into highly concentrated Democratic districts, they have not had to learn important campaign skills like fundraising like they would have had to if they were in more competitive general elections.  The best use of our criticisms is to steer him and his campaign through a crash course on fundraising if we have viable suggestions to make.

    This race is too important to write off!  The Obama campaign, for their own reasons, has decided to not write off Texas.  We shouldn’t either in regards to this Senate race.

    1. the only way a race like this sees 10 million is if everything is going our way.  I’d like to wait out the remaining fundraising reports from the rest of our candidates before really strating to speculate where the money will be spent and where it won’t.  

    1. I think that when push comes to shove, the DSCC has to spend money in a state like Texas.  Maybe not a ton of money, but they have got to work to start establishing the future there.  Ultimately, with the weakness of Cornyn, the DSCC is going to have no choice but to try to win this race.  

      How much money ends up here is going to depends on what the other options are.  That is what I will not speculate on at this time.  

  11.    I think Rice now has a better chance of winning than does Noriega.  Rice is a good fundraiser and has done an excellent job of building his favorables.  He’s running in inexpensive media markets in a state which elects Democrats to statewide office frequently.  Rice is a true blue progressive running against the worst senator there is, Inhofe.  Rice has the right resume to win, and as crisitunity showed, his election would be the biggest improvement of any senate race.

  13. What did you guys think about the “Big Bad John” campaign ad that the Cornyn campaign showed at the Texas GOP convention a few weeks ago?

    My take was that it was corny, ridiculous and downright stupid. To me Cornyn seemed fake all dressed up in that cowboy outfit.

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