Minnesota Democrats begin midterm election season with cash advantage

Minnesota Democrats are beginning the midterm election season with a significant cash advantage over Republicans, according to Minnesota campaign finance data released Wednesday.

In the first 62 days of her campaign for Minnesota governor, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar raised $4.8 million — a total that suggests she will have a staggering cash advantage over her Republican opponents. Klobuchar, after spending over $1.3 million on digital advertising, campaign consulting and travel, has about $3.4 million cash on hand, according to campaign finance data.

The data released Wednesday includes money spent and raised from Jan. 1 through March 31 of this year. Klobuchar began raising money on Jan. 29, the day she launched her campaign.

House Speaker Lisa Demuth, a leading candidate for the GOP nomination for governor, raised over $225,000 in the first quarter this year. She has over $540,000 in cash on hand. There is also a new political action committee affiliated with Demuth’s campaign called Restore Sanity, which raised over $1.2 million during the first quarter of this year, according to campaign finance data. Nearly $1.1 million of that was donated by billionaire-backed Restoration of America PAC.



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