Note: Some edits to the #KS02 race numbers from this morning.
Let’s start with a breakdown, by office and party, of the candidates for U.S. House and Senate. We’ve copy-and-pasted total raised for the quarter (July-Sept), total raised for campaign, any personal loans, and ending Cash on Hand from the Q3 REC reports.
*Jake LaTurner’s totals come from two different reports — his Senate campaign and then his House campaign. This summary reflects the total.
** Watkins loaned the campaign $300,000 in June 2018. This is noted to reflect the $250,000 which the campaign still owes.
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Now some notable points:
- All of the sitting Members of Congress did well. Your top fundraisers (total) respectively are Sharice Davids, Roger Marshall and Ron Estes, with Jake LaTurner edging himself above Watkins.
- Some serious COH for Marshall and Davids.
- LaTurner did not have a superb quarter, with about half of Watkins’s numbers. An anomaly after the race switch, or does it spell trouble for LaTurner?
- Holy moley Kris Kobach numbers! It is tough to go a week without Kobach earned press, and his great-big funder in New York City with Peter Thiel and Ann Coulter made all sorts of national political news. But then he comes in with a meager $250K? Heck, Tracey Mann’s nascent KS01 campaign topped his. And he barely beats State Senator Susan Wagle. And this is the low-hanging fruit.
- Amanda Adkins and Sara Hart Weir are neck and neck. But it just goes to show that Sharice Davids, who has no primary opponent, is going to have plenty of cash to spend in the General.
- And how about Barry Grissom’s cash?! This for the guy who the Kansas City Star said has no chance to win the General Election. And now with Republican-turned-Democrat State Sen. Barbara Bollier in the race, they may be right. But that should make it interesting. Grissom has the cash to spend, though some believe that Bollier is really the threat to the Republican nominee — especially if it is Kobach.
- And does Bollier get a “she-can-win” endorsement from Kathleen Sebelius? Bollier apparently spoke with Sebelius before deciding to run — giving the impression that Sebelius really does not plan to run, even if Kobach looks to take the nomination. Will hard-core Democrat voters care that she is only recent convert? Will they note that she isn’t on the Medicare-For-All bandwagon? Will they tire of her telling people over and over and over that she’s a doctor?
Exciting stuff!
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