The summer months were a lackluster fundraising period for several presidential candidates. So much so that nearly a dozen White House hopefuls were even outraised by several Senate contenders — by a lot in some cases.
According to Federal Election Commission reports filed Thursday, 11 presidential current or former presidential candidates raised five or six figures in the third quarter:
Former Govs. Mike Huckabee and Martin O'Malley brought in $1.2 million each; Sen. Lindsey Graham raised $1.1 million; Gov. Bobby Jindal raised about $580,000; former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum raised $390,000; former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore raised $105,000; former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who dropped out last month, brought in $287,000; former New York Gov. George Pataki raised $153,000; former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee raised $15,000; former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb raised about $700,000; and Harvard professor Larry Lessig brought in $1 million.
Those amounts are less than the amounts most Senate candidates in tough 2016 races raised in the same time period, according to fundraising numbers announced by the campaigns.
Some of the top Senate fundraisers include Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who raised more than $2 million; New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who raised $1.6 million; former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, who raised $2.4 million; Rep. Tammy Duckworth, who raised $1.5 million for her Illinois Senate bid; Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who raised $1.4 million; and North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, who raised $1.3 million.