Unbiased Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s fundraising has slowed as she runs for re-election in Arizona, in keeping with a brand new marketing campaign finance report filed late Tuesday evening.
The primary-term senator raised simply $595,000 within the remaining three months of the yr, a notable drop from the third fundraising quarter, when she took in $826,000.
Fundraising for Sinema’s marketing campaign has fallen each quarter in 2023. However she nonetheless has tens of millions to spend on a doable re-election bid and ends December with $10.6 million in her marketing campaign account — a possible boon for opponents who raised considerably extra money within the fourth quarter however did not begin the marketing campaign with the identical money reserves as Sinema.
Sinema has time to make her choice earlier than 2024: the submitting deadline in Arizona is not till April. However her opponents are already filling their marketing campaign coffers.
Though they’ve but to file their fundraising reviews, the Democratic Rep. marketing campaign introduced. Ruben Gallego introduced earlier this month that he had raised $3.3 million in the latest fundraising quarter, and Republican Kari Lake introduced she raised $2.1 millionin keeping with Politico.
About half of Sinema’s fourth-quarter income got here from particular person donors. The remainder got here from PACs and different fundraising committees.
Former Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman’s dormant marketing campaign committee and his affiliated PAC transferred a mixed $9,000 to Sinema. And her submitting included at the very least one present of help from a present Senate colleague: New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s “A New Path PAC” contributed $5,000.
The Arizona senator spent almost $800,000 within the final three months of 2023. Safety prices made up a good portion of her bills, together with roughly $185,000 in security-related line objects, plus one other $77,000 for a safety car at a Chevrolet dealership in Scottsdale.
Sinema additionally spent one other $140,000 on digital promoting and a fee for a digital promoting firm, almost $36,000 on lodging and $19,000 on airfare.