On Tuesday, we brought you our quarterly House fundraising roundup, in which we gathered up fundraising numbers for the 94 races that we are rating as competitive, including various incumbent-on-incumbent races. As usual, we'll take a look at which challengers outraised incumbents, and which have more cash-on-hand than the members of Congress they're trying to unseat.
First up, the challengers who beat their opponents in the third quarter of the year (all numbers in thousands). We are making one methodological change; you can call it the "Pete Coors" effect: we're now including transfers from other committees and excluding self-funded totals, both of which are counted as part of the "topline" total amount raised (this is distinguished from self loans, which are not). You can click column headers to sort:
CD |
Challenger |
Party |
Raised |
Incumbent |
Party |
Raised |
CA-07 |
Ami Bera |
(D) |
730 |
Dan Lungren |
(R) |
510 |
CA-09 |
Ricky Gill |
(R) |
727 |
Jerry McNerney |
(D) |
523 |
CA-10 |
Jose Hernandez |
(D) |
493 |
Jeff Denham |
(R) |
317 |
CA-36 |
Raul Ruiz |
(D) |
540 |
Mary Bono Mack |
(R) |
381 |
FL-10 |
Val Demings |
(D) |
503 |
Daniel Webster |
(R) |
207 |
FL-16 |
Keith Fitzgerald |
(D) |
468 |
Vern Buchanan |
(R) |
227 |
FL-26 |
Joe Garcia |
(D) |
431 |
David Rivera |
(R) |
122 |
IA-02 |
John Archer |
(R) |
417 |
Dave Loebsack |
(D) |
312 |
IL-08 |
Tammy Duckworth |
(D) |
1508 |
Joe Walsh |
(R) |
254 |
IL-11 |
Bill Foster |
(D) |
642 |
Judy Biggert |
(R) |
624 |
KY-06 |
Andy Barr |
(R) |
804 |
Ben Chandler |
(D) |
504 |
MA-06 |
Richard Tisei |
(R) |
646 |
John Tierney |
(D) |
508 |
MD-06 |
John Delaney |
(D) |
399 |
Roscoe Bartlett |
(R) |
208 |
MN-08 |
Rick Nolan |
(D) |
484 |
Chip Cravaack |
(R) |
462 |
NC-08 |
Richard Hudson |
(R) |
512 |
Larry Kissell |
(D) |
220 |
NH-01 |
Carol Shea-Porter |
(D) |
675 |
Frank Guinta |
(R) |
363 |
NH-02 |
Annie Kuster |
(D) |
725 |
Charlie Bass |
(R) |
472 |
NY-11 |
Mark Murphy |
(D) |
323 |
Mike Grimm |
(R) |
249 |
NY-18 |
Sean Maloney |
(D) |
926 |
Nan Hayworth |
(R) |
573 |
NY-19 |
Julian Schreibman |
(D) |
537 |
Chris Gibson |
(R) |
388 |
PA-06 |
Manan Trivedi |
(D) |
436 |
Jim Gerlach |
(R) |
334 |
PA-12 |
Keith Rothfus |
(R) |
543 |
Mark Critz |
(D) |
501 |
UT-04 |
Mia Love |
(R) |
999 |
Jim Matheson |
(D) |
469 |
VA-02 |
Paul Hirschbiel |
(D) |
352 |
Scott Rigell |
(R) |
311 |
Of this list of 24, 17 are Democrats; this makes sense since again, there are more vulnerable Republicans. (Pete Coors, the Republican in CO-07 is not on this list. While on paper, his $1.77 million haul dwarfs incumbent Dem Ed Perlmutter's $725k, $1.35 million of Coors' total was self-funded. Excluding his self-funding, Coors raised "only" $417k, explaining why he isn't on this list. CO-07 is the only race affected by the exclusion of self-funded amounts.)
Next up is an even more elite crew, the ten challengers (six Democrats, 4 Republicans) who have banked more cash than the incumbents they're facing ("CoH" = cash-on-hand):
CD |
Challenger |
Party |
CoH |
Incumbent |
Party |
CoH |
CA-09 |
Ricky Gill |
(R) |
1,146 |
Jerry McNerney |
(D) |
1,038 |
IL-08 |
Tammy Duckworth |
(D) |
763 |
Joe Walsh |
(R) |
592 |
MD-06 |
John Delaney |
(D) |
249 |
Roscoe Bartlett |
(R) |
221 |
MI-01 |
Gary McDowell |
(D) |
604 |
Dan Benishek |
(R) |
571 |
NH-02 |
Annie Kuster |
(D) |
922 |
Charlie Bass |
(R) |
752 |
NY-18 |
Sean Maloney |
(D) |
855 |
Nan Hayworth |
(R) |
785 |
NY-25 |
Maggie Brooks |
(R) |
857 |
Louise Slaughter |
(D) |
411 |
OH-06 |
Charlie Wilson |
(D) |
440 |
Bill Johnson |
(R) |
388 |
RI-01 |
Brendan Doherty |
(R) |
510 |
David Cicilline |
(D) |
241 |
UT-04 |
Mia Love |
(R) |
457 |
Jim Matheson |
(D) |
307 |
Finally, we've conducted similar analyses for the five remaining incumbent-vs.-incumbent matchups, three of which are intra-party (thanks to California's top-two system and the Louisiana jungle "primary"). Head below the fold for our charts.
Here's 3Q fundraising:
CD |
Incumbent |
Party |
Raised |
Incumbent |
Party |
Raised |
CA-30 |
Howard Berman |
(D) |
716 |
Brad Sherman |
(D) |
225 |
CA-44 |
Janice Hahn |
(D) |
179 |
Laura Richardson |
(D) |
7 |
IA-03 |
Tom Latham |
(R) |
487 |
Leonard Boswell |
(D) |
300 |
LA-03 |
Charles Boustany |
(R) |
602 |
Jeff Landry |
(R) |
404 |
OH-16 |
Betty Sutton |
(D) |
594 |
Jim Renacci |
(R) |
551 |
And here's cash:
CD |
Incumbent |
Party |
CoH |
Incumbent |
Party |
CoH |
CA-30 |
Brad Sherman |
(D) |
1,848 |
Howard Berman |
(D) |
394 |
CA-44 |
Janice Hahn |
(D) |
132 |
Laura Richardson |
(D) |
68 |
IA-03 |
Tom Latham |
(R) |
1,510 |
Leonard Boswell |
(D) |
226 |
LA-03 |
Charles Boustany |
(R) |
1,268 |
Jeff Landry |
(R) |
755 |
OH-16 |
Betty Sutton |
(D) |
1,214 |
Jim Renacci |
(R) |
1,021 |