June 17, 2024 01:10 PM UTC

Four Races + 16 Candidates = Shockingly Bad Fundraising Numbers

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• by: Colorado Pols

Last week we got a peek at the last batch of federal fundraising numbers that will be available before the June 25th Primary Election in Colorado. There is a very obvious theme that emerges when you peruse the numbers: Republican candidates for Congress aren’t raising squat — particularly by comparison to their Democratic counterparts.

Take a look at these fundraising TOTALS for the entire 2024 election cycle:

Now, compare these numbers to the fundraising totals of just TWO Democratic candidates: Adam Frisch in CO-03 and Rep. Yadira Caraveo in CO-08:

The 16 candidates running in four Republican Primary Elections have raised a combined total of $8,624,917.

If you remove Boebert from that total, the other 15 candidates have raised $4,843,742 — or about one-fourth of what Frisch and Caraveo have raised combined. About $1 million of that total also comes from candidate loans, so the 15 Republicans not named Boebert are really getting less than $4 million in contributions from other people.

It’s true that these numbers don’t account for money being spent in these races by outside committees, particularly Americans for Prosperity (or by the Colorado Republican Party itself, in the case of Dave Williams). But these figures also don’t account for third-party money that will be spent to help Frisch and Caraveo later this summer and into the fall.

By every metric, the Colorado Republican Party is a complete mess. Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that GOP candidates for Congress are having trouble outraising candidates for State Senate in Colorado.