February 03, 2026 12:42 PM UTC

Congressional Fundraising Roundup (Q4 2025)

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• by: Colorado Pols

We’ve already discussed Q4 2025 fundraising reports for U.S. Senate and the fourth congressional district, so we’ll round things out with a quick rundown of the numbers from Colorado’s other notable federal races.

CO-08 (North Metro Denver)

Freshman Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Morgan) is the most vulnerable GOP incumbent in the country. His fundraising numbers from Q4 2025 once again reflect that precarious position:

For all of Evans’ faults as a candidate — so many faults — he has been very disciplined on the fundraising front. Evans continues to put up solid fundraising quarters, and his campaign has been disciplined about limiting its expenditures. This won’t likely be enough to save Evans in a toss-up district that is trending in the wrong direction for Republicans, but it will at least force national Democrats to spend a lot of money on whichever Democrat emerges from the June Primary Election.

As for those Democrats, Manny Rutinel and Shannon Bird are treading water for the most part, though Rutinel is slowly pulling away on the more important “cash on hand” figure. Evan Munsing, meanwhile, appears to be struggling to keep his head above the surface [hey, let’s keep the analogy consistent] with an 83% burn rate in Q4.

CO-05 (Colorado Springs)

We have ourselves a race in Colorado Springs! After another impressive fundraising quarter, Democrat Jessica Killin now has the cash-on-hand lead over incumbent Republican Rep. Jeff Crank, who seems to have adopted the old Doug Lamborn strategy of closing your eyes and hoping that Republicans just vote for the “R” in November.

CO-03 (Western Slope, Southern Colorado)

The “Bread Sandwich” — freshman Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-Grand Junction) — is opening up a sizable fundraising lead on his challengers after the fourth quarter of 2025.

Hurd’s overall fundraising isn’t particularly impressive, but the story here is that Democrat Alex Kelloff had a 95% burn rate on a weak overall quarter for contributions. Hurd’s Republican challenger, former State GOP Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman, is barely keeping the lights on.

CO-01 (Denver)

Once again, Democratic challengers to longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette have failed to clear a ridiculously-low bar on the fundraising front.

DeGette isn’t raising jack shit for her re-election campaign, but she doesn’t need to worry about money when her challengers are even more financially inept. Wanda James posted an astounding 106% burn rate in Q4, which is sorta like using an ATM and trying to stuff bills back inside the machine. Melat Kiros, meanwhile, is being robbed blind by her advisers; Michael Whitehorn’s “MAC Group Consulting” billed the Kiros campaign $18,750 in Q4 — which is just slightly more than the $18,585 she netted overall after three months of fundraising.