GOP's most vulnerable senator is struggling to raise enough cash in Colorado

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By Dan Desai Martin -
July 19, 2019

Sen. Cory Gardner raised less than $2 million this quarter, compared to more than $4.3 million raised by Democrats seeking to oust him.

The Republican majority in the Senate is in danger for 2020, and Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner's lackluster fundraising totals could help Democrats regain control of the chamber.

Gardner, ranked as the nation's most vulnerable Republican senator by the Washington Post, raised less than $2 million in the past three months, according to data released Thursday by Daily Kos Elections. The five Democrats vying to oust Gardner from the Senate raised a combined $4.3 million during that same time.

"[W]hile it's still early in the election cycle, it looks like fundraising is once again a bullish indicator for Democrats' success, at least in the Senate," FiveThirtyEight's Nathanial Rakich wrote Wednesday. In competitive Senate races, which includes Colorado, "Democrats have raised $34.1 million in total contributions in the first six months of 2019, and Republicans have raised $29.3 million."

Mike Johnson, a former state senator, leads the Democratic pack in fundraising, pulling in just shy of $1.6 million this past quarter and has outraised Gardner in the past six months, even though, as Rakich notes, "incumbents usually raise more money than challengers early on."

https://shareblue.com/cory-gardner-colorado-fundraising-struggle/

[hlthe2b]

1. It is going to be with mixed feelings when I celebrate his ouster...

It is not that I don't absolutely oppose him and look forward to a humiliating defeat. Unfortunately, I'm reminded of the elderly male friend with whom I had an initially ''passionate' debate re: Gardner when he first ran, and which became heated on one occasion. Unfortunately, my friend died not that long afterward and we never got to really talk it through.

So, while Cory needs to go and without delay, I'm still going to be sad on that night...

Damn, I hate that politics has become so polarized in recent decades that this would happen.

[bearsfootball516]

2. He's toast.

A republican senator in a blue state that's getting bluer. If Hickenlooper ends his presidential campaign, runs for Senate and wins the primary, Gardner will be lucky if he keeps it within single digits.

[tazkcmo]

3. Sure but

Have they counted his rubles?

[NCjack]

4. I think he is goofing off because: a) he has rubles in the bank, and

b) McTurtle will shake down rich GOPers for him.