First on CNN: Fetterman raises $22 million in third quarter in contentious Pennsylvania Senate race

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman raised $22 million in the third quarter of 2022, according to the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor’s campaign, overshadowing what his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, said he raised over the same period.

The Pennsylvania contest to replace retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey represents one of Democrats’ best chances to flip a Senate seat this year. Polling has shown the race tightening in recent weeks, as Republicans increase their spending and home in on a trio of attack lines: Crime, the broader economy and Fetterman’s health following a stroke in May.

Fetterman is banking on his financial advantage over Oz – the Democrat has been the stronger fundraiser all cycle – to pull him through the final weeks of the midterm campaign.

Oz announced this week that he raised $17.2 million over the same three-month span ending September 30, a figure that included a $7 million personal loan. Fetterman also significantly outraised the celebrity doctor in the second quarter of the year, bringing in nearly $11 million compared with Oz’s almost $5.5 million ($3.2 million of which he loaned his campaign).

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/john-fetterman-oz-pennsylvania-senate-fundraising/index.html

[dchill]

1. He could afford to send Dr Oz on a long trip...

...to Garcinia, Cambogia!

[peppertree]

2. "Pfft," Mehmet scoffs. "I made that on my gut buster pills alone."

"And I really needed it, let me tell you."

[ificandream]

3. So $7 million of Dr. Oozie's campaign funds were his own?

That means he only raised $10.2 million.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

4. It's not a sure thing for Fetterman right now

Time to send him MORE money.