Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman doubled his last quarterly fundraising haul, bringing in $22 million over the previous three months, his campaign said Thursday.
The Pennsylvania lieutenant governor’s fundraising number tops that of his GOP competitor, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who reported $17.2 million, including a $7 million personal loan, between July and September.
“This is by far the most money any Pennsylvania Senate candidate has ever raised in one quarterly fundraising period,” Fetterman’s campaign said in a statement.
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Fetterman campaign manager Joe Calvello noted that the majority came from small-dollar donations.
“None of it — let alone 40% of it — was self-funded. In Q3 alone we had: 595,000 donations, 330,000 unique donors. That’s what real grassroots support looks like,” he tweeted.
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The race is seen as one of the most high-stakes contests in the nation in terms of which party will hold the majority in the upper chamber next year, and it has become increasingly contentious as Election Day approaches.
Recent polling shows Fetterman with a slight edge over Oz, and nonpartisan political handicapper Cook Political Report rates the race as a “toss-up.”
