Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D) marketing campaign will report elevating almost $31 million within the third quarter of the 12 months, a record-breaking sum for one of the crucial essential Senate races within the nation this 12 months.
Brown’s marketing campaign stated in a launch Wednesday that it introduced in $30.6 million, essentially the most ever in 1 / 4 for an Ohio Senate candidate. The quantity is an enormous leap from the roughly $13 million he raised in the second quarter.
“Sherrod has a confirmed observe file preventing for Ohioans, whether or not it’s preventing for a lady’s proper to make her personal well being care choices or saving the pensions of over 100,000 Ohio employees — and that’s why he has unprecedented momentum going into the ultimate month of this marketing campaign,” Brown’s marketing campaign supervisor Rachel Petri stated within the launch.
“Sherrod and Connie are grateful to each supporter and volunteer working to ensure Sherrod can hold preventing for all Ohioans,” Petri added, referring to Brown’s spouse.
A 3-term incumbent, Brown is searching for one other time period in one of the crucial hotly contested races within the nation. He’s working towards Republican Bernie Moreno.
Democrats at present have a slender 51-49 majority within the Senate, and Republicans are already extremely prone to decide up at the least one seat in West Virginia to additional slender the hole. That makes Brown’s seat key for figuring out which occasion could have a majority within the Senate throughout the subsequent session of Congress.
Brown is one in all two incumbent Democrats working in more and more Republican-leaning states that can probably vote for former President Trump in November, together with Sen. Jon Tester in Montana.
However Brown has been performing decently properly in polling towards Moreno, with many surveys displaying him forward by a number of factors. However the race has tightened in latest weeks, and he leads by about a point and a half within the common from The Hill/Determination Desk HQ.
Brown has additionally constructed up a big fundraising benefit towards Moreno, elevating a number of occasions as a lot because the Republican candidate within the second quarter.
However the race will probably be razor-tight regardless with each events focusing their consideration on it.
Moreno’s marketing campaign has but to announce its fundraising numbers for the third quarter, the final earlier than the election.
