In the first two weeks of October, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Democrat challenger Jaime Harrison raised more than $22 million, The Hill reports.
According to the candidates’ most recent Federal Election Commission filings, Harrison brought in nearly $22.1 million, which is more than twice as much as incumbent Graham raised between Oct. 1-14.
This haul of cash comes on the heels of Harrison’s record-breaking $57 million he fundraised in the third quarter of 2020.
Campaign filings indicate Graham brought in $9 million in that two-week time frame, which gives him the second highest fundraising total for a Senate candidate in the fundraising period.
Candidates have already spent what they brought in. Harrison spent $26.6 million, according to records. Graham dropped about $16.5 million.
Harrison, who raised close to $100 million this year, has less than $3.5 million to spend as the election nears.
According to The Hill, Harrison’s campaign manager Zack Carroll wrote in a memo to supporters that the campaign needs to raise $10 million in the final stretch in order “to match Republican spending” ahead of Election Day.
“To make history on Election Day and defeat Lindsey Graham, our fundraising has to pick up so we can match Mitch McConnell,” Carroll wrote, calling out GOP Senate majority leader.
Graham has more cash on hand with $7.3 million in his account, according to records.
Recent polling shows the South Carolina race is close. A Morning Consult poll released on Thursday found Harrison leading Graham by a 2-point margin. Last week, a poll from The New York Times and Siena College indicated Graham was ahead of his challenger by 6 points.
South Carolina hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in more than 20 years, according to The Hill.
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