Here are the Q2 finance reports, here are the Q3 finance reports, here are the January 2018 finance reports, and here’s the FEC summary page for Democratic Congressional candidates in Texas. Let’s get to it.
Todd Litton – CD02
Lori Burch – CD03
Sam Johnson – CD03
Jana Sanchez – CD06
Ruby Faye Wooldridge – CD06
Lizzie Fletcher – CD07
Laura Moser – CD07
Mike Siegel – CD10
Tawana Cadien – CD10
Joseph Kopser – CD21
Mary Wilson – CD21
Letitia Plummer – CD22
Sri Kulkarni – CD22
Gina Ortiz Jones – CD23
Rick Trevino – CD23
Jan McDowell – CD24
Christopher Perri – CD25
Julie Oliver – CD25
MJ Hegar – CD31
Christine Mann – CD31
Colin Allred – CD32
Lillian Salerno – CD32
Dayna Steele – CD36
Dist Name Raised Spent Loans On Hand
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02 Litton 546,503 304,139 0 242,363
03 Burch 104,700 116,639 25,649 14,085
03 Johnson 62,473 59,143 3,100 6,490
06 Sanchez 241,893 188,313 0 56,456
06 Woolridge 75,440 45,016 15,000 47,708
07 Fletcher 1,261,314 874,619 0 391,899
07 Moser 1,067,837 975,659 0 92,177
10 Siegel 80,319 65,496 5,000 19,823
10 Cadien
21 Kopser 1,100,451 846,895 25,000 278,556
21 Wilson 44,772 51,041 26,653 20,384
22 Plummer 108,732 99,153 0 9,578
22 Kulkarni 178,925 158,369 35,510 56,067
23 Ortiz Jones 1,025,194 703,481 0 321,713
23 Trevino 16,892 20,416 3,285 3,915
24 McDowell 33,452 16,100 0 17,470
25 Perri 139,016 133,443 24,890 30,603
25 Oliver 78,841 37,812 3,125 40,860
31 Hegar 458,085 316,854 0 141,240
31 Mann 56,814 58,856 2,276 0
32 Allred 828,565 608,938 25,000 219,626
32 Salerno 596,406 439,384 0 157,022
36 Steele 294,891 216,030 1,231 80,061
For comparison purposes, here’s what the 2008 cycle fundraising numbers looked like for Texas Democrats. Remember, those numbers are all the way through November, and nearly everyone in the top part of the list was an incumbent. Daily Kos has some of the same numbers I have – they picked a slightly different set of races to focus on – as well as the comparable totals for Republicans. Note that in several races, at least one Democratic candidate has outraised the Republican competition, either overall or in Q1 2018. This is yet another way of saying we’ve never seen anything like this cycle before.
As of this writing, Tawana Cadien had not filed her Q1 report. Christine Mann’s report showed a negative cash balance; I have chosen to represent that as a loan owed by the campaign. Everything else is up to date.
I continue to be blown away by the amount of money raised by these candidates. Already there are five who have exceeded one million dollars raised – Alex Triantaphyllis, who did not make the runoff in CD07, had topped the $1 million mark as of March – with Colin Allred sure to follow, and Todd Litton and MJ Hegar on track if Hegar wins her runoff. In some ways, I’m most impressed by the almost $300K raised by Dayna Steele, who has the advantage of being a well-known radio DJ and the disadvantage of running in a 70%+ Trump district. When was the last time you saw a non-self-funder do that? I’ll be very interested to see how the eventual nominees in the districts that are lower on the national priority lists do going forward. How can you ignore a CD06 or a CD22 if the candidates there keep raking it in? It will also be interesting to see what happens in CD21 going forward if the runoff winner is not big raiser Joseph Kopser but Mary Wilson instead. Does she inherit the effort that had been earmarked for CD21, or do those resources get deployed elsewhere, not necessarily in Texas?
Republican candidates have been raising a lot of money as well, and national groups are pouring in more, with CDs 07 and 23 their targets so far. We may see more districts added to their must-protect list, or they may make a decision to cut back in some places to try to save others. It’s worth keeping an eye on.