Democratic Senate candidates swamp GOP rivals in fundraising

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In today’s edition, Bridget Bowman and Ben Kamisar sift through a new batch of Senate fundraising reports. Plus, Kristen Welker wraps up another week of fiery debates.

Democratic candidates across more than a dozen competitive Senate races raised a combined $253 million from July through September, more than four times the $56 million raised by GOP candidates in those races, according to new fundraising reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

During the third quarter, Democratic candidates in these contests spent a combined $300 million, while Republicans spent nearly $84 million. Heading into the final month of the election, Democratic candidates had $87 million on hand compared to $56 million for the Republicans.

Republicans were outraised by their Democratic or independent opponents in all but one of the 15 races the NBC News Decision Desk rates as competitive, with Minnesota as the only exception. (Megan Brand has more today on why Republicans think former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya could have an opening there against Democratic Lt. Gov. Penny Flanagan.)

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