Democrats doing well in some states

 NBC News -  Third-quarter fundraising reports aren’t due to the FEC until Oct. 15, so we can’t verify these fundraising numbers until we see those filings (which is important to keep in mind because campaigns sometimes exaggerate their hauls in news releases). But candidates use this period between the end of the quarter and the filing deadline to crow about their big numbers and grab headlines. 

 Texas: One of the most eye-popping sums came from Democrat James Talarico, a state legislator, who announced his campaign had raised $6.2 million in just three weeks, with more than 125,000 individual donors who largely made donations of $100 or less. Talarico said in a statement, “We’re underdogs in this fight against billionaire mega-donors and their puppet politicians, but more than one hundred thousand people have answered the call to build a new kind of politics.”

 

Talarcio’s chief rival in the Democratic Senate primary, former Rep. Colin Allred, announced that his campaign had raised $4.1 million in the third fundraising quarter, with over 100,000 donations that averaged $32 each. Allred’s campaign manager, Dan Morrocco, also described the campaign as “powered by working people,” calling it “a grassroots movement with real staying power.” 

 

Maine: In Maine, a top target for Democrats, oyster farmer and military veteran Graham Platner announced a $3.2 million haul, while former congressional staffer Jordan Wood said he raised $3 million in the third quarter. (Wood’s campaign said that does not include any new loans from the candidate himself, after he loaned his campaign $250,000 in the second quarter, though the third quarter haul includes a $3,500 donation from Wood.)

Michigan: Democrats are also gearing up for a competitive primary in Michigan between Rep. Haley Stevens, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and progressive physician Abdul El-Sayed. Stevens and El-Sayed have not announced their third quarter hauls yet, but McMorrow announced that her campaign had raised more than $1.6 million. That’s less than the $2.1 million she raised in the second quarter, but her campaign did tout that the third quarter haul included more than 26,000 individual donors, with the vast majority of donations $100 or less.