Money is a big part of the Governor’s race in Georgia and following the September 30th filing deadline, it’s clear people from Georgia and other places around the country are using the almighty dollar to weigh in.
The Abrams campaign announced Friday that the team raised $10.2 million in the last fundraising period, calling the total ‘electrifying’ as the number broke the record for Democrat candidates for Governor in Georgia. The total funds raised since campaign inception for both Abarams and Kemp also surpassed Governor Nathan Deal’s fundraising efforts from 2014 when he raised $14 million.
From the Abrams press release sent Friday:
The Abrams campaign begins the final month of the election cycle with $4.9M cash on hand – a massive war chest that will be used to communicate with voters, organize supporters, and finance a robust Get Out The Vote operation in every corner of the state.
“Since the beginning of this campaign, Stacey Abrams has been talking with Georgians from all walks of life in all 159 counties. Our campaign has invested in reaching out to voters in every community, which is why we are seeing tremendous enthusiasm for Stacey Abrams’ bold vision for this state,” said Campaign Manager Lauren Groh-Wargo. “Fueled by small-dollar contributions from across the diverse communities of Georgia, our campaign is in a powerful position to capitalize on the energy of the voters and their hunger for a candidate who hears them and speaks to the issues they care about most.”
Key stats:
- $16.25 million total raised this campaign cycle
- 38,000 Georgians contributed, the overwhelming majority giving less than $100 this campaign cycle
- $10.2 million raised during the reporting period
- $2.3 million collected in donations of less than $100 during the reporting period
The Georgia Republican Party said Friday that the Kemp campaign outraised Abrams by over a million dollars. The press release sent by the GOP said, “Stacey Abrams released her quarterly report, disclosing 64% of her donors were from outside the state of Georgia. Not only did Brian Kemp out-raise Abrams by more than a million dollars, 95% of his campaign contributions were from Georgia donors.”
As of Friday evening, the Kemp campaign had not issued a press release on the fundraising details.
Both candidates have visited every county in Georgia, but Abrams recently returned from a fundraising and campaign trip in California.
Connie LeChot
October 6, 2018 at 2:14 pm
Thank you for your WORK to see things are done WRIGHT…. PLEASE contact me sometime. I am not from here I live here now..
Bill Smith
October 8, 2018 at 9:31 pm
Wright? I think you mean RIGHT.
John DeBona
October 8, 2018 at 12:20 am
If 38000 donors were the majority of her donations with most of them donating less than 100 dollars, that means less than 3.8 million dollars were donated by these backers! Who donated the other millions?????
Richard Klinesmith
October 8, 2018 at 11:34 am
Of course she needs to get funding outside of Ga. because no one wants to back a leftists in this great state. This state will crumble if she is elected. Just say no to the leftists back Kemp.!!!!!!!!
Bill Smith
October 8, 2018 at 9:37 pm
And just what FACTS do you have she’s a “leftist” and the state will crumble? None? Just more entitled white outrage that a woman, and a BLACK woman at that, just may become governor. I would take her over the good old white boy network that’s been turning the state into a laughing stock with their backward, racist, homophobic and islamophobic nonsense. Repubs are trying to turn back the clock to the ’50s. The 1850s. No thanks. I’ll be voting Democrat in November.
David P Anderson
October 11, 2018 at 3:32 pm
Oh God no, not the 1850’s. That’s when the Democrats were running this state. Over the last 15 years or so, since the Republicans took over the state, the “good old white boy” network has done a pretty good job of pulling the state off of the bottom of just about every “quality of life” ranking. There is a lot more work that needs to be done, but after 140 years of Democrat control, we are making good progress.