Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Governor race: Shapiro & White lead Q1 fundraising
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} have been raised by the candidates for Governor of Pennsylvania this election cycle.
Democrat Josh Shapiro, who’s working unopposed, has $12 million more money available than all 9 Republican candidates mixed.
Shapiro has collected greater than $4.5 million within the first three months of the 12 months and his conflict chest at present sits at $16 million as he prepares for a Republican opponent this fall.
Main the Republicans is Delaware County businessman Dave White, who raised $1.7 million within the first quarter. White has spent a good portion of that cash with solely $171,000 nonetheless available. In accordance with his monetary information, White has spent $3.5 million on tv advertisements and $151,729 on digital media campaigns.
White has raised $588,800 in political committee donations over $250, essentially the most among the many Republican candidates. He’s loaned the marketing campaign $4 million since Sept. 2021, together with $1 million in March 2022.
Jake Corman, who briefly dropped out of the race and re-entered earlier this month, raised almost $600,000 within the first three months of the 12 months. Corman has spent almost $1.6 million on tv commercials and in addition paid KA Consulting $86,760 for “normal political consulting,” polling, and analysis.
William McSwain has essentially the most money available among the many Republicans with about $1.7 million and raised the second-most amongst Republicans.
Doug Mastriano and Nche Zama are the one candidates with no singular donations of over $250 from political committees of their monetary report from the primary quarter.
5 candidates (Charlie Gerow, White, Zama, Joe Gale, and Melissa Hart) now have lower than $200,000 money available. Gale and Hart every have lower than $35,000 available.
Every candidate’s particular person monetary report might be discovered by clicking their identify beneath.
Candidate
Occasion
Complete Q1 contributions
Money available
Donations From Political Committees Over $250
Josh Shapiro
Democrat
4,529,178.86
16,006,342.43
1,030,732.06
William McSwain
Republican
$1,433,188.05
1,699,534.62
8,000.00
Doug Mastriano
Republican
372,554.80
1,091,369.64
$0
Lou Barletta
Republican
430,745.48
356,291.95
12,451.40
Jake Corman
Republican
589,627.08
270,846.18
116,500.00
Charlie Gerow
Republican
46,907.00
179,072.70
7,000.00
Dave White
Republican
1,790,895.21
171,308.09
588,500.00
Nche Zama
Republican
35,448.00
134,455.13
$0
Joe Gale
Republican
58,495.85
33,132.81
669.85
Melissa Hart
Republican
34,310.00
7,200.00
1,500.00
Within the U.S. Senate races, John Fetterman and Dave McCormick are among the many prime fundraisers.
Nexstar Media Inc. will host an unique multi-market prime time debate between the Republican Occasion candidates for Governor of Pennsylvania.
The candidates will debate for one hour on Wednesday, April 27 at 8 p.m. and can each air and live-stream in 10 markets throughout Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Maryland, reaching 9.8 million TV and streaming households in each county of the Keystone State.
All candidates on the poll who meet eligibility standards might be invited to take part. Candidates who’ve dedicated to attend embrace: Lou Barletta, Doug Mastriano, Invoice McSwain, and Dave White.
WHTM abc27 Information anchor and Capitol Bureau Reporter Dennis Owens and WPXI Anchor Lisa Sylvester will co-host the talk from the abc27 studio in Harrisburg.
The first election for U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania is scheduled to happen on Might 17. Voters should register to vote by Might 2.