Lt. Gov. John Fetterman said he raised more than $3.9 million for his U.S. Senate bid in the first fundraising quarter of 2021.
Mr. Fetterman, the former mayor of Braddock, said Thursday that he's received 140,000 contributions in the first months of the race and has raised a higher total than any candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania ever has.
Mr. Fetterman is pursuing the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat up for election next year. The incumbent, Republican Pat Toomey, is not seeking re-election.
State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, D-Philadelphia, has not said anything about his fundraising haul yet.
Reports for the first quarter -- which cover fundraising from Jan. 1 to the close of books this past Wednesday -- are due to the Federal Election Commission by April 15.
The Fetterman campaign said 99 percent of their contributions came from donations under $200, and that more than 90,000 people in total donated to the campaign.
"This election may be the most important race in the country in 2022,” said Rebecca Katz, a senior adviser for the campaign, in a statement. “That’s why we are doing the work now to build up the broad coalition, infrastructure, and resources we will need to not only flip this U.S. Senate seat, but help Democrats across Pennsylvania win up and down the ballot in what could be a very tough year.”
Julian Routh: jrouth@post-gazette.com, 412-263-1952, Twitter@julianrouth.
First Published: April 1, 2021, 1:12 p.m.