By Jason Hancock
Hawley, who is seeking his second term in the Senate, reported raising $3 million. An independent political action committee supporting his re-election, Show Me Strong, raised a little under $1 million.
But Hawley ended the quarter with more cash on hand than his Democratic rival, finishing September with $2.6 million for the campaign’s homestretch compared with $1.5 million for Kunce.
Jared Young, who successfully petitioned to form the Better Party for his Senate run, raised $14,860.
Every public poll of the race has shown Hawley in the lead, with most putting the Republican up by double digits. And Missouri hasn’t elected a Democrat to statewide office since 2018.
But Kunce has consistently outraised Hawley, and as the campaign enters its final weeks, he’s continued to go toe-to-toe with in television ad spending. Since the August primary, Kunce’s campaign has spent $6 million on TV ads hammering the Republican and trumpeting Kunce’s populist message.
Hawley’s campaign has spent $3.9 million on ads during that time, with Show Me Strong chipping in roughly $1.9 million.
Tuesday’s disclosure reports filed with the Federal Election Commission also reveal Hawley’s campaign more than doubled its spending on private jet travel, with nearly $140,000 worth of expenditures on chartered flights since the beginning of August.
That compares to $132,000 during the first six months of the year.
Hawley made criticism of former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s use of private planes to travel the state a key attack line during his successful 2018 campaign, arguing it demonstrated the Democratic incumbent was out of touch with her constituents.
The criticism was turned back on him when he was recorded earlier this month boarding a Gulfstream IV SP to hopscotch the state for campaign rallies with Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker.
His latest disclosure form shows eight expenditures for chartered flights, including nearly $30,000 on Sept. 19.
Kunce and Hawley are scheduled to debate Oct 31 on Missouri Nexstar stations, including KTVI/KPLR-St. Louis, WDAF-Kansas City, KRBK-Springfield and KSN-Joplin and their digital platforms.
9 comments:
Such a shame that he will lose by 10 points.
Whether or not Hawley wins, I hope that Missourians will eventually realize that Hawley really doesn't care. All he does is grift and so far hasn't done anything beneficial to Missouri.
I for one am quite pleased that a truly honorable and capable candidate has FINALLY arrived. Magat led government has proven to be nothing more than a magat race to the top to please the orange master while the citizenry of missouri waits for true and respectable leadership. Hawly and others like him have already sold their pathetic souls to the devil (trump) and are useless caricatures of deplorable opportunistic puppets who, like their master, don't give a damn about you or I.
Hawley is not Missouri!!
I hope Dave Bautista tells us what he thinks of Josh Hawley sometime.
What Bautista thought about Trump: "He wears more makeup than Dolly Parton!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1LMC9sPVWY
Hawley for the WIN !!!!
4:46, only thing Hawley might win is a foot race.
Harris $652 million raised Trump $340 million July-September raised 🤣 you tell me who’s got deep pockets. Those dems sure got a lot of money for such a poor little guy party. Let them keep pandering to the poor folks, gotta keep them in their place…
111, what a dumbass, the Democratic fund raising has had astronomical success, mainly from $10 donors. 111, your orange bastard has not 2 billionaires footing his bills, but no less than 3 billionaires kissing his orange fat posterior to buy favors from the likes of a mafia king. And this felon actually deserves your vote? Not
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