Republican U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson raised just under $300,000 from April 1 to May 14 and had $712,476.63 on hand to spend in the final three weeks of the primary race.
Wilson released the summary pages from her May 14 Federal Election Commission report, which you can view by clicking here. Her primary opponent, Steve Pearce, meanwhile, did not respond to a request to release his FEC report.
While Wilson raised $291,106.48 during the reporting period – with all but $46,000 coming from individuals, and the rest coming from political committees – the Pearce campaign said it raised $357,000 but provided no additional information, including whether any of that was a loan.
The Pearce campaign also did not release the all-important figure: how much cash it had on hand on May 14. At the start of April, Wilson had $1.2 million on hand, while Pearce had $854,164.
This is the first fundraising quarter in which Pearce out-raised Wilson. But his campaign didn’t release information about how much it spent during the reporting period. Wilson’s campaign spent $776,068.46.
Wilson had raised almost $2.4 million for the primary as of May 14, and had received contributions from 4,582 New Mexicans, which accounts for more than 85 percent of her individual contributions.
“We’re very pleased with the amount of support we continue to receive from New Mexicans,” Wilson’s campaign manager, Chris Collins, said in a news release. “We are in an excellent financial position heading into the final two weeks of the campaign.”
While U.S. House fundraising reports are filed and can be viewed online, Senate reports are mailed in and not as accessible.
The Pearce campaign also did not release the all-important figure: how much cash it had on hand on May 14. At the start of April,