{"id":639128,"date":"2018-10-27T06:45:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=639128"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:40:54","slug":"torres-small-again-raises-big-money-in-2nd-congressional-district-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/10\/torres-small-again-raises-big-money-in-2nd-congressional-district-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres Small again raises big money in 2nd Congressional District race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_589823\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-589823\" src=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Torres-Small-Xochitl-771x516.jpg\" alt=\"Xochitl Torres Small\" width=\"771\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Torres-Small-Xochitl.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Torres-Small-Xochitl-336x225.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Torres-Small-Xochitl-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Courtesy photo<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xochitl Torres Small<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congressional candidate Xochitl Torres Small once again dominated fundraising in the federal races, according to the latest campaign finance reports, covering Oct. 1 to Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat seeking the 2nd Congressional District seat reported raising nearly $950,000 in those 17 days. The hefty campaign finance haul brought the water attorney\u2019s total tally to over $3.8 million for the open congressional seat.<\/p>\n<p>Her opponent, Republican State Rep. Yvette Herrell, raised over $150,000 in the same time period, and a total of $1.2 million.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/2018\/10\/26\/torres-small-raises-big-money-once-again-in-2nd-congressional-district-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Mexico Political Report<\/a>,\u00a0a nonprofit news organization\u00a0focused on promoting a greater public understanding of politics and policy in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Torres Small outspent Herrell, spending over $1 million to Herrell\u2019s nearly $165,000.<\/p>\n<p>She also finished with more cash-on-hand, with just over $1 million in the bank compared to Herrell\u2019s $400,000.<\/p>\n<p>Outside groups have spent millions on the race. Herrell\u2019s detractors have spent $2.8 million, and opponents of Torres Small, $1.2 million, according to campaign finance tracking website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/races\/outside-spending?cycle=2018&amp;id=NM02&amp;spec=N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenSecrets<\/a>. This includes money spent in the primaries, where Herrell faced a tougher races than Torres Small.<\/p>\n<h3>U.S. Senate<\/h3>\n<p>In the race for U.S. Senate, incumbent Martin Heinrich continued to pace the field, raising nearly $245,000 and spending over $1.3 million. The Democrat still had nearly $1.3 million cash-on-hand.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Mick Rich reported raising over $80,000, including $50,000 he personally loaned his campaign. The contractor still has $115,000 for the final weeks of campaigning after spending just under $125,000. In all, Rich has loaned his campaign $235,500 this campaign out of the $900,000 he raised total.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Gary Johnson, a former governor, raised over $110,000. Like Rich, he loaned his campaign $50,000. Johnson has loaned his campaign $107,000 out of the over $345,000 that he raised for the campaign. After spending $120,000, Johnson had over $55,000 in campaign cash left.<\/p>\n<h3>Other races<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the 1st Congressional District race, Deb Haaland finished with $143,000 cash-on-hand after raising $170,000 and spending $440,000.<\/p>\n<p>Her Republican opponent, former sState Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones, raised under $25,000 and spent over $35,000, finishing with just $30,000 cash-on-hand.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian Lloyd Princeton raised and spent under $1,000 and finished with $625 cash-on-hand.<\/p>\n<p>In the 3rd Congressional District, incumbent Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n raised $70,000 and spent nearly $245,000, finishing the period with $565,000 in his campaign coffers.<\/p>\n<p>His Republican opponent, Jerald Steve McFall, has still failed to file campaign finance reports, but finished with just over $1,000 after raising $17.76 and spending $550.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrat seeking the 2nd Congressional District seat reported raising nearly $950,000 in 17 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2238,219,705,3658,3664],"class_list":["post-639128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2018-election","tag-2nd-congressional-district","tag-money-in-politics","tag-xochitl-torres-small","tag-yvette-herrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639133,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639128\/revisions\/639133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}