The AP reports that Walz has $1M to defend seat in Minn.'s 1st Dist:
U.S. Rep. Tim Walz has slightly more than $1 million to spend during the final weeks of his re-election bid in southern Minnesota's 1st District.
The Democrat's campaign says he had $1.08 million in the bank at the end of September, after raising $470,000 from late August through the end of September.
Walz faces a challenge from Republican Brian Davis, a Mayo Clinic doctor.
Davis campaign manager Mike Spellings says the campaign's third-quarter numbers aren't immediately available. The reporting deadline is next Wednesday.
Davis has lagged Walz in fundraising.
Talking to a Walz finance staffer, we learned that the $470,000 figure is for the entire quarter beginning July 1 and ending on September 30. That makes the swag for the truncated October quarterly reporting period ( 8/21 to 9/31) come out at around $220,000. Walz collected $248,000 in campaign contributions from July 1 until August 20.
Davis received $95,000 from contributors in the pre-primary period, while re-loaning his campaign $124,000. Loaning his committee the $124,000 it had paid back to him allowed him to claim $311,000 cash on hand at the end of September.
To put this in perspective with the 2006 race, Tim Walz reported getting $329,982.47, while Gutknecht gathered $327,026. The former congressman had $790,761.29 cash in hand on September 30, 2006, while Walz had $219,761.58.
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