JD Vance's Campaign Fundraising Is Down to Its Bootstraps

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The JD Vance campaign is broke.

That’s the key takeaway from Federal Election Commission filings this week, which show that between mid-April and the end of June, the Vance team raised a million dollars, spent more than that, and is a quarter of a million dollars in the hole with just four months until election day.

It’s something of a head-scratcher from a candidate with national name recognition, who won the GOP primary for a critical Senate seat smack in the middle of the fundraising period.
But the Vance campaign has never been a major money draw.

Over the first three months of the year, the campaign directly raised $38,000, total, and got so close to bottoming out its cash reserves that in late March Vance personally floated himself a $600,000 bridge loan.

Fortunes turned with Trump’s endorsement in April, and Vance caught a windfall heading into the May 3 primary, but he hasn’t seemed able to translate the win into financial support. Eight weeks later, the campaign was in the red, reporting about $628,000 in the bank and $883,000 in debt—a deficit of more than $250,000.

The Vance campaign declined to comment.

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Go Tim Ryan!