First look: Republican Tiffany Smiley raises $6M for Washington Senate bid
Tiffany Smiley, the Republican challenging Democratic Sen. Patty Murray in Washington State, has raised $6 million in the third quarter, and has $2.5 million in cash on hand, Axios has learned.Republicans have insisted all year that the Senate contest in Washington, typically a bastion of blue, could be a sleeper race. Smiley could make it competitive with Murray, a five-term senator, if the money came in.
With her $6 million haul, more than double the $2.6 million she raised in the second quarter, Smiley can make the case to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund that she's within striking distance. “I am blown away and humbled by the groundswell of support we have received, and I am so thankful to my team and our grassroots volunteers for all the hard work they have poured into this campaign,” Smiley said.At the end of July, Murray had $6.6 million cash on hand, after raising $2.6 million from April through June.poll earlier this month gave Murray a 9-point lead and had her at 51%, above the even-water mark, an important metric for any incumbent.
Murray has not released her Q3 totals, but had raised a total of $14 million at the end of the last filing period., as Democrats tried to define her early as a foe of reproductive rights and a tool of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Democratic strategists were careful not to say publicly that Murray might be vulnerable, but they also didn’t want to be caught sleeping.
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