New campaign finance filings show Gov. Kelly Ayotte has collected six times as much money as Democratic rival Cinde Warmington, and has $2 million left to spend as the election season ramps up.
The reports show Ayotte has raised about $3.7 million overall, and $1.6 million so far this year.
Warmington, meanwhile, collected $635,000 overall, with almost all the money coming since January.
The reports show Ayotte is raising money at about the same pace as she did when she won the election two years ago after running in a contested primary.
Warmington, who is running unopposed in the Democratic primary, is meanwhile collecting money at a slower clip than she did two years ago, when she lost in the Democratic primary.
Her campaign is emphasizing that almost all of Warmington’s financial support comes from within New Hampshire, and that most of her donors give less than $100.
But the reports also show that Warmington’s overall fundraising lags well behind that of her party’s last two nominees for governor by this point in the campaign.
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