{"id":11344,"date":"2025-07-16T02:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-raked-in-money-in-the-michigan-and-illinois-senate-races\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T02:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:31:30","slug":"democrats-raked-in-money-in-the-michigan-and-illinois-senate-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-raked-in-money-in-the-michigan-and-illinois-senate-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats raked in money in the Michigan and Illinois Senate races"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democrats are set to duke it out in expensive open-seat primaries in Michigan and Illinois.<\/p>\n

In the race to succeed retiring Sen. Gary Peters in Michigan, State Sen. Mallory McMorrow raked in about $2.1 million in contributions and spent roughly $1.3 million, leaving her with about $827,000 cash on hand. Rep. Haley Stevens raised a total of $2.8 million, of which $1.5 million was transferred from her House campaign. Stevens reported about $2 million cash on hand. And former Wayne County health official Abdul El-Sayed raised about $1.8 million and had $1.1 million cash on hand.<\/p>\n

Former Michigan State House Speaker Joe Tate lagged behind the other Democratic candidates, with about $193,000 raised and about $70,000 cash on hand.<\/p>\n

On the GOP side, former Rep. Mike Rogers, whom national Republicans have rallied behind, raised about $745,000 through his Senate account and about $779,000 through his joint fundraising committee, \u201cTeam Rogers.\u201d Rogers had about $1.1 million cash on hand in his Senate account at the end of the quarter. He was narrowly outraised by Rep. Bill Huizenga, who\u2019s been weighing a bid, who raised about $747,000 into his House campaign account and had roughly $1.4 million cash on hand.<\/p>\n

Republicans see Michigan as a top pickup opportunity in next year\u2019s midterm elections. President Donald Trump won the state last year even as Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin defeated Rogers for an open Senate seat.<\/p>\n

Over in Illinois, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi led the pack in the brewing primary to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin.<\/p>\n

He raised about $2.3 million in contributions through his \u201cRaja for Illinois\u201d committee and transferred $10.2 million from his House account. He\u2019s got $11.8 million cash on hand for what\u2019s expected to be a hotly contested primary in the deep-blue seat where the Democratic primary winner is heavily favored in the general election.<\/p>\n

Rep. Robin Kelly raised a total of $2.5 million, of which about $2.2 million was transferred from her House campaign account. Kelly finished the quarter with $2.2 million cash on hand. Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton raised about $1.1 million and had about $666,000 cash on hand at the end of the quarter. Illinois\u2019 billionaire governor J.B. Pritzker is expected to play a role in backing her campaign too.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrats are set to duke it out in expensive open-seat primaries in Michigan and Illinois. In the race to succeed retiring Sen. Gary Peters in Michigan, State Sen. Mallory McMorrow raked in about $2.1 million in contributions and spent roughly $1.3 million, leaving her with about $827,000 cash on hand. Rep. Haley Stevens raised a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}