{"id":14477,"date":"2025-10-15T22:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-cassidy-maintains-cash-advantage-over-his-gop-challengers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:47:51","slug":"bill-cassidy-maintains-cash-advantage-over-his-gop-challengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-cassidy-maintains-cash-advantage-over-his-gop-challengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cassidy maintains cash advantage over his GOP challengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) once again raised more money from donors than his challengers did last quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, who faces several primary challengers after his past criticism of President Donald Trump, raised $1.3 million between July and September and reported $9.5 million in the bank for his campaign committee.<\/p>\n<p>That narrowly exceeded one challenger, state Sen. Blake Miguez, who brought in $1.2 million over the same period and reported $2.5 million in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>State Treasurer John Fleming reported raising $2.2 million, but almost all of that came from a personal loan of more than $2.1 million. Fleming, who had also loaned his campaign money in previous quarters, paid back a $2 million loan to himself in July, so on net, he added only $125,000 in personal funds to his campaign over the quarter, while bringing in a bit shy of $100,000 from donors. Fleming\u2019s campaign reported just over $2 million cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has not endorsed in the race, which could be a test of whether Republican voters can back candidates \u2014 in this case, a two-term incumbent senator \u2014 who sometimes break from the president. Cassidy most notably voted to remove Trump from office at his 2021 impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) once again raised more money from donors than his challengers did last quarter. Cassidy, who faces several primary challengers after his past criticism of President Donald Trump, raised $1.3 million between July and September and reported $9.5 million in the bank for his campaign committee. That narrowly exceeded one challenger, state [&hellip;]<\/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-14477","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\/14477","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=14477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}