Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s campaign says it raised more than $8.5 million during the September filing period, including more than $2.6 million for her reelection campaign and more than $5.9 million for the New York State Democratic Party.<\/p>\n
The figures were announced Tuesday in a press release from Friends for Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n
According to the campaign, Friends for Kathy Hochul ended the filing period with more than $18.5 million in cash on hand, while the New York State Democratic Party had more than $15 million.<\/p>\n
Together, the campaign and state Democratic Party had more than $33 million in cash on hand, according to Friends for Kathy Hochul. The campaign characterized that figure as the \u201cmost ever at this point in the election cycle in party history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friends for Kathy Hochul also said it received contributions from a record 17,800 individual donors, more than four times the number of donors it reported for the same period in 2022.<\/p>\n
The average online contribution was $22.38, according to the campaign.<\/p>\n
The governor\u2019s campaign said it received grassroots donations from all 62 counties in New York, with a majority of its contributions coming from New Yorkers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks to New Yorkers from all 62 counties standing with us for the fourth filing period in a row, Governor Hochul\u2019s campaign and the state Democratic Party are headed into the final stretch of this race with unprecedented firepower,\u201d Friends for Kathy Hochul Campaign Manager Preston Elliott said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s campaign says it raised more than $8.5 million during the September filing period, including more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,25,576,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,27,200],"class_list":["post-359645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-erica-brosnan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}